The Poultry Keeper

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1325 Location: Leicestershire

She's off to a wedding at the weekend (take no notice of the hair)

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CP · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:59 am Post subject:

Very nice! Very Happy

(I hate all these clever folk who make stuff that looks b****y fantastic! Rolling Eyes

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(says she, who can just about sew a straight line & put a button on! Embarassed

) I've had curtain material for Jonathan's room since just after Easter - still not made the curtains yet! Embarassed

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1325 Location: Leicestershire

Sorry!

It's probably one of the nicest looking things I've ever made - dressmaking wise, haven't done any for years, then my son wanted to make himself a jacket, so we tackled that together, then he progressed onto making his girlfriend a dress ( Rolling Eyes

don't ask!) so he bought that pattern, then my friend - Nicky was going to a wedding and liked the pattern so I offered to make it. I'm old enough to have gone to a school where needlework was taught, we had a wonderful teacher, Miss Caldwell.

The biggest difficulty with any job - like your curtains is starting it. I've a pair up in the bathroom that I made when I first moved here and they are still not hemmed (7 years - what a slut that I haven't taken them down in all that time) See it's not all glory, there's loads of dust swept under the carpet Laughing

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Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2380 Location: South Cumbria

I used to make a lot of my clothes but much harder to find patterns and fabric nowadays especially if like me you live in the sticks ! maybe I should look again is it cost effective now with Asda and Tesco and the like selling clothes ?
So sorry forgot to say it is a lovely dress Embarassed

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1325 Location: Leicestershire

To be quite honest, I buy most of my clothes from charity shops these days, in fact apart from underwear I haven't bought anything new for years, there are 6 in Melton Mowbray so plenty of choice. The pattern for the dress came off the internet, there is a very nice fabric shop in Melton (closing down) but he only has McCalls patterns, although I didn't know that at the time, my son had seen a dress he liked on ebay and asked if we could make one like it so I Googled and there was a complete range, including American stuff that you'd never get over here in the shops, fabric of course is a different matter altogether as you have to "feel" it first. There's also sometimes a good selection of vintage patterns on ebay, I rather fancy a 50's style dress with a big collar, when I can dance properly to do it justice I'm going to make one.

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CP · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1325 Location: Leicestershire

Somewhere tucked away I have a cross stitch pattern with a very cross looking mouse on it in an apron and mop cap and she's saying "You can touch my dust but please don't write in it" That's me. Laughing

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CP · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2380 Location: South Cumbria

I have the same on a fridge magnet also 'My house was clean last week - sorry you missed it !'

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1325 Location: Leicestershire

I want one

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 6954 Location: isle of lewis

lovely dress ,you are cleaver may be you could answer this for me ,the children have proms coming up what an earth is the difference between a prom dress and a ball gown is there one ,i'm the same as you i did sew ,but i tend to go to charity shops to buy clothes ,and this is totally beyond me Embarassed

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1325 Location: Leicestershire

I don't really know apart from the fact that Prom Dress seems to be an American term, there are lots of "prom" dresses and patterns on ebay, but they seem to be no different from say a ball gown, the dress for my friend is cocktail - so it's flashy but short and in my mind a ball gown used to be long but not necessarily so these days, I think maybe it's just a trendy modern term for a special occasion dress, hopefully somebody else will come along and put us right.

It was the wedding today - hope she's not spilt red wine down it Laughing

I lied when I said I never bought anything new for myself - I went to the Dairy Event yesterday and bought a set of waterproof work clothes. I have tried them out today and come home clean and dry Smile

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Fenn · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 2292 Location: Shrewsbury

Just wanted to say - what a fabulous dress! Very Happy

Oh, and I've been meaning to make a new curtain for the front of my son's tv unit for 2 years - I've got the material and it's a half hour job really, I just never seem to find that half hour... Embarassed

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2067 Location: North Cornwall

Great dress, great figure in it as well Wink

Those were the days. Laughing

Shiny fabric is the pits to sew so I think you have done a brilliant job Laughing

I buy from the charity shops as well and thats the stuff I wear. The stuff very very occasionally bought from the proper shops is left unworn and is for me a waste of money.

But I never learn Laughing

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

Being from the US... A Prom dress is a formal dress, long, specifically worn for the Senior Prom at High School. (for young women). Ball gown is more 'mature'... but really not any difference, LOL