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Title: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: rachieface on November 18, 2018, 21:42:27 PM
Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for letting me join!

I'm a designer and illustrator from South Wales with a keen interest in sewing. I've previously used it in my illustration work, but I want to get more into dressmaking and sewing stuff for my dog!

I'm still a beginner so I'll probably be needing lots of advice  :D

Can't wait to chat with you all :)

Rachel x

 :woof: :thread: <3 :flower:
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: fajita on November 18, 2018, 21:51:33 PM
Welcome @rachieface  :flower: :drink:
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: rachieface on November 18, 2018, 21:54:25 PM
@Fajita Thank you :)
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: fajita on November 18, 2018, 22:05:16 PM
@rachieface What sort of dog do you have? What do you envision making for him/her?
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Renegade Sewist on November 18, 2018, 22:17:22 PM
Welcome Rachel! Enjoy yourself here and ask away. :drink: :cake: We were all beginners at one time. Back in the Dark Ages for some of us, but still...
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Greybird on November 18, 2018, 22:26:23 PM
Hello and welcome!!
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: rachieface on November 18, 2018, 23:10:16 PM
@Fajita I have a whippet :)

I think I want to start with a simple coat and then move onto something like a fleece (similar to the one he's wearing in the photo which he's grown out of now!) :)

(https://i.imgur.com/PHProz0.jpg)
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: rachieface on November 18, 2018, 23:11:04 PM
@Renegade Sewist @Greybird Thank you! :)
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Acorn on November 19, 2018, 09:36:47 AM
Love that fleece!   :D

One word of warning... don't take up knitting...

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Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Sewingsue on November 19, 2018, 09:47:22 AM
Welcome, Rachel.
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Ploshkin on November 19, 2018, 09:53:08 AM
Croeso Rachel.  Your whippet picture made me smile - not what you expect when South Walians' whippets come to mind  :)
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Nevis5 on November 19, 2018, 12:57:41 PM
Welcome from me, too @rachieface  ! :toast:
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Helen M on November 19, 2018, 14:57:01 PM
Hi Rachel hope you'll enjoy posting here!
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Deafoldbat on November 19, 2018, 19:28:24 PM
Ah! A proper dog! Remember nothing is whippet-proof, only whippet-resistant. Is that fleece still in one piece?
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Surest1tch on November 19, 2018, 21:16:56 PM
Hi Rachel, welcome. You've definitely found the right place for advice
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: Kenora on November 23, 2018, 13:52:35 PM
Welcome from me too.  :) :flower:
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: snoozi soozi on November 23, 2018, 21:06:08 PM
Hi @rachieface welcome to the forum. I love the pic of your whippet boy, he looks very young there. I have three loopy lurchers but only two of them will go for a walk and I am about to embark on another coat sewing project for them.  Ordered the fleece and the fabric the other day  :loveit:

I will attempt to post pics when they're done but I had a little, erm, trouble last time...
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: rachieface on November 27, 2018, 14:31:51 PM
Ah! A proper dog! Remember nothing is whippet-proof, only whippet-resistant. Is that fleece still in one piece?

Haha very true! It is actually still in one piece, although he has grown out of it  :'(
Title: Re: Hi from Wales :)
Post by: rachieface on November 27, 2018, 14:33:44 PM
Hi @rachieface welcome to the forum. I love the pic of your whippet boy, he looks very young there. I have three loopy lurchers but only two of them will go for a walk and I am about to embark on another coat sewing project for them.  Ordered the fleece and the fabric the other day  :loveit:

I will attempt to post pics when they're done but I had a little, erm, trouble last time...

Thank you! He was only a few months old then. He's nearly a year old now :)

Aw lovely, can't wait to see what you make for them (if you manage to get a pic  0_0)!