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Category: Sewing
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I am lucky to have a little god-daughter who has given us many of her old things, including this wrap jumper: That is special to me because V wore it the day we went wedding dress shopping. After pulling it out for Tuesday I realized that it really is quite simply constructed. So I decided to try my hand at drafting up a pattern using this dress as a guide. Not quite as easy as I had anticipated, but I did learn a lot! All is fabric is from my stash, and there is the bias binding I made out…
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So yesterday with all that math and craziness. I hope you saw that I updated the post to say that I did not come up with those numbers, but copied it directly out of the book, you can see how I got so confused! I did find a couple of good site for making continuous bias binding strips that I thought I would share. I had thought I would do a tutorial with lovely pictures. But after this was taken I failed again to make the lines line up right. To see what I am talking about check out…
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Okay some questions for you my dear readers. 1). Should I change my blog header. I haven’t changed it for five years. Partly because I’m lazy 🙂 (I was going to put a poll here, how the heck do you do that?) 2). Should I change my avatar, across the board (flickr, typepad, etc.)? Currently: Possible: More personable? 3). Are you good at math? I thought I was but trying to figure out this passage from the Sewing Bible was driving me insane, so I had to find another site to help me. Here is what the problem is: (from…
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