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Dinah93

Yeah I know what you mean. One of the patterns I got would only work in a big, bold pattern, and despite hating the one they made it from, I keep looking for something like it when I was browsing as I had it in my head thats what it is made of!

Tete_en_l'Air

Maybe they'll teach us techniques to avoid this in class

Dinah93

I thought I had found a fabric store with patterns I like online.... then I saw what kind of store it was! Well if its good enough for the Von Traps....

All the New Look patterns are here Tete you can have a browse before you go to Boyes. The numbers are the same instore.

If anyone knows a good online fabric store please tell me.

Dinah93

EEEEk! Just read the back of one of the pattern packets. A size 10 measures as 32 1/2 inch bust, 25 inch waist, 34 1/2 inch hips..... I'm coming in at about a 14!!!

Tete_en_l'Air

Hehe, well she said sometiems a size 10 ends up being a size 18, dread to think what I'll be then! At this rate we'll NEED curtains to cover our hefty bulks!

I quite like 6765 but I think it might be a nighty!

Dinah93

I'm most worried that they all seem to be the same length, and its not very long. You're going to have to do a maxi dress to get a knee length one - the waist will be somewhere up across your ribs!

Tete_en_l'Air

Hmm, that's a problem I have with shop-bought clothes and I was hoping making my own might erradicate it. Maybe they'll show us how to scale patterns up or down according to our size? It's going to cost me a bomb in fabric isn't it?!

Dinah93

Some of the fabrics are about £2 a metre, I have no idea how much we need though as on the back of the pattern everything is in yards!!!

Tete_en_l'Air

1 yard = 90cm if that helps, ah those days on the habby counter weren't wasted!

Just been browsing pin cushions (not getting ANY work done today obviously!) - saw this and thought of Cinny.

Tete_en_l'Air

Oh my goodness!