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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.

Finally, children are a moving target. The…[Read more]

It’s not seasonal, but the best holiday celebration I ever experienced was on the Fourth of July.

Years ago I used to travel constantly for work. One year I found myself in Lincoln, NE over the Fourth of July–which fell in the middle of that week that year and didn’t really allow me to travel home and then back again just to take one day…[Read more]

@Justmejay, that sounds like a caching issue to me. We’ll have @admin look into that for us.

Bravo Shelley

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

I just logged on for a peek
Like I do every other week

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?