Re: [h-cost] OT OP greasy-strings hairdressing???

2012-10-09 Thread Marjorie Wilser
hmm. . . the new wet dreds? Honestly, I don't know. I wonder sometimes about the heavy teenage girls I see wearing skintight hip hugging skirts, bare belly rolls over the top of them, and too-short tops. Maybe it falls under whatever was she thinking? baffling, indeed. ==Marjorie Wilser

Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters

2012-10-09 Thread lisa58
Maybe your daughter is a shapeshifter and didn't tell you? Yours in costumign, Lisa A On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:47:03 -0700 Julie jtknit...@gmail.com writes: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress

Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters

2012-10-09 Thread Nadine Pelikan
--- Everything that Cin asked and... Which pattern did you use? Is the stretching only in the bodice? Did you flat line the bodice? Did you pipe the neckline, arm holes and waist? Is the fabric a print or a woven plaid? Did you make sure that you were on the straight of grain before you

Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters

2012-10-09 Thread Cin
... Those are all good Qs, too and... are you *SURE* it's not a stretch fabric? Many are stealth-stretch like stretch velour, stretch demin. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nadine Pelikan nadine...@yahoo.com wrote: --- Everything that Cin asked and...

Re: [h-cost] OT OP greasy-strings hairdressing???

2012-10-09 Thread Data-Samtak Susan
On Oct 9, 12, at 3:12 AM, Marjorie Wilser wrote: heavy teenage girls I see wearing skintight hip hugging skirts, bare belly rolls over the top of them, and too-short tops. Oh but they are in style And don't make any negative comments because you will ruin their self esteem.

Re: [h-cost] OT OP greasy-strings hairdressing???

2012-10-09 Thread Marjorie Wilser
I know. . . they will hate their yearbooks, that's for sure :) ==Marjorie Wilser @..@ @..@ @..@ Three Toad Press http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Data-Samtak Susan wrote: On Oct 9, 12, at 3:12 AM, Marjorie Wilser wrote: heavy teenage girls I see wearing

Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters

2012-10-09 Thread Elizabeth H.
I have bought nice 100% cotton quilting fabric for a quilt project in the past where 2 of the colors of the same exact fabric behaved beautifully but the third color stretched like mad for no apparent reason (even after hi heat wash/dry/iron/starching all three colors). It made piecing the quilt a