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Fish Leos Done - Show Pics
After being out of town for a few days for a wedding, I arrived home in time to finish the fish leotards. While out of town, we visited a marine science center, where I studied how fish fins work. I...
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Brand new here! Pattern help, please?
Hi all! I've just started sewing and I've got about a million questions, and this looked like a good place to ask. My current sticking point is with a continuous lap. The pattern says to baste the...
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Finished!
Finished, paid for, amnd out the door! Phew! This was a long haul, but it felt like it was worth it in the end. What I did yesterday: notes on how to make buttonholes using lavatory paper!) What I did...
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Fabric Source?
Does anyone have a source for the quilted silver-backed fabric used for pot holders &/or hot pads? I'm making several embroidered items for a fund-raising auction, and I'd like to include pot holders...
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help with bathing suit
Hi guys, I know I have been gone for a while and I miss you all! But I have managed to start following along again. I need some help with a bathing suit. I am making a one piece and I just got the...
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New photos
I've uploaded a few photos from Kate & my trip to the V&A museum - there is a "beautiful" pattern "match" just for Beverly ;-) Explore lizzyastro's 288 photos on Flickr!
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14 years ago
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Fish Leotards and Oops
I volunteered to make 11 leotards for my 5 yo's dance class. They are dancing fishes. I found great lycra, iridescent turquoise & silver in a fish scale pattern, ordered it on Tues. afternoon before...
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The Three Sewists of the Apocalyps convene this weekend!
Watch out for Furious Frocking, Stellar Stays, and Lots of Laughter - not to mention Cruising with the Cutters, Machining with the Masters, and Inter Continental Ballistic Cooking! FTL sewing is on...
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I'm making a slacks-kameezish
------------- SHARON!!! Where've you been, dear girl? Cea
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14 years ago
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Can You Help Me Find This Dress?
Hello All I found a picture of a wonderful dress on the net, failed to bookmark the site and now would like to find it again. I'm hoping if I describe the dress it will jog someone's memory. The main...
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14 years ago
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Improved store
I went to my local Hancock Fabrics the other day, and discovered it empty, and a sign on the door reading "We have moved acros the street." Now, the old place was in a decidedly run-down strip mall,...
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prom dress
Working on the SENIOR prom dress. Finally found all the colors of chiffon we wanted. Did a muslin of the bodice yesterday. Working on rework of that today. Might cut into the "real" fabric...
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14 years ago
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Hair canvas interfacing ?
Big surprise ... Local fabric retailer has no clue, the canvas is over there :( Is there a suitable or reasonable interfacing substitute for hair canvas ? eg. muslin, duck, poplin, canvas, denim,...
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OT: Earthquake ub CA and SW
I've been hearing from friends out in S CA that the earthquake today was worse than the one that hit Northridge in 1992 and certainly much worse than the one that hit the LA area when I was living in...
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Easter Sunday
A very happy Easter to all on the list! Ceil from CT
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