Just to add to your observations. It is cheaper to buy clothing at WalMart
than it is to make it yourself. When you have to pay ten bucks for a pattern
and you can buy a blouse for eight dollars guess which most people will do. At
a place in time when so many people are so busy and "multi tasking" is the
norm, too many people don't have the time (nor sadly, the ability) to sew.
People new to SCA or Ren Faires or re-enacting are the exception. They are not
going to get their garb off the rack in a discount store and most of them are
not accomplished at making up their own patterns. People like Martha are a
godsend to them because they can purchase a pattern that will pass inspection
(to all but the really critical) and that they can understand. It takes a bit
of experience to deal with some of the period patterns or to work from a
charted pattern on a book page.
To cut this rambling short, I just want to add my "Bravo Martha" and hope that
Simplicity has sense enough to know what a gem they have!
Lalah, Never give up, Never surrender
--- Mia Dappert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mia Dappert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:28:38 -0800 (PST)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [h-cost] Re:patterns
actually, Simplicity may be really gald they have you, Martha. Read that
SHOULD BE GLAD.
Down here in North Carolina it seems to be the home sewing market is really
dried up in the past 10 or so years. Nobody is sewing for children, Nobody is
really doing sewing for themselves, There are really no fabric stores in a
100 mile radius of Charlotte beyond, Mary Jos and Hancock's, and mostly they
have home deck and quilting fabric, not much in the way of people type fabric.
The nearest JoAnns in 90+ miles away. There are several stores at cater to the
quilting segment, and one small one that sell Upmarket/Highend fabrics. A this
is an introduction to Major Patter Companies can't be selling a huge amount of
home sewing patterns. Right now, all I can think of who are doing sewing are
the reenactment/costume folks like us. And these are people who will go
ANYWHERE, Look at everything, Buy patterns that they don't really need but
collect anyway, Have projects in the planning stage for a long time.
It would be interesting to know how well the patterns do in comparison to
other costume patterns and general run of the mill patterns vs. home dec stuff.
18c Mia in Charlotte NC, remembering the glory days of being near Baltimore
MD and Washington DC. Remembering G Street Fabrics when it actually was on G
Street DC
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