I received my latest Threads magazine yesterday, and in this there were loads of ideas for Christmas gifts, and one in particular is from the UK, and comes under the name of Jenerates (Jen Hogg) she was in the GBSB of 2019, and has set up her own business and there are some lovely sewing aids, the one shown in Threads was Seam Circles, these are small different sized wooden circles all different measurements, and you can place these against your pattern edge, put a pencil through the central hole and then run the wooden disc up along your pattern - the discs are from a 1/4" seam allowance to 2" and these discs are available either in metric or imperial. Jen has also some other little sewing aids available as well as aids for knitting. Her details are jenhogg.co.uk (whilst I couldn't get this to work initially I eventually just typed in her name and up came Jenerates Jen Hogg).
I think this is going to solve a problem I have had with my husband asking me what do I want for Christmas and to be honest I couldn't think of anything, and as I am drafting a lot of my own patterns lately I think I have now found the answer to marking in my seam allowances as I have tended to go down from the usual 5/8" to 3/8" and then overlocked these together and pressed to one side and for what I have been making this smaller seam allowance on my particular rather large size has proved to be beneficial.
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