Puts head above parapet

Pattern size and RTW size are not the same (as I found out when I started my jacket toile).
If any clothes sewer ventured into the Dark Side, but then ran in the very early stages you would be encouraging them to persevere as they would get better with practice.

Ducks back below parapet

Congratulations. Beautiful work.

It is rather lovely, I like it myself 

Fight? 

Well I would be careful if it was a design that had an obvious up and down like 'why are your flowers upside down'?
Otherwise I would agree with Jo.

I am not even moaning really, we are all having to do it, we are the emergency services after all and we are living in a difficult time but we are human too and we get tired of people like the prime minister saying that it is not how many officers you have it is how you deploy them that matters.  Well sweets maybe that goes for MPs too! And on that note I am off to work and not the Father's Day lunch the rest of my family are off to apart from the doctor brother and matron sister in law!!

RD, I seem to be bumping into similar discussions on various forums (fora)
and found a poem lurking at the back of my memory


    O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
    But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,

Thank you all.
 

Prompted by comments in the Riding Habit thread I realised that I will need shoulder pads for my toile and then the actual jacket.

Are all shoulder pads equally good (in my case whatever JL has in stock tomorrow) or does quality vary, do people have preferences/on-line sources etc?