with love Heidi

I also bumped another thread on digital patterns you might like to check out. Sometimes we presume that info is really obvious when it’s actually very obsure!

I found Nicole’s hint of using double sided stickey tape to tape them together very helpful.
In the corners the patterns have letters, you match the letters (ie A-A, B-B, etc) and this helps you get them together correctly. it’s also worth checking the page with a pictures of the pattern pieces just as a final check that they are all together…[Read more]

Mim, maybe put the white in as the canter layers so it enhances the other colours without taking over. Think like undercoating a wall in white and them putting on the colour.

All the Japanese lawn is on special at spotlight from next week, 2nd to 19th Jan 2012. All of it is $8/m if you have a VIP card. I might just have to think about some.

All the Japanese lawn is on special at spotlight from next week, 2nd to 19th Jan 2012. All of it is $8/m if you have a VIP card. I might just have to think about some.

What about using french seams on the side and doing either regular or bound seams for the other seams. I would not recommend french seams for joining the bodice to the skirt as it is a very curved seam and trying to sew it twice would be awful.
Rita a corduroy Tea Party sounds lovely.

What about using french seams on the side and doing either regular or bound seams for the other seams. I would not recommend french seams for joining the bodice to the skirt as it is a very curved seam and trying to sew it twice would be awful.
Rita a corduroy Tea Party sounds lovely.

I tend to sew at about 12mm ie half way between the 10mm and 15mm on my throat plate for a 1/2″ seam allowance. I use the edge of my foot for a 1/4″ seam. If I see a 3/8″, if it is a basting stitch (as it often is for Oliver and S) I just do it at my 1/4″, or move it slightly further out. I also use my tape measure as it has imperial and metric on…[Read more]

Thanks Nicole,
I am planning to add press studs at regular intervals (as I have a snap press which makes it really fast to add) for size adjustment, but needed a idea of where to start.
How/where have you crossed Matilda’s over, as the pattern already calls for it to cross over on the back?
thanks Heidi
P.S. I really like the new trench coat you made.

Thanks Nicole,
I am planning to add press studs at regular intervals (as I have a snap press which makes it really fast to add) for size adjustment, but needed a idea of where to start.
How/where have you crossed Matilda’s over, as the pattern already calls for it to cross over on the back?
thanks Heidi
P.S. I really like the new trench coat you made.

Thanks for help and the prompt reply Cindy.
Heidi

Thanks for help and the prompt reply Cindy.
Heidi

Thanks for help and the prompt reply Cindy.
Heidi

Hi everyone,
I need some help with the placement of the velcor on the long ends of the straps of the bear carrier. I have mad a number of these for a local Salvation Army Church fete (fair), but I don’t have any children around to measure the length of the straps. I was wondering if anyone who has made one could let me know the distance betwen the…[Read more]

Hi everyone,
I need some help with the placement of the velcor on the long ends of the straps of the bear carrier. I have mad a number of these for a local Salvation Army Church fete (fair), but I don’t have any children around to measure the length of the straps. I was wondering if anyone who has made one could let me know the distance betwen the…[Read more]