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Dancing Dress

April 20, 2009

This fabric is so soft and stretchy, I knew it would be a dress for me one day. The blue color was gorgeous.  My friend asked me if I wanted to go dancing this Saturday night, so today was the day.
This was my first attempt at draping and it was harder than I thought it [...]

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Three Pants From One Shirt!

March 13, 2009

This won’t work for long as Deja gets taller. But right now the pattern pieces fit perfectly three times on one of Chris’ XL long-sleeved shirts. The red stripe was across the chest of the shirt, and the purple waist bands were parts of a purple t-shirt of Chris’.
So I fit the leggings pattern fit [...]

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Shirt Pattern Design Progress

March 11, 2009

This is the second iteration of this pattern. The first time I made the sleeves both too short and too tight.
Good thing I have Deja to test all my patterns out on. I can grade them up or down once I get them exactly the way I want and the garments aren’t wasted because Deja [...]

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Properly Threaded

February 14, 2009

I had to completely re-thread the serger about four times, but it’s working again! I think I need to tweak the tension on one of the threads still, but the stitches look like they’re supposed to.
Apparently your garments last longer if the inside seams are finished and I see these kids clothes going through the [...]

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Making the Serger work

February 10, 2009

I am ashamed to admit I have only used my serger about 5 times since I got it 4 years ago. I just couldn’t get the tension right. But if I’m going to be making clothes for the kids, I need to use it to make the insides of the  clothes look nicer and last [...]

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