Re: [h-cost] h-cost] What's your dressmaker dummy wearing and sewing affliction
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 9:56 pm, Chris Laning wrote: > At 3:03 PM -0500 12/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In a message dated 05/12/2006 19:04:35 GMT Standard Time, > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I've thought about that a lot. I think I have a severe fear of making > >> that initial cut into "virgin" fabric. Anyone else suffer from this? > > > >completely - with expensive or hard to get fabric. > > I once shared a house with a friend who made her living as a > seamstress. She said she got a lot of business from brides who > started out intending to make their own dresses, but chickened out > when it came to cutting the expensive fabric... I believe it. Though I tend to be squeamish about making the first cuts, even if I'm using budget fabric. Guess it's just the irrevocability of the act; you can't really "uncut" fabric. :-) -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] h-cost] What's your dressmaker dummy wearing and sewing affliction
At 3:03 PM -0500 12/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 05/12/2006 19:04:35 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've thought about that a lot. I think I have a severe fear of making that initial cut into "virgin" fabric. Anyone else suffer from this? completely - with expensive or hard to get fabric. I once shared a house with a friend who made her living as a seamstress. She said she got a lot of business from brides who started out intending to make their own dresses, but chickened out when it came to cutting the expensive fabric... -- OChris Laning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] h-cost] What's your dressmaker dummy wearing and sewing affliction
> I've thought about that a lot. I think I have a severe fear of making that > initial cut into "virgin" fabric. Anyone else suffer from this? completely - with expensive or hard to get fabric. I use to have that problem big time, but now, the more I use such fabrics, the less I am intimidated by them. Now, taking apart a garment to remake it... I can't go there, the garments got to be really, really wrong before I'll take something apart and remake it. I'll find "cheats around such things so I don't have to take it apart. Like that 3" gap, I'd get a "privacy" panel of like or same fabric and insert it behind the lacings. I have a gown that was pearled, with the "perfect" Elizabethan style woven patterned fabric, that got washed and shrunk. It's taken me four years to decide to take it apart, part of the way and remake it for my granddaughter. alex ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] h-cost] What's your dressmaker dummy wearing and sewing affliction
In a message dated 05/12/2006 19:04:35 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've thought about that a lot. I think I have a severe fear of making that > initial cut into "virgin" fabric. Anyone else suffer from this? completely - with expensive or hard to get fabric. imagine what I'll be like in a few weeks with the silk doublet I have to make. the silk's £70+ per metre!! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
