PATTERNS
Have you noticed how many ways you can buy patterns today?
You open a sewing book or magazine and you're likely to find
patterns inside. Some are full sized while others must be copied
and enlarged. Every issue of Sew Beautiful that I've bought has
had not just one but several patterns inside, something I
personally find delightful. So for the price of the book or
magazine you also get a pattern
Some such as Simplicity's Art to Wear designed by Shirley
Botsford are found in the center of a book of instructions. Pick
up any Kwik-Sew Book and you'll find the master pattern
included.
Patterns are sold as companions to books: Sewing the New
Classics by Carol Parks and The Stretch & Sew Guide To
Sewing On Knits by Ann Person are two that come to mind. Then
of course there are the patterns we usually buy McCall's, Vogue
etc. Take a look around you'll find them everywhere, check out
the wonderful variety of patterns available. There are patterns
for everyone, it doesn't matter whether you're a beginner or an
accomplished seamstress. One thing I can promise is that you'll
have fun looking!
SEW FUNNY
My youngest daughter Rachel was laughing about her one and
only attempt at sewing today. When she was about sixteen she
had to take a sewing class in school, they taught her the basics
so she decided she was ready to sew a whole outfit. Well she
rummaged through my stash and found just the fabric she wanted
to use, a nice blue velour. The pattern she chose was for a loose
fitting sweat suit so she had no problem cutting it out and
marking it. Rachel had the top done in no time but when it came
to the pants I wasn't around and she figured the top was easy,
why not the pants. She stitched them up and when I came home
she went upstairs to put on her new outfit. The whole family was
waiting to see her efforts and congratulate her, but when she
stepped into the living room everyone just stared. For a minute
we couldn't figure out what was wrong with the pants, then it
came to me, Rachel had sewn straight across the from the
bottom of one pant leg to the other. When I told her we'd have to
take out the stitches and redo them she didn't want to go to the
trouble so Rachel ended up with the first MC Hammer pants in
the neighborhood in fact the only Hammer pants. She wore those
pants and all her friends thought it was really cool that she had
pants like MC Hammer.
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