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From: mama2redheads
Date: 10-17-2006, 04:25 PM (1 of 6)
| As in, how do you protect a pattern in order to reuse it multiple times? I would like to make several dresses using the same pattern pieces, but I'm not sure how to do this. Thanks! |
User: mama2redheads
Member since: 06-08-2006 Total posts: 11 |
From: AndreaSews
Date: 10-17-2006, 05:45 PM (2 of 6)
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haha Sewing for Children is about the best place I can think of for this topic, because children keep Growwwwwing. If you play your cards right, you can use the same patterns again year after year! It's a popular question. Here are a couple of similar threads from earlier this year, with tons of differerent approaches: http://swn-archive.sew-whats-up.com/t-19689.html&highlight=tracing http://swn-archive.sew-whats-up.com/t-19145.html&highlight=tracing Andrea
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User: AndreaSews
Member since: 02-18-2005 Total posts: 1007 
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From: Pudge99
Date: 10-17-2006, 06:33 PM (3 of 6)
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Tracing is the way most of us go. Sometimes if it is something that I am going to use a lot (like a diaper pattern) I make a cardboard pattern. First I trace onto tissue paper then I glue that to the side of cardboard box and cut that out.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: Sews4kate
Date: 10-17-2006, 10:06 PM (4 of 6)
I trace onto tissue paper then iron that onto freezer paper 
Wendy
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User: Sews4kate
Member since: 08-20-2005 Total posts: 182 |
From: mama2redheads
Date: 10-18-2006, 10:30 PM (5 of 6)
| Thank you everybody; this gives me plenty of things to try out. |
User: mama2redheads
Member since: 06-08-2006 Total posts: 11 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 11-03-2006, 03:46 PM (6 of 6)
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I fuse the pattern tissue with cheap fusible non-woven interfacing
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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