Having fun!

Or maybe even multicolored? I once made a fab overnight bag with seersucker plaid in green and pink, and a maching lime green lining. I can't look at it anymore however, because that is the color scheme of my braces. And let's just say I hate my braces and wish I could beat them to a bloody pulp.

**going to bed grumbling about my stupid braces now**

Tahirih, humble sewist "Two things are infinate; the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

Kate, how does that work with printing? Do you print out a gadzillion

8x10 sheets and tape them together....? I've always been curious as to how the printing part of the WIld Ginger software worked.

Sounds like lots of fun, too!!

-Irene

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The shouldn't be *that* uncomfortable! And just think how great your smile will be when you get them off.

I have my initials emblazoned on my briefcase: CJD! I used to tell the kids I've been a mad cow with holes in my brain for years when they commented, and they'd better watch out when I set their homework... ;D

Yes, basically, unless you have a massive printer or plotter and tell it to print on 36" roll paper... It's a bit of a skiddle (there's potential for error with every join, after all), but it isn't too hard as there is a register at every corner of every sheet to be joined, and they are all given rows and numbers.

You can tell it which sheets to print, so for a bridal train you can just print out the sheets with the lines on and lay them on dot & cross and glue them down...

It is. Dunno how useful it's gonna be with the hump-backed, one boob's ladies with odd shoulders in a size 34, but we'll see! ;)

You would hate yourself more, if years down the line, people judged you for how your face looked with a face mis-shaped by a mis-shaped jaw arch and misplaced teeth. All things that could have been easily corrected if the dentist hadn't replied to my mothers' question, "Oh no, she doesn't need braces, her teeth will still move." All my life I have been told I "look" like I am angry and no response of mine has ever been enough to get them off that track. The tight jaw angle gives the face a "pinched" look and that is what gets these judgmental people to say I "look" angry and not talk to me. This reaction is "their problem" but it has interfered in the way my life has gone. Which is too much psychology to get into here. So, here I am at 50 years old still trying to afford braces. I am going to do it I just have some other teeth issues to remedy first.

Oh, and by the way, if you doubt that people with broad even smiles are considered normal or beautiful, watch TV commercials over the next week or so. See what the smiles of those actors look like. I guaranty the vast majority while have broad, even and white teeth.

Be thankful, it will be over before you realize, AK in PA

Pasting does seem to be a "sticking point" for you, doesn't it? Herewith a tutorial, in case you may have missed one or more of the labour-saving steps.

Select a smooth, hard work surface. I use my dining table because I can flip up leaves if necessary (or even add extras in the middle if doing something huge) and any stray glue can be wiped off with a damp cloth. Make sure you have a tube or bottle of glue with a very fine dispenser tip, one which can give you a 1/8" bead of stickum. When the pattern sheets come out of the printer, take your desk scissors and clip off all four corners of each page right at the registration marks to make it easy to spot them. Lay out the first batch of sheets on the table. It is very difficult to make a mistake unless you are incredibly careless, because, as you have noticed, each one comes out of the printer neatly labelled "Col.1 Row 1" Col.1 Row 2" and so forth. With four or more pattern sheets on the table, run a 1/8" bead of glue down one edge, grab the next piece and clag it on. (Note, it is more important to match pattern lines than registration marks, particularly if your printer has a tendency towards slippage. Do the next piece in the same way. Very soon, you will get into the rhythm of it, and find yourself able to run glue round two or three sides of a sheet and stick the next ones on before the glue dries. Once you have got the hang of it, hand the whole job over to James while you get on with other tasks.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Kate, you definitely need to make the dress sloper. The sheath sloper is more for those who don't have a defined waist, which you most assuredly do have.

And before you print out any other patterns, go sew up that sloper! You will find that if you need to make any changes that all that paper is just a waste. (I recycle mine! LOL)

Have fun. :)

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Anything! I was tempted to take the staple gun to it, but this would have had a slightly permanent effect on my cutting table... I'm actually very neat and good at this sort of thing, but that is tempered by impatience! ;)

I have Auntie-Mo-Next-Door's ex-dining table, on nice tall legs. :) No bending! Poly varnish surface! :) Glue proof, if not staple-proof! ;)

The glue stick was a bit fat, and then it tended to dry before I was done... Somewhere in the sewing room there is a glue filled roller ball pen...

