Kim

This is a great help!
I made her up the tee in a size 2T with the length of a 4 and it is perfect in a very stretchy cotton/lyrca.
As they are for now I am starting to wonder about a straight 2T for the trousers…. I don’t mind them a wee bit cropped.
Hmmm, thanks gorgeous ladies!

That sounds wonderful Patricia.
What a lovely thread to read.

Our favourite Christmas was only a few years back. We had our breakfast feast at home and then headed to town stopping at lots of friends and family on the way. It culminated in a formal meal at my cousins and then a wonderful evening treasure hunt through the parklands. We were…[Read more]

Lovely!

What fabric are you using?
I have been thinking of you, Trixie is cluster feeding and I wondered if you were having the same scenario, feeding/dreaming of sewing.

Generally, cord is fluffy and bulky enough that it ‘puffs’ up once sewn so it is unlikely to be a problem.

If you are worried you can trim a bee’s whisker off your lining pieces before sewing them to the bodice but then your will have to be aware of that and take care matching side seams and notches.

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Bravo Shelley

::waves::

The past few months have been a bit of a blur, and now there is snow on the ground and Christmas is 38 or 39 days away (per facebook), we’re in the middle of a remodel, and everything that belongs in the room under construction is in my sewing room. I have hire work to do, but all I want to do is selfish sewing, and no room to do it.…[Read more]

::waves::

The past few months have been a bit of a blur, and now there is snow on the ground and Christmas is 38 or 39 days away (per facebook), we’re in the middle of a remodel, and everything that belongs in the room under construction is in my sewing room. I have hire work to do, but all I want to do is selfish sewing, and no room to do it.…[Read more]

Thank you Becky, I am very blessed.

My sewing machine went off for service
Now the cinema dress is my purpose
Undaunted, I’ll make it
Top stitching? I’ll fake it!

I do, Liesl suggested it and it looks so lush.
I was always told the nap *must* run down but I adore the look the other way.
And as Tildy said when I made her this dress https://www.flickr.com/photos/motherof5/9047251334/in/pool-1729774@N23/ you must cuddle me upwards.

Thank you, so helpful.
@stacibennett that is food for thought!

Here you are https://www.flickr.com/photos/motherof5/13504646955/in/set-72157640018176946

Patricia, thank you, that is just what I was after.
So, you went with her height (+ extra) and that was plenty long enough? Her height, 3T, would have been perfect now?