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Fun with Fabric / Re: Fabric for men's PJ's
« on: November 01, 2023, 13:08:20 PM »
I bought myself a dressing gown from M&S last week. I'd priced the fabric, including postage, to make one with long enough sleeves, mid calf length and the M&S offering fits well, is the colour that I was thinking of and cost £12 less.

And there's no fluff to be cleaned up either  :love:

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Tuesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 31, 2023, 15:50:36 PM »
Quote from: Kad on October 31, 2023, 08:13:49 AM
I  publicly state that 'I will layer, pin and mark the current quilt this afternoon ' - there it's official so it WILL BE DONE!

I enjoy the actual quilting process but not the necessary preparations

Done  :dance:
 The machine is set up and the tension etc checked so the next few afternoons will be spent quilting.

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Tuesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 31, 2023, 08:13:49 AM »
I  publicly state that 'I will layer, pin and mark the current quilt this afternoon ' - there it's official so it WILL BE DONE!

I enjoy the actual quilting process but not the necessary preparations

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Overlockers & Coverstitchers / Re: Overlocker recommendations please
« on: October 28, 2023, 15:01:00 PM »
I've got a Janome 634D overlocker, I've had it for years, (and think it was the top of the range at the time). So long in fact that there was no internet around on which somebody could tell me that it was difficult to thread. In those dim & distant days we looked at the instruction book and got on with it  :D  It's sewn everything from rolled hems on silk chiffon to polar fleece and I rarely change a setting apart from stitch length,  I change the needles to suit the fabric, the knife blades when necessary and oil it after every project . It's still going strong and I would miss it dreadfully if it died.
I still have the instructional VHS tape that came with it, no use to me as we didn't have a player until much later.

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Access All Accessories / Re: Flex frames
« on: October 25, 2023, 15:46:13 PM »
Quote from: Ellabella on October 25, 2023, 15:37:21 PM
I'm hoping to make this
https://needleandanchor.com/aphrodite-versa-bag
as part of my DDs Christmas present but am struggling to find a 10" Flex frame in the UK.  I can get small purse sized ones but can only find larger ones in the States.
I've tried flex frames and facile frames as searches but nothings coming up, has anybody any better ideas
@Ellabella

Try searching for " hexagon purse frame". If all else fails I have one that measures 12" in total length from Jaycotts.

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 25, 2023, 15:28:02 PM »
While rootling through my "it'll come in useful someday" box of fabric I found this trial stitch out of a C***mas design. I decided to turn it into a gift bag   [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]  

Still haven't found what I was originally rootling for  :laughing:

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Tuesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 24, 2023, 15:17:26 PM »
I'm impatiently waiting for a delivery of fabric from Pound Fabrics courtesy of Evri. The delivery window keeps moving, in the wrong direction  :rant: Until then I'm pottering about with a simple loom that DS gave me last birthday - no really my thing but he's asked how I'm getting on with it  :S

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Patterns Discussion / Re: The Sewing Workshop
« on: October 20, 2023, 18:03:20 PM »
@sewmuchmore
I feel your pain  :hug: I have to be very careful not to buy patterns that either don't suit my current life, (and the likelihood of ever doing so again is vanishingly small) or suit my current body shape. The latter is less of a problem as DS is almost my younger double. I still lust after them but try so hard not to succumb to their deliciousness  :laughing:

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: Cutting instructions in a quilt pattern
« on: October 16, 2023, 11:55:39 AM »
Quote from: StitchinTime on October 16, 2023, 11:20:23 AM
@Lowena  @datcat23 Thanks for you comments on this.

I subscribe to a quilting magazine and their patterns tend to include instructions as to how many WOF are needed and how to subcut them. Perhaps this is why I was expecting to see similar instructions in this pattern.

Anyway, I've spent a some of this morning setting up an Excel spreadsheet to do the calculations should I come across another pattern lacking these instructions  8)

@StitchinTime

I use an app on my Android phone which will calculate yardage for borders, backing and binding, how many pieces of size ? from fabric of size *, how much fabric is needed for a number of pieces of specified size and even the size of pieces necessary for a 'square in square ' block. It's by Robert Kaufman and called "Quilting Calculators".

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 11, 2023, 15:22:26 PM »
Still piecing quilt blocks for the wedding quilt, 36 done 12 more to go.

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Tuesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 10, 2023, 14:53:01 PM »
I've pieced 6 blocks for the quilt that I'm making for the wedding of the youngest son of a dear friend. He is very aware that this is a treat indeed, I only make quilts for very special people. Just abandoned it for a mug of coffee and an eccles cake   :devil:

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« on: October 04, 2023, 15:34:42 PM »
Not actually sewing, I'm hunting online for a new desk light for my sewing table. Don't want to spend a fortune but my list of requirements is quite specific  :[

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For Sale, Wanted & Free to a good home / Free to a Good Home - Soft Toy Patterns
« on: October 03, 2023, 14:48:06 PM »
" With the compliments of Woman's Weekly - Wild West Show designed by Jean Greenhowe. Meet Cowboy Bill & his horse Dynamite, with his Red Indian pal, Little Brave - and his horse Pauncho"

The horses are ~ 18" long, 10.5" high and the riders are ~ 16" tall. Full-size pattern with instructions. From 1983 according to one page ie 40 years old!

I've discovered this in the back of an old atlas.  It's a photocopy of the magazine, uncut and, as far as I can tell complete.

If anyone can make good use of it, it's theirs for the cost of postage.
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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Boom
« on: September 30, 2023, 15:24:52 PM »
Quote from: Bumblebuncher on September 30, 2023, 14:05:59 PM
Hello and welcome from me too.
Was Pippa Sindy's little sister?

I had a Sindy doll, my little sister a "Penny Bright". I thought that she was Sindy's little sister? Wasn't Pippa some 'relation' to Barbie?

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« on: September 27, 2023, 15:23:54 PM »
Not sewing but designing a quilt that I've offered to make for a wedding present. I'm off to the Quilt Show in Harrogate on Friday so if I'm decisive I can get the meterage calculated and hopefully buy the fabric there.

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