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- Ursula Schrader
  
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13 years ago

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 9:15 AM

Hello Kate,

I was looking for your story about how you made Christine's 'wedding dress' (she still calls it so;-)) because I vaguely remember that you made it a tutorial about how to make a bias binding. I looked in the Dress diaries but couldn't find it although there is somewhere the title 'Tiny frocking' which I think is the article I'm looking for. However, it didn't seem to be there. No idea why. Please, help me, would you? 'The time has come, the walrus said...' Which reminds me that I wanted to tell you that I started reading the Winnie-the-Poo-stories to Christine and she loves them. ;-)

U.

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13 years ago

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 10:37 AM

You know, I'm not sure I did a complete diary of the tiny frock... I'll go and find everything I can.

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Hm... No bias cutting tutorial, I'm afraid. Still, it isn't hard. You do it like this:

Press your fabric so that it is nice and FLAT! Line the selvege edge up along the first line on the cutting mat Find the 45 degree line on the quilting ruler and line that up along the selvege... Cut a straight edge. Remove the cut off scrap... Using your new straight cut as the starting edge, line the ruler up along that edge, with the line of the ruler along the cut edge, and slice off strips as wide as you need them.

For the tiny frock binding I use 2" strips. For corsets and things where I want the binding doubled, I use 3"-5" strips.

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13 years ago

Wed, Apr 13, 2011 2:29 AM

Ursula, I have to share this story about one DGD and those books. When my 12-YO DGD was 2, I babysat her 2-3 days weekly in the summer. She never liked reading except Winnie the Pooh, which she loved and still does. I found several stores that carried fabric with Winnie the Pooh designs; I made her a dress with a blue background and some tops of other colors.

She now has a 2-YO sister, but refuses to allow her to wear those outfits; in fact, she asked me to make sister some outfits like hers, so she didn't have to share.

Emily