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Two More for My Bed

Another cell phone photo, but it still looks good. http://tinyurl.com/6vo6hjq My goal is to do a couple of bed-sized to...
1 comments posted 14yrs
posted by pollyesther234
1 comments posted 14yrs posted by pollyesther234

Flash mob in PDX!

This is how we do it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtqvKwYQkWI&feature=em-share_video_user ;-)
3 comments posted 14yrs
posted by nospam_beidesign
3 comments posted 14yrs posted by nospam_beidesign

Ping Ron again

A quite mad question. Sometimes I need to turn up a sleeve hem in a size 3 lb preemie gown. I use the #13 foot because...
2 comments posted 14yrs
posted by Pollynot
2 comments posted 14yrs posted by Pollynot

PING @ Ron Anderson (OT)

Hello Ron, I always read in your signature that your address is Dingman Road. Do you know anything about the origin of...
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posted by uschrader
6 comments posted 14yrs posted by uschrader

Sorry, Barbie one more time

I respectfully acknowledge that you all usually stitch more impressive garments than Barbie doll clothes. But - now and...
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posted by Pollynot
0 comments posted 14yrs posted by Pollynot

doll clothes one more time

I wasn't expecting it to come by again. I made my own doll clothes. My baby sister's. Our daughters'. On and on. But. I...
4 comments posted 14yrs
posted by Pollynot
4 comments posted 14yrs posted by Pollynot

Zippers

Today I was watching my favorite General Hospital soap show on TV. They always show the latest in fashions and beautifu...
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posted by baraper
19 comments posted 14yrs posted by baraper

Sewing from hell

I have just discovered the hard way the sewing fabric combination from hell. Leather waistcoat fronts with polyester sa...
6 comments posted 14yrs
posted by claire
6 comments posted 14yrs posted by claire

Doomed! We're aaalll DOOOOMED!

NEXT TIME I propose doing something this bonkers, just remind me WHY it is such a bad idea! 24 pattern pieces... And I...
15 comments posted 14yrs
posted by kate
15 comments posted 14yrs posted by kate

Need a Viking / Bernina translation

Any Vikings here who do 'fine' stitching? Not fine as in good, better, best - I mean delicate thin batiste. On my Berni...
5 comments posted 14yrs
posted by Pollynot
5 comments posted 14yrs posted by Pollynot

Ugh, a mess!

I just went downstairs to retrieve the iron so I could work up here on DSIL's kilt, and discovered that one of the shel...
23 comments posted 14yrs
posted by nospam_beidesign
23 comments posted 14yrs posted by nospam_beidesign

Latest little project

I have been playing with fabric and timtex the last couple of weeks, this was one of my projects http://www.instructable...
5 comments posted 14yrs
posted by lizzy
5 comments posted 14yrs posted by lizzy

Discount Sewing Parts

Marty's father Don made his living as a door-to-door vacuum salesman in North Central Florida. As a child, Marty would...
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posted by vacsewcenter
2 comments posted 14yrs posted by vacsewcenter

Once burned, forever cautious

I'm in the final stages of cutting out a tunic-and-jeans set, and being *very* careful with the scraps. This leads me t...
3 comments posted 14yrs
posted by jbeeson
3 comments posted 14yrs posted by jbeeson