Nicole

What a good idea, H.

That’s great news, T. So pleased for you and family. Chloe will love the extra attention.

The pattern was rated “advanced”
The truth of it may be enhanced
The instructions were vague

The invitation says “under the sea”
I’m not sure it’s intended for me.
But I’ll dress as a fish
And I’ll come if I wish
With my date, The Anemone

The pattern was rated “advanced”

Hi Kristen, I would be concerned about the sleeves. They are fairly narrow on this top. The combo that Audrey did looks great and would be a good sleeve solution.

@purplevann1 if you really only want to hem t-shirts then my suggestion is to get familiar with a twin needle and woolly nylon. It will be almost free compared to coverstitch, dead easy to change thread colour and saves having to store another machine.
Or buy yourself something shiny 🙂

What about the sailboat pants connected to the front and back centre panels of the seashore sundresss?

Made many pants, Joslyn but not overalls; although lately I have been thinking about adding front/straps to the Sandbox pants. This is one of my favourite pants patterns c/o O + S. Roomy and stylish.

Thank you Sarvi for the link about armholes/sleeves. Great site to visit, and I especially like the writer’s “cardboard models”.

My suggestion for a LHOP dress is the apple picking frock, and/or the Music Box Pinafore combined with the Music Class Blouse. You could also take the Music Class Blouse, and add a skirt to it (something I’ve been…[Read more]

The invitation says “under the sea”
I’m not sure it’s intended for me.
But I’ll dress as a fish
And I’ll come if I wish

The invitation says “under the sea”
I’m not sure it’s intended for me.
But I’ll dress as a fish

@cybele727 Yes, that’s a good suggestion. It’s one that was made by many people at the end of 2014 when we did our customer survey. We’re including a printing guide like this on all of our newer PDF patterns now. But we haven’t gone back to add it to the older patterns.

I know, that doesn’t help you now, but it may in the future…..

Todd,

I have a suggestion for PDFs in the future. Today when I went to print up the badminton skort, I only want to print the pages I need and not the entire thing. When I open it, some of the pattern pieces aren’t “labeled” because they are just small parts of the pattern. So I sit and look and tile between pages to see if 4b is part of my…[Read more]

The invitation says “under the sea”
I’m not sure it’s intended for me.

I’ve just made a long journey home
And the dishwasher’s all full of foam.
The kids squirted Dawn…
In the house and the lawn
They must have their father’s genome

The invitation says “under the sea”

My ten year old cracked me up when she asked if I was going to make a rough draft of a tshirt before I used the good fabric. Sounds better than making a muslin.

Oh and last one:

http://www.lacma.org/ReigningMen#highlights

oh my, that Etro suit. I’m salivating.

Oh, and here’s an interesting discussion of the controversies behind awards for children’s books (who knew?) that I came across while looking for a book on William Blake for my child. I sharply disagree with some parts of this piece but I do like that it asks questions more than it offers pat…[Read more]

I heard this interesting program a while back: http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/483855073/the-problem-with-the-solution

I was struck by the thorn in the heart of it: that our desire to help those close to us who are suffering, our emotional investment in their wellbeing, may be the very thing that makes us unfit to help.

More on the…[Read more]

I had a problem like this too and brought it to my dealer. On mine there’s a switch, in the area below the knife blade, that moves up and down to move a finger underneath the needle. If it’s down by accident it breaks my needles.