Re: [h-cost] OT OP greasy-strings hairdressing???
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 @..@ @..@ @..@ Three Toad Press http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Oct 8, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote: Watching news tonight, noticed, again, some woman on national TV, a national-level government consultant (!) -- her hair looks like a wet string mop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
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 for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
--- 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 cut out the pieces? Nadine Pelikan On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: 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 for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
... 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... 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 cut out the pieces? Nadine Pelikan On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: 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. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] OT OP greasy-strings hairdressing???
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. Knowledge gained from 30 years as a High School classroom teacher. The sights I saw Susan NJ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] OT OP greasy-strings hairdressing???
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 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. Knowledge gained from 30 years as a High School classroom teacher. The sights I saw Susan NJ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
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 total nightmare because when I pressed the seams on the blocks the stretchy color stretched and threw the square off badly, even though everything was cut the same. So maybe she just got some of the stretchy quilting cotton that acted like linen and not cotton that I got? On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Cin cinbar...@gmail.com wrote: ... 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... 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 cut out the pieces? Nadine Pelikan On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: 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. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
