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Patterns Discussion / Re: Securing Patterns
« on: March 31, 2018, 19:04:55 PM »
I nearly always use weights and shears, the only time I use pins is on little fiddly bits my weights are too big to use on.

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Fun with Fabric / Re: Chalk marks
« on: March 31, 2018, 19:03:04 PM »
I can't offer a solution but I would be very careful you don't take the wax from the surface of the fabric whilst you are trying to remove the chalk.

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Sewing Machines / Re: Branded bobbins - important?
« on: March 30, 2018, 19:19:08 PM »
I try to stick to the brands that go with the machines, I tried generic ones and although I can't say they damaged my machines I had quite a lot of tension problems with them.

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Juliet from all over but now in Germany
« on: March 30, 2018, 19:12:14 PM »
Hello Juliet, welcome  :toast:

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Hello from south west UK
« on: March 29, 2018, 21:26:52 PM »
Hello and welcome from me too  :toast:

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I have all my machines serviced annually now even if I haven't used them.  I started doing this because the one I used most broke down and cost me more to have it put right than it did to actually buy it in the first place.  I thought I was servicing the ones I used properly but there was all sorts going on I couldn't detect. Lesson learned.

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In the wardrobe / Re: Hi there .... Errrmmmm I have a question ...
« on: March 27, 2018, 21:03:16 PM »
Well done

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In the wardrobe / Re: Hi there .... Errrmmmm I have a question ...
« on: March 26, 2018, 18:28:15 PM »
Unpick an inch or so of casing, [or just slit it on the inside if you can't]  pull up the elastic, and yeah, just sew out what you want to remove, then cut off the excess, let it boing back into the casing, and sew back down again.  Five minute job, and one of the few alterations I can be arsed to do!

That's exactly what I'd do too, after all he's going to bed in them not to a fashion parade

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Newbie here
« on: March 26, 2018, 18:19:16 PM »
Hello Lulu and welcome.  The only daft question there is, is the one that's never asked

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Fun with Fabric / Re: Question about elastic?
« on: March 25, 2018, 16:54:31 PM »
I get mine in Abakhan or the Cloth Shop in Edinburgh - sorry probably not much use to you.

That's fine, every answer helps.  I usually try to buy in bulk when I can and  hadn't realised Hemline was a brand, not a company until the penny dropped of course doh  :fish: :fish: :fish:

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Hello from Essex!
« on: March 25, 2018, 16:38:37 PM »
Hello Spencer, welcome from me too, it's so nice to see men enjoying needlecraft too, we have a few male members now

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Fun with Fabric / Re: Question about elastic?
« on: March 24, 2018, 19:10:27 PM »
Thank you so much @Tamnymore if Hemline have a web site I'll try and find it.  Sadly we don't have a John Lewis anywhere near us.
I never ever thought a simple thing like elastic would turn my head to mush like this.  I used to use something I knew as "soft elastic" which was really good it never rolled or felt stiff across your waistline but they've either stopped making it or renamed it

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Fun with Fabric / Re: Question about elastic?
« on: March 23, 2018, 18:57:51 PM »
Thank you, found it

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Fun with Fabric / Question about elastic?
« on: March 22, 2018, 19:18:29 PM »
I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, I haven't a clue which section to post it in.
Which is best between knitted elastic and knitted honeycomb elastic in waistbands?  I want to make some pull on pants for wearing around the house, I'm not too keen on ordinary elastic and it's been years since I used knitted elastic on anything, I can't even remember what it's like to be honest  :S.
Thanks in advance.

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Another one from the US
« on: March 21, 2018, 22:33:38 PM »
Welcome from me too Jesster  :drink:

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