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Ooooh, option one sounds great! I would love that! Yes yes!

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I am positively DROOLING over the new Lisette fabric (which is funny, because I wasn’t super into the Aussie only fabrics…) I want 10 different ones, and 9 of them for selfish mommy sewing!

I sprang for the Chambray just now, because I needed it, but I will not be able to buy any more till next Friday, and the rest has to wait 2 weeks after that! Please my friends, keep fingers crossed it isn’t all sold out by then lol. I have my entire Spring wardrobe planned around it (after selecting all the patterns and having no idea what to make them up in)

Also, I would be happy to pick any up for my over seas friends, just let me know.

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I have no way to check but I must have had some kind of knot in it then… I will be extra careful next time (I considered picking it out and starting over… But I was on a deadline!)

I need to put the pics on the Flickr pool… I actually have a backlog of projects I keep forgetting to add :p

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Oh, to clarify, when I pulled the ends, nothing happened. It gathers maybe half an inch at the end, but nothing after that. I looked down the length to see if stitched were caught or puckered and saw nothing. This happened on both the tutus I just made (but even with that hiccup, I had 2 tutus done in under an hour each)

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I couldn’t see any spots where it was catching, I did loosen the tension (only to 7 out of 9, perhaps that was my problem?) and no, I wasn’t pulling at both ends…

I still have no idea what I did wrong, but I pinned it into 8 sections and just hand fed it into the machine to gather. It looks amazing! But, for the future, I’d like to do it the “right” way.

For sure I’ll make the tension even looser next time! I almost want to bang out another tutu to test now lol.

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Erm, my tutu won’t gather.

I did everything right, I just can’t figure out why. I pull and pull and nothing (no tucks or gathers in fabric, nice big basting stitch, no back stitching…)

Any ideas?

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Okay, great! In my mind, that’s how I visualized it, but it never explicitly said (that I noticed, anyway)

If there were no forum filled with awesome women I would have just gone with it, but since I had the opportunity to ask, I thought I would.

Thanks!

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Any chance of an updated list? These are so helpful.

I LOVE the new patterns!

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I sent flickr a message, I hope they will respond (not necessarily directly, but by improving)

I always post 1 or 2 pics, and then put a link to my blog where more pictures can be found (if anyone is interested)

Which reminds me! I have stuff to add to the group!!! But… I don’t want to fiddle with Flickr right now :/

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Thanks for the link! What a nice pattern!

Also, regarding pear shapes, a woman I bumped into at the fabric shop insisted that sewaholic patterns are designed around a bottom heavy figure. I have not made anything from those patterns myself.

As far as my Colette dress? I started the muslin, but I had to abandon it for now, since I am kind of on a deadline with my silk bubbles (the wedding is at the end of May!) and I wanted to make the bubbles first in a quilting cotton before I cut the silk…

So many projects, so little time! But I swear I will sew through the whole O+S line someday, lol

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I have good eyes and pointy tweezers?

But I hate it. Never again!

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I have not made anything for me yet, but I plan to in the near future. I really like the idea of a sewing rotation!

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That was just what all my books say (the ones on garment sewing anyway)

I am so happy! I will never do it again!

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I have a silly question… I hope you don’t mind if I ask here…

If I pretreat my fabric, press it well, and line up the set edges, do I really need to make the cut edges thread perfect? Do I need to pull a thread and cut a nice line? I mean, I understand why you are “supposed to”, but how necessary is it? I can tell if it is on grain when I line up my selvedges… Do you guys pull threads and even out the cut edges every time? Because omitting this would make me so happy!

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I never threw my back out or had a concussion, but I dislocated a rib playing ring around the rosy. It was a nice, quick fix, but it hurt so very bad!

I hear you on the shapeless child thing, but what inspires/motivates me to sew for myself is that my body is so terrible that I can never find anything off the rack that fits. I also hate synthetics. Even high end places (sigh, Anthropologie) have gorgeous wool/cotton/silk pieces with synthetic linings. So I would pay massive amounts for cute clothes, massive amounts to take them in, still itch because of the yucky against me, AND it wouldn’t be as cute as the confections I have in my head? Add in that I actually love sewing, and for me, it’s a no brainer.

I am so jealous of those who can buy things off the rack, but when I do I have a pool of fabric above my bum, enough space up top to fit a second set of breasts, billows at the waist… Not a good look for me lol

ETA: Also, when I grow up I want to be as fast as you all… I still have a set of tea party bloomers to finish before I get to move on…