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Lucky you, Heidi!! 11 hours-that’s quite a marathon. Hope you had plenty of cuppas to keep you going. I know the Cotton and Steel fabric you mentioned and it should make some lovely stuff. Just finished 3 quilts myself in the last week. All were half completed, and it had become embarrassing that I hadn’t delivered them so a week’s hard work, and…[Read more]

Spent a lovely day sewing with a friend. I hadn’t realised we had spent 11 hours sewing until her husband sent their kids to bed!
I finished the quilt for my husband and did quite a bit on a denim quilt I’m making.
My lovely friends also went through her “scraps” for me. I came home with 5 shopping bags full including the horse print from…[Read more]

Spent a lovely day sewing with a friend. I hadn’t realised we had spent 11 hours sewing until her husband sent their kids to bed!
I finished the quilt for my husband and did quite a bit on a denim quilt I’m making.
My lovely friends also went through her “scraps” for me. I came home with 5 shopping bags full including the horse print from…[Read more]

Pants- see above.

Hi Nancy, congratulations! Lots of wonderful sewing adventures ahead. I have made two coat/pants outfits from pinwale corduroy using the Layette pattern (only sad that it wasn’t “invented” when some of my ‘clients’ were younger). The pinwale is perfect for babies – you’ll remember from your own mothering days that babies wear nappies, singlets,…[Read more]

Ditto Shelley; Good luck Sandra spreading the O + S good news; the patterns are splendid, and this forum is extremely friendly, supportive, and provides practical help for sewists of every level.

Shouldn’t be a problem. I’ve done it with non-stretchy interlock for boys clothes without a problem. Photo here – the stripes are interlock and the teal is jersey: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23557464@N03/13439957983/in/album-72157651963159780/

Enjoy your serger!!

Pinwale corduroy or even denim (for baby jeans) would be perfect!

What a wonderful event to be looking forward to and to sew for! Congratulations!

If any of the seams give you grief try ironing a small scrap of interfacing to stabilise the seam before sewing.

Good luck, they sound very groovy.

A very soft pinwale would be lovely. The pants fit for a long time too.

Congratulations Nancy, I am so excited for you.

I had my last lot made by Cash’s name labels. I think they are international, try Googling them.

Absolutely gorgeous, individually cut and iron-on-able.

http://www.nametapes.com.au

I had my last lot made by Cash’s name labels. I think they are international, try Googling them.

Absolutely gorgeous, individually cut and iron-on-able.

http://www.nametapes.com.au

I had my last lot made by Cash’s name labels. I think they are international, try Googling them.

Absolutely gorgeous, individually cut and iron-on-able.

http://www.nametapes.com.au

Thanks Sarvi! I forgot to mention that we are in San Francisco! It will pretend to be cold during the winter months!

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you! I don’t seem to be able to find my copy of that pattern, but there may be an easier way to determine which printing you have, as there are errata for the first printing.

Do you see this on your pattern piece #4 or are all the labels in order?

“Finally, please note that in the first printing of the…[Read more]

I’m new so if this has already been requested, I apologize… But I didn’t want to read all 24 pages of requests.

I would love to see a pattern for the undergarments that you show on the ‘paper doll’ models. I would also love for the tank to be adapted into a little a-line slip for knits.

I’ve looked into this before, and for the small quantities I wanted, it was a bit more than I wanted to spend to get woven labels. There are lots of great option on Etsy for small batches of printed labels, but in the end I just had my daughter’s name printed a bunch of times onto a fat quarter from Spoonflower, and I cut them out as needed.

I’ve looked into this before, and for the small quantities I wanted, it was a bit more than I wanted to spend to get woven labels. There are lots of great option on Etsy for small batches of printed labels, but in the end I just had my daughter’s name printed a bunch of times onto a fat quarter from Spoonflower, and I cut them out as needed.