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What is your favorite pattern? Post here or at my website.

For my husband, it's Simplicity 9633 (because I started using it before there was a Margo's men's pattern).
For my son, it's Simplicity 5517 (highly edited for a separate shirt, and fusing pieces to make his embroidered wool coat).
For me...I have pretty much been using self drafted patterns ( Read more... )

So I just want to know, what is everyone’s favorite pattern(s) to use for period costuming. (Post yours in the comment section please!)

1) Period (examples: Medieval, Tudor, Elizabethan, 18th C-Early, 18th C-Rev War, Victorian…)

2) Pattern (company name, designation, view. Examples: Simplicity 9633 viewB -Doublet, Margo’s Patterns Tudor Lady’s ( Read more... )

I’m just pissed off.

Reconstructing History patterns have never been “Great” patterns. They’ve been “Ok” at best. The sizing is horrible for the larger sizes, and when it says size X will fit size Y measurements, it really means size X will fit size V measurements. Ok, so I can live with fixing some of this stuff for getting the scaled up pattern ( Read more... )

Thanks to the Friday night gaming group guys my pattern cabinet is now in my sewing room. HUZZAH!
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Thanks to the Friday night gaming group guys my pattern cabinet is now in my sewing room. HUZZAH!
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