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I use light- to mid-weight interfacing, usually in 3 yard packages from Pellon. It's fusible, non-woven, machine wash. It does depend on your fabric, though! Use lighter weight interfacing on shirts than on waistbands, too! Hope that helps!
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I'm so sorry this is ridiculously late! I forgot I had a formspring... which isn't a good excuse, and you've probably already been helped, but here goes anyway:
Thanks for the compliment, deary!! All you really need to start out is a basic hobby machine--something that does forward, backward, buttonholes, and zigzagging. That's all I have, & it does the trick perfectly. My best suggestion would be to go to a sewing machine dealer (I go to my local Husquevarna/Viking one) and have them help you pick one out--they'll help you get a good priced machine that will hold up & there are often included tune ups or guarantees you wouldn't otherwise get. Cheaper is not always better, & don't bother with fancy 50-stitch machines because you'll likely never use half of them.
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ah, this is so late.. my apologies! i would consider it, if you still were interested... depending on the complexity it would be about $75-$90. You can email me if you want to pursue this further: addie@addie-marie.com
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I make them! It takes lots of time & perfecting to get it just right, & some of the patterns still aren't quite what I want them to be. But I'm going to school for that, so it's okay. :) The only thing that isn't 100% originally mine is the back curve--I drafted that from a well-fitted jacket I own because I couldn't quite pinch & pin in the back.
But an abbreviated description of my process is this: I start out with an oversized pattern that I either draw out flat or drape on my dressform--something that fits in the neck & has the right armhole length, etc.--& then I put it on and basically pinch & pin the bust/waist/hip curves til it's mostly even on both sides. Then I mark in chalk, un-pin, trim down the excess fabric, & try to make things symmetrical. I usually make a mockup to test the pattern, tweak whatever needs to be tweaked, & then it's set to go.
Sometimes I try different things... for my patchwork dress, I covered a bra cup in tape & cut it apart! I had to teach myself everything I know, so I probably don't do things the right way. But it works okay for me!
One more thing (in this massive, wordy answer)--you will be able to find basic dress patterns in all the pattern catalogs in your local fabric store. Just look at the flats instead of the sketches & photos, & they'll probably have a few of each style that are just basic that you can work off of. You have the wonderful power of being able to cut things off at the waist & just use the top, or of mixing two patterns, though I've never tried that so I can't tell you how easy it is! But have fun, no matter what. :) -
I've heard a disembodied voice! But only on the internet, haha, and that doesn't count.
Other than that, the laundry room light at home would sometimes come on when you walked through the room before we remodeled, & we used to say it was the ghost of Great-Grampa Myrl. -
Do you have any idea how much that made me smile? Thanks, doll.
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Well, I don't speak another language so this would be difficult, but probably French. Then I would move to a French vineyard and it would be fabulous.
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I was camping once with a friend, and it was about two in the morning when we heard this boat come up to our peninsula & kill the motor right near shore. So we huddled in our tent clutching cooking knives for a good couple of hours, freaking ourselves out.
I do a lot of strange things, really. -
You can assume what you like, but I really don't think I am.
Honestly, if we have to choose labels, I would go for something more along the lines of "little-conservative-woodsgirl-and-obsessive-seamstress-who-wishes-she-were-a-50's-housewife".
Additionally, the wearing of wayfarer glasses does not a hipster make.
&, um, this doesn't really sound like me, does it? [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster] -
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Well, I think you're a sweetheart. Thank you.
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As long as she isn't leading him on? I think it's perfectly okay. It's not cheating, and I think that if things are clear on both sides (which, if he knows she's engaged, they most likely are), then it's not bad.
But then, I have never been in a relationship. So maybe I'm not one to give advice. But I hope I helped, or at least made you feel better! <3 -
You are completely anonymous. Faceless, if you will.
So no, I don't know who you are, and won't find out unless you tell me.
& your secret won't show up on my page if I don't respond to it.
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Haha! I think it's the newest internet fad. A few people on Tumblr had them & it seemed amusing.
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Haha! Right now? I'd love to be in the car on the way to Mary & James' house. I don't want to have to make it through today!
But of course, being on a beach in Hawaii sounds pretty appealing right now...
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