buying patterns online

Are you looking for majorly available patterns or indie designers?

I have tried some free downloadable patterns, like the wildginger. I tried the newsboy cap, the first one was good, but the second try not so great, but that was my fault for choosing thick heavy corduroy.

Michelle Giordano

I've used the free patterns from wildginger.com and they are great, think I've used about 4 of them now and all were successful. Just takes a little more time to line up the A4 sheets and tape together, but that doesn't matter (to me) as I'm saving on the cost of buying a pattern.

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I just bought a pattern online and I loved the way it downloaded quickly as soon as the Paypal payment went through. I literally had the pattern within minutes of purchase. It took lot's of paper for printing out. I used rubber cement to glue them together and today I will cut the bodice out, baste it together and do a fitting. I measured the pattern for fit and it seems like it is going to work out nicely. Joy

Are you going to keep it a secret as to what pattern and what site you used for the download.

Joy wrote

Oh, no, didn't mean to keep it a secret...just it is a bit on the "off the wall" side and didn't think anyone would be interested. But, for the sake of satisfying curiosity..... I paid $8 for a Beauty Pageant Dress (shell) Pattern

(No...not for me!!!)

Got it at "My Pageant Kid" site....don't remember the url. Joy

Thanks, Not my style but interesting. Juno

Joy Hardie wrote:

most people replied with information about free sewing patterns...I am mostly interested in Simplicity which is my favorite brand (dont ask me why). Is it worth paying for sewing patterns or are there enough free ones availavle to keep me busy? Thanks again!!!!

I never thought about indie designers...I like anything INDIE!. Any suggestions? thanks!!!

o yes, just google "sewing patterns" and you will get plenty info.

"Indies" than big names, good shipping rates. Just click on Patterns by company/designer in the left hand column Nice people to deal with on the phone. lots of patterns.HTHJuno

180sew> I never thought about indie designers...I like anything INDIE!. Any

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reviewed a pattern from Modern Sewing at m-sewing.com. I ordered a pattern from them and paid them to print it. It came rolled up in a mailing tube, but I haven't tried it yet.

maer

I haven't tried them yet, but I plan on trying these when my waistline gets back to normal:

You can keep sewing forever without using any patterns at all. Patterns were not possible until paper got cheap, and were still a novel idea at the beginning of the twentieth century, but people way back when wore clothing more sophisticated than what we are wearing now.

You buy a pattern because you like the design.

I just downloaded a free design that I like:

I think I'll make a flannel nightgown -- or poking around inthe stash may give me another idea. I will, of course,use the neckline from my poncho shirt instead of the onethat was fashionable in the eighteenth century. The page doesn't mention -- because it's familiar to heraudience -- that a shift is supposed to consume every squareinch of your piece of fabric. Joy Beeson

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True, but not totally so. Paper patterns may have only been around since the advent of "cheap" methods of mass production, however prior to that patterns were certainly around . Godey's Ladies Book among other ladies fashion books from about the Victorian period onwards had "patterns" for fashions featured within their pages, only the patterns were all on one sheet of paper and required the sewer to "draft" the pattern to scale/size. This is much like a pattern maker would do today or commercial seamstresses working from designs. Sewing was done much the way couture sewing is done today; one scaled up the pattern/made muslin (or some other material) pattern pieces and began the process of running up the outfit.

There were then and still are now seamstresses whom did not need to use this method, but rather would look at a garment and either make the pattern themselves (just as modern patternmakers do today), or simply just made the garment from "their head".

"Past Patterns" also revives an old tradition of separate patterns for bodices, skirts, sleeves etc on one pattern (already scaled,but on one paper pattern, the sewer has to make the correct size pattern in either muslin or paper), which allows/allowed the sewer/seamstress to combine various treatments to achieve the design she wished.

Finally their was another "pattern" method popular from about the Victorian era, dolls sent out (IIRC Vogue and Godey's did this) dressed in the latest fashions. One would receive the doll and either take it to a seamstress to produce the garment, or run it up themselves.

Candide

Joy, thanks for posting the site with the info on shifts. I just finished reading Diana Gabaldon's new book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and the two main women in the book spend an awful lot of their time in their shifts. I had a much different vision of what this meant, thinking that it was a sleeveless garment! That makes a bit of a difference in what kind of a predicament it was to be caught in just your shift. :)

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati Wild Ginger Software Certified Educator

joy bees> >

I love those designs.

HTH

Michelle Giordano

If you get a chance, check out our store.

we are a little behind on getting all of our inventory listed, but if anyone has a specific pattern they are looking for they are more than welcome to email us and we wll check our inventory..

Have a great day!! Trudy

Tut, Tut, Tut, Trudy, You know better than to advertize here. If you don't know better you should! No advertizing, ever. That's the way it is and we don't buy from those who do.Advertize that is. Juno