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From: MaryW
Date: 01-28-2005, 10:16 AM (1 of 22)
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What was your first successful sewing project? Mine was a little outfit for my daughter. It was a lined vest and pants to match. She looked really cute and I have never forgotten it.
MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: smith972
Date: 01-28-2005, 12:01 PM (2 of 22)
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PJ's for the all the kids about 4 xmas's ago.... They still have them Jada |
User: smith972
Member since: 09-10-2004 Total posts: 241 
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From: Sewhappie
Date: 01-28-2005, 01:04 PM (3 of 22)
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DD's first b'day dress and DS's Prom out fit have to be my favortie ones. http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=mxgor8r.e45ouuf&x=1&y=-6kphbv http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=mxgor8r.wivivxj&x=1&y=nrs32d or just type "sewhappie". to get in to see closer pics. |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 01-28-2005, 01:48 PM (4 of 22)
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I think the skirt I made in 7th grade would qualify. I wore it to school so it must have been ok. It was a green print, gathered at the waist. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Magot
Date: 01-28-2005, 02:24 PM (5 of 22)
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Dare I mention the psychodelic purple hot pants? Yeah, Baby! Feel my MoJo!
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-28-2005, 02:26 PM (6 of 22)
I should have known. 
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-28-2005, 02:35 PM (7 of 22)
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A little pink satin number with silver rick-rack...light blue tulle over-skirt with silver star sequins...silver shoes to match.... For my Barbie....  I was 6.....
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: Hogmami
Date: 01-28-2005, 02:39 PM (8 of 22)
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Some baby doll clothes I made for my sister's doll. I didn't play with dolls when I was little but she did.
Carolyn
Michigan |
User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 01-28-2005, 02:41 PM (9 of 22)
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Dark green print princess fitted dress w/short sleeves; I wore it for the first time when I went to meet my future inlaws in 1960. I think I had that dress for about 10 years. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: Magot
Date: 01-28-2005, 02:53 PM (10 of 22)
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There I was Chrys imagining you in that pink satin decorated with ferrets when you popped my bubble - actually I suppose the first thing in that sense was some felt lederhosen for my troll.(remember them)
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-28-2005, 03:07 PM (11 of 22)
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LMAO !!! I had LOTS of trolls...they were always naked...(and left outside in the NM sun... )
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: Magot
Date: 01-28-2005, 03:52 PM (12 of 22)
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My daughters bought me tiny troll earings with shocking pink hair a few years ago. The size of the ones that fit on the ends of pencils. I wore the with pride. I have made glamour clothes for My Little Pony as well - and still do!
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: auzzi
Date: 01-28-2005, 08:49 PM (13 of 22)
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First fully completed project was a lined corduroy mini-skirt with a box pleat. Took me two years in middle high school and my sewing teacher later told me that she thought that getting that completed was one of her teaching sewing "triumphs". [mine too!!] It took me nearly ten years to take up sewing as a pleasurable activity. |
User: auzzi
Member since: 10-28-2003 Total posts: 56 |
From: sewingrandma
Date: 01-28-2005, 09:28 PM (14 of 22)
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A red suit for my Teddy Bear. Made the pattern myself. I was all of 7. Even used Mom's sewing machine.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: M & M's Mom
Date: 01-28-2005, 09:35 PM (15 of 22)
...mine would be a couple of maternity blouses I sewed for myself on a Singer Treadle thirty-some years ago (I was wearing my husband's shirts at the time). I bought the machine at a garage sale for $15 and pushed it home down the back alley. I still have it...it still works...I am going to be buried with it. We're both a little old fashioned. 
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User: M & M's Mom
Member since: 12-01-2004 Total posts: 102 |
From: Mom of Six
Date: 01-28-2005, 09:53 PM (16 of 22)
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The summer before I turned 11 I made myself shorts & top outfits with my Mom's help. I wore them with pride.
Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 01-28-2005, 11:06 PM (17 of 22)
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Mine was a pink apron with blue ric rac and 4 pockets. I made it in Home Ec class in grade 7. Believe it or not, I still have it! I found it in the bottom of a drawer a few years ago and I am actually using it as my "clothes pin" apron when I hang clothes on the line. Notice I am not saying how many years have past since I was in grade 7. We will leave that to everyone's imagination....
TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366 
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From: pucktricks
Date: 01-29-2005, 12:07 AM (18 of 22)
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First successful project that wasn't just sewing straight lines (my sewing instructor in 4-H had us make a baby blanket first and then a towel wrap), but my first successful project that actually used a pattern was some red pull on shorts. I even had a shirt that was jazzed up to wear with it, it had two button holes right next to each other that I could pull a strip of cloth through to make a bow. Ticia |
User: pucktricks
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 570 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 01-29-2005, 09:34 AM (19 of 22)
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Well if we're counting doll clothes -- Pearl was one of the best dressed in town. Hogmami -- you must have been a good sister. My oldest daughter would make doll clothes for all her sister's friends but Amber's poor Barbies didn't get any. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: toadusew
Date: 01-29-2005, 10:00 AM (20 of 22)
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I made an apron in home ec class in 7th grade and a sleeveless dress in a so-called sewing school that summer, but I consider my first sucessful sewing project to be the hand smocked jumper and blouse that I made for my youngest daughter. I smocked the front and back of the little jumper in white (the fabric was a solid red) and then put it together--it was an easy pattern that buttoned on the shoulders. The blouse was long sleeved with cuffs, had a peter pan collar and buttoned down the front. It was made out of of a Christmas print to go with the jumper. After making this, I started sewing more and haven't stopped since!
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User: toadusew
Member since: 01-08-2005 Total posts: 369 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 01-30-2005, 09:46 AM (21 of 22)
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A doll dress I made when I was 8, it was from a real pattern with facings and all (I remember cutting it out vividly, notches!!) I sewed it on my little orange plastic machine (circa 1975) long gone now, wish I still had it for my kids
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: mamagoose
Date: 02-06-2005, 01:03 PM (22 of 22)
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My first 4-H project - an elastic waist strawberry print skirt with matching drawstring bag! (a long time ago)
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User: mamagoose
Member since: 01-26-2002 Total posts: 168 |
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