Neat!

That is so useful, isn't it.

As mine does, adding to the impatience levels... Old (as in knackered through use for years on high volume teaching stuff and office documents) HP Lazerjet 6L

What a brilliant idea that is! He's such a useful and talented chap, too... He learned how to use the (big, petrol driven) lawn mower today, and cut the front grass! :)

I now need to find that glue pen and go print out another pattern, just so I can try your advice. Thank you! :)

I did note that will bigger stuff like Big Fat Bridal skirts I could just print out the sheets with lines on and glue them down to dot&cross rather than printing out dozens of pages with nothing but the row/column and register marks to glue together! :)

Ho yuss... Even when I was 213lbs I had a waist! I also had a bum the size of Everest, but that's a different matter... ;)

I will! I just printed that sheath sloper to see how the printing and pasting worked. I will make it up, as it's the basis for the princess seamed stuff - my favourite dress type! :) I do have a standard dress sloper saved, and I think a skirt sloper. It is now cool enough for me to press that calico...

I am! :D

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And it's probably old and dried out! Either go down to the school and look in their supplies cupboard to see what sort of thing is available near you, or make a trip to Woolworth's and see what they have. I use Elmer's School Glue, Gel Formula, which I am pretty sure is also available in the U.K. It has a pointed orange tip which, when you twist it, opens up just enough for a narrow bead of glue to come out. Twist it further for a wider bead.

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Be careful here! Our ds learned to use the big brand-new power mower when he had just turned 12. Within a couple of days, three different neighbors had remarked "I see he is mowing lawns now, what does he charge?" Very soon he had a sizeable clientele, handed his paper route over to his little sister and was making money hand over fist. Never any suggestion of paying us for wear and tear on the machine, mind you, and usually conned Dad into buying the fuel for it. We did, however, insist that our lawn had to be cut before the other customers.

I tried the "pies" when they came out, and HATED them. On my printer they came out super heavy, and sometimes smeared over the rest of the paper before the ink dried. Fortunately the software gives you the option to use whichever you prefer, and I swiftly changed back.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

No - brand new sticks! It's just that this one speads thin and it dries VERY quickly in our present heat. I found a glue tape dispencer that did a better job. I don't use it on pattern tissue because it stretches it too much. I'll also dig out that glue pen tomorrow, and try that.

Hehehe... Enterprising soul! One has to admire the cheek of it! :) However, the neighbour on one side is a professional landscape gardener, and his lawns are always immaculate, and Auntie Mo Next Door on the other side is a Mad Garden Manicuring Witch as well as a sewing witch, so her garden is always great looking too.

Ours hovvers between Manic Jungle Taking Over England, and gently scruffy... Where the others hoover their lawns every week, our front has been cut twice since last September, and part of the back got cut today for the first time since last August! A combination of bad back, builders, and wet weather on the weekends we were here. Some of the grass is waist high.

Yup - with the tape glue I just stuck the bits that needed it and left gaps where it didn't! No point in gluing a bit that was going in the paper recycling box 3 minutes later!

Hang in there! They'll be done with soon enough. I'm about halfway through my cycle of treatment (at 38 y.o.!), and I finally made peace with the metallic monstrosities on my biters. The only thing I can't quite relax about is the two-jaw surgery I get to have when the alignment is all through!

Jaw surgery is a piece of cake; I've had three! The first one was whilst I was 35 and pregnant, and had to have my jaw wired shut for a month. I combined Ensure with everything: peanut butter, bananas, honey, strawberries, even eggs (although now they say not to use raw eggs, but that didn't hurt me), all whipped in the blender. And I combined chicken broth with vegetable soup, potato soup, etc. Gained eight pounds that month, and burned out one blender and had to buy another one. The braces went on a couple months later, when I was 36.

My brother->

Indeed! I first considered the whole mess twenty years ago, and at that time there were a lot more potential complications. Enough so that my late-teen brain froze up and said "no way".

Now the doc keeps repeating, "This won't be routine or minor, but there are a *lot* of these done anymore." That makes me feel better, I guess. :-)