Can anybody help? I'm looking for information on the sewing geometry of the Tailor's 'S'. As I understand it, it's a method of stitching material that produces a neat turn around a right angled bend instead of leaving a fold of unwanted material. TIA.

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Hi all, In northeast OH where I live people are going crazy making "no sew-two sided-polar fleece blankets. My question is this a local thing or are they as popular every where? Thanks Ilene

Does anyone know what is 'Foamcore,' mentioned in a Vogue pattern. I have asked several shops here in Perth WA, Do you know a like product, Cheers

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Welcome Sewists and new posters! Here are some guidelines to posting to the sewing newsgroups. In case you are wondering where you are and how you got here, you are in a newsgroup, AKA "usenet" which is a part of the internet that has been around much much longer than the www, which it is not a...

I need some advice so I thought this would be the best place ask! My highschool semi formal is coming up in a couple of months, and I've been searching far and wide for a dress, but to no avail. I was on the net last night and found THE perfect...

Hello everyone! My name is Virginia, I am a 100% newbie at sewing with machines and I have recently bought a portable sewing machine through ebay and I've got a technical problem now. After a few stichtes, the bottom thread is not coming out anymore, it stays inside the machine. Everything works...

Hi everyone I have finished my fashion design education and am setting up m homebased plus size fashion design business I am seeking information and opinions about some EXCELLENT patternmakin software.....also fashion illustration/design software I am capable of designing and making patterns on...

I made one for the first time tonight, but the blanket doesn't lay flat, and it is actually concave! Seems like I pulled the knots/fringes too tight, but how tight am I suppose to make the knots? Help!

Can anyone explain to me or point to a website which shows how to shorten trousers. I can give $16 to the local rip-off korean laundry/altering shop who use a machine and do a butchering job... but I would like to know how I can do it myself or buy some machine (maybe a hand held sewing gizmos)...

Does anyone know of a product that can be applied to fabric, or some method to keep the glitter from coming off fabric onto everything? Thanks - Cathy ********************************* Cathy Hooley Goose Tracks Quilts www.goosetracks.com

Does anyone know of a website that explains how to shorten the crotch on a pattern for pants. I find when I make pants the crotch is way too low. I tried raising it, but have had no success, and I tried raising the waistband and lengthening the legs but this only works with really simple pants. ...

wrote in message ... Hi all, I have much experience in making printed circuit boards using photoetching techniques. Recently I got 10 Kgs of epoxy glass copper clad boards, double sided, from a friend that quitted...

I was fiddling tonight with a sheet of plain ole' notebook paper, cutting out a pattern for a couple of flared dart inserts (gussets in another langwedge), when I got to thinkin'. (It's a dangerous thing, thinkin' is.) What I was thinkin': How easy it is to make a pattern for some things. Take a...

My daughter-in-law is pregnant and needs 4X maternity clothes. Does anyone know of any available patterns in this size? Does anyone know of ready made clothes in this size? Thanks Karen

I have started a new yahoo group for Janome sewers called Janome Sewing-only ). I started it because the other Janome group only talked about machine embroidery, and I don't do that. If you have a Janome/New Home machine and want to join a group with others who also sew...

Hi all, I was thinking of making some blankets for my cats, silly as it may sound. They each have their own cat bed (and mine of course, which one cat usually ends up on), but being this is their first winter in a house that gets cold at night I thought making some blankets for their beds might be...

I'm new to this group and I have a question. A neighbor has a Singer 5528 for sale and I want to know if anyone has this and if you like the machine? I checked online and it's from about 1980-1982. It's only $40.00. I haven't got to see the machine, so I don't anything about it. Is it a slant? I...