Nicole

You spend the better part of a church service scrutinizing the priest’s vestments/a particularly beautiful Easter dress/insert-other-garment-here, looking for seam lines and trying to figure out how they were put together.

Thanks, Nicole. I have it set aside. With Liberty I am a bit nervous to proceed without knowing for sure. With how fine it is, I don’t want to puncture the fabric too many times if I am wrong. I feel so out of practice.

When you’re looking at clothing in a Target catalogue and because the dress is made in a dark background floral you go looking all over the page for the line drawing so you can see the details of the dress!

Just found your Part 2. 🙂 I noticed you made the smaller size so I wonder if this is significant to the larger sizes.

Have you or anyone else made it in the larger sizes yet? What did you do?

Thanks for the link, Nicole. I did look at that last night but I only saw the Part 1 with the back bodice. Do you have the link to Part 2? I couldn’t find it on the blog. I have that back part finished but am wondering about the two notches on the pattern (and dot alignment) vs three notches in the illustrations and different dot alignment. I…[Read more]

Does anyone have suggestions for irons? I had a Rowenta for the last 4.5 years and for the last, really, 1.5+ years it’s been leaking. The last week it has gotten worse—so much so, I am worried it would become a fire hazard.

So, I’m in the market for a new iron. I’d love a tiny, cordless one, but I’m open to ideas/pricing!

I hear you @cybele727 One of the things I dislike about my home printed patterns is that I can’t see through the paper, so matching stripes and patterned fabric is much harder. Thus I end up tracing the pattern anyway. My interfacing tracings are flexible, translucent and hold up to being pinned over and over. Find me printer paper like that and…[Read more]

Last photo of the pattern piece.

Last photo of the pattern piece.

Last photo of the pattern piece.

Here are the photos of the pattern and pattern instructions so hopefully it will make more sense what I’m trying to explain.

Here are the photos of the pattern and pattern instructions so hopefully it will make more sense what I’m trying to explain.

Here are some pictures of the pattern pages.

In light of Todd’s blog post about the evolution of paper vs PDF, I wish I could find paper for a laser printer that is pretty thin and considering the volume we print… cheap! When I google translucent paper, it is pretty dear. Regular paper is a touch too stiff. I wish I could find something just a touch heavier than the paper tissue that…[Read more]

I’m afraid I haven’t made this one — hopefully somebody who has will be along soon to chime in!

@mkhs, I too thought the same thing! hahaha….

I recently mooted the idea of a Paris sewing trip to my Mum, Auntie and cousin. I had found this page suggesting some sewing shops, if it’s of any help to you:- http://atelierclaraines.canalblog.com/archives/2012/09/17/25121595.html

Not sewing related, but I had also saved this:- http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/06/top-10-cafes-paris…[Read more]