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First time sewing swimwear
When i sew the elastic on the waist and leg openings of the bikini bottom, the fabric shifts and my stitches end up crooked. What am I doing wrong? -------------------------------------...
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Ping@Kate
Hi Kate, since I'm going to work with (crinkle) chiffon I thought I might look into your pages; you did a couple of floaties, I remember. However, 'Dressing Janneane' shows only seams that 'don't take...
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12 years ago
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Dress Alert! (HELP!!!)
Help! I've got nothing to wear. And we've got tickets for the 100-year anniversary of the local painters' guild. And it's terribly posh, but I don't know if a cocktail dress will do or if it has to be...
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12 years ago
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It's done!
At the risk of frustrating Juno even more: Today I managed to finish the tunic! Right now it's hanging outside on the clothesline, freshly laundered to get rid of the starch, so that I may wear it...
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12 years ago
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My ongoing coat saga
I'm still working on my coat. I warned you this might take forever but I'm not giving up. I started working with a redrawn pattern that I could sew together. All went well until I actually tried to...
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Baby frock pattern wanted!
Baby needs frocks. I'll go 'shopping' in the stash, but I don't have many for newborns, and this'll be a tiddler. Expected birth weight at full term is about five and a half pounds. Anyone got a nice...
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12 years ago
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singer feathereight bobbin winding problem
for some reason the knurled nob on the handwheel does not release the handwheel to wind my bobbin--i tried all sorts of attempts to release the handwheel to no avail--so in order for me to wind a...
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12 years ago
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softwear
--i lost my Bernina v3 software is there any place you might be able to find this. i know it is old but i like useing this progan ----------------------------------...
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12 years ago
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singer featherweight bobbin out of synch
i had to take off the needle plate to clean the bobbin--when i replaced the needle plate making sure the position finger is in the grove of the needle plate--what now happens is the needle hits the...
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12 years ago
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Skipping stitches! (GRRR!!!)
Hi all, I really need your advice, especially from those of you who are familiar with Berninas, knit fabrics and perhaps Soluweb. OK, so I'm in my sewing class on Wednesday and I got my new Bernina...
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12 years ago
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Empty spools and cones
What do you do with your empty spool and cones? Years ago I saved up and once a year donated them to a small private school for the younger children to play with in the sandbox. That is not an option...
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12 years ago
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Serger thread woe
It wasn't a finer moment in sewing, just a needed one. I was serging receiving blankets for NewBorns in Need. Miles and miles and miles. I noticed that the thread coming from the cones had thin spots...
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12 years ago
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Ping: Sharon
Thank you,thank you, thank you!! I love the fiskar spring scissors. They work like a gem and my hand doesn't cramp up at all. Juno
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12 years ago
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On sewing boxes (or: Us girls must be stoopid, so rip us off!)
OK, I travel with my sewing stuff from home to sewing class and there was always something missing because it didn't fit in the tiny 1-litre box. So I went off after my last class and got me something...
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Olympic pennants
I've started toi make some pennants that'll be used as gifts to athletes 2012 London. I wondered if others in the UK ( & around the world) had heard about this project? I specially like it because...
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