Well Ohsewsimple, I had an elderly friend who learnt that she had terminal cancer and started to try and sort her affairs and sewing life out - she did well, and I am the lucky recipient of her Threads magazines and continued to have this magazine saved at the newsagent she used in a neighbouring village. As I have said I will often go and have a read, and generally find something that I am particularly interested in, and then found that sometimes the articles referred back to another article that was much further back than those I had. This niggled me, and then I thought about the DVD that Threads produce and managed to get one through Amazon UK, it is brilliant as it goes right back to the beginning and you can actually print off the articles if you want to so very useful when you are trying to copy the instructions when altering a pattern to become something else. The version I have goes back to 1985 and up to 2015 so that is issues 1 - 182. At the time I was having hydrotherapy sessions once a week, and for quite a few weeks I was unable to attend, so the money saved mounted up and I used this to treat myself - well worth it too!!!!
Back in December/January 2014 there was an article by Connie Crawford called Add a Princess Seam and the article referred to two slopers that Connie had produced, a shoulder princess seam and an armhole princess seam and these slopers came in multiple sizes with the emphasis on fitting the shoulder, neck and bust particularly on those who are full busted. I got in touch with Connie's business and bought these two sloper patterns, and so far I am delighted with them - they are still in toile stage at the moment, but I have cut out four tops in either cotton or poly cotton and am about ready to start sewing them - I am anticipating some hot weather like last year and want to be prepared.
Then even further back June July 2008 and August/September 2008 there was a very interesting article by Kathleen Cheetham called From Sloper to Shirt and the follow up Using your Sloper to Finish your Shirt - the resulting garment looks brilliant and again it is something on my list to do.
As my late friend said Threads is the very best sewing magazine around and I know I would be lost without having this wonderful resource at my finger tips.