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Events / Re: Birmingham Rag Market Meets #1 #2 and #3
« on: March 27, 2017, 20:57:23 PM »
I wish DF, Twas a great day out! I remember picking up a huge roll of elastic with '£3' sellotaped on it and asking that was the price per metre 'No luv - it's for the roll.' Been living here too long ....

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Patterns Discussion / Re: What size should I start with?
« on: March 26, 2017, 19:51:12 PM »
Well done, did you mark up your toile changes on the pattern? I'm a bit slack at this and usually find some cryptic note scribbled on the back of the packet when I get the pattern out again.

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Patterns Discussion / Re: Paper for tracing patterns off
« on: March 24, 2017, 12:41:28 PM »
Swisslass has just ordered a 136m roll of dot'n'cross paper from William Gee.

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Patterns Discussion / Re: FBA - moving a French dart
« on: March 20, 2017, 19:50:04 PM »
Fran - can you draw me a picture? I don't understand where I pivot it

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Patterns Discussion / FBA - moving a French dart
« on: March 20, 2017, 19:25:35 PM »
I've done an FBA on a dress with a French dart - how do I move the dart so it points at the new bust point?
Do I just lower it as per the PP book or do I rotate it ? And if so how?




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Publications / Re: Library of How To sewing information
« on: March 18, 2017, 07:27:30 AM »
Ditto, I thought I recognised the logo- my goddaughter is at UK

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Your Favourite Suppliers / Re: Goldhawk Road
« on: March 16, 2017, 06:27:44 AM »
Another place for free entertainment is Changing of the Guard at Buck Pal, usually 10.15 - check times and days, and then walk down LHS side of Buck Pal for a photo stood next to a horse guard.

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Your Favourite Suppliers / Re: Goldhawk Road
« on: March 15, 2017, 17:57:56 PM »
I would second the Imperial War Museum, we went to the one in Manchester and plan doing the London one at Easter. HMS Belfast is also good, I believe you can also go in Tower Bridge, and check on the website for the times at which it will be opening. Walk along the south bank and peer through the gate at the Globe Theatre. The London Eye is also great, we'll be doing this for the 3 time, each time we have just turned up and jumped on. The first time I took my son to London he was 4 and got lots of thrills riding at the front of a double decker bus and watching and riding the tubes.... Chinatown and environs is a great place to eat, and often the museums have good cafes. Greenwich is another place that may be worth a visit, there's the maritime museum, market, park, and Cutty Sark, you can take the DLR to Island Gardens (? End of the line) and walk through the tunnel under the river to Greenwich. (theres also a very large very new Lego shop in Leicester Square) St Martin in the Fields used to offer brass rubbing in the crypt for a small fee, not sure if it still happens. The Natural History museum is fun, and free.

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Previous sewalong entries / Re: Sewalong suggestions and ideas?
« on: March 14, 2017, 20:49:48 PM »
Sew your most precious piece of fabric .... (you CAN do it!)

Sew that piece of fabric that you love but haven't a clue what to do with it/or why you bought it

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Dress Forms / Re: Which dressform?
« on: March 14, 2017, 20:46:11 PM »
I have an adjustable one - and I don't use it, it's currently in the basement as I was intending to put it on eBay when we drive over at Easter. I'll put some pictures up and list it in the for sale section if you or anyone else is interested. No clue which brand it is but it's royal blue.

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Had to explain the word 'stash' today - to someone with a sewing machine

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Previous sewalong entries / Re: Official Stash Sewalong Competition
« on: March 14, 2017, 20:34:39 PM »
Bad day here, started on project 2 the jacket. I'd traced the pattern out a few weeks ago, so I pinned it, cut it out, ironed the interfacing on then sewed the back and front up, tried it on for size. Quart and pint pot came to mind, unpicked it, let seams out, no joy. I think i'd misread the pattern and traced off the size based on hip size and not bust

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Vintage Machines / Re: The unexpected Bernina Nova
« on: March 14, 2017, 17:43:00 PM »
http://www.mariamichaelsdesigns.com/Bernina/BerninaComparisonCharts6.htm

Stumbled across this in my travels .... but this is not the one I was thinking of, I'm sure it was on a German website, because it was a really odd website of someone who was into Bernina's and something like vintage tractors or old cars

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Patterns Discussion / Re: *PDF Warning*
« on: March 14, 2017, 12:29:21 PM »
I thought it was just me, I find Style Arc patterns really big, I've made the Twiggy dress and the Lana tunic and (despite measuring for the correct size) they were both huge. Both were a fag to mess with, I couldn't be bothered with the Lana tunic, I gave it away and made another. I love their style but it's put me off making any more.

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Patterns Discussion / Re: Paper for tracing patterns off
« on: March 14, 2017, 12:20:11 PM »
Thanks for your replies, I'm not a fan of burda paper though I do use their squared paper, I'm after something a bit more robust, I like the sound of drafting paper/tracing paper as I prefer it on a roll.

I was also looking at the price of STP

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