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Posted by Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS on February 26, 2006, 1:00 pm
I was trying to find someone on the PACC referral list near me who would
copy a jumper that fits me perfectly, and there isn't anybody on the
list who says they do that kind of thing, and there are pitifully few
people around me anyway. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to
find someone who would do that for me?
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Posted by Olwyn Mary on February 27, 2006, 1:40 pm
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:
> I was trying to find someone on the PACC referral list near me who would
> copy a jumper that fits me perfectly, and there isn't anybody on the
> list who says they do that kind of thing, and there are pitifully few
> people around me anyway. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to
> find someone who would do that for me?
Melinda, you can handle this yourself unless it is one of those
complicated Vogue Designer styles with six thousand pieces. If you
cannot reproduce it in PMB, try the following method.
Clear off your dining table and cover it with one of those cardboard
cutting boards OR lay a sheet down on a piece of carpeted floor. Next,
lay down whatever you use for pattern paper (drafting paper, newsprint,
doctors' office examining paper, butcher paper or the back of a
discarded roll of wallpaper). Now, take your jumper and lay it on the
paper, manipulating it so that an entire piece or half piece is spread
out completely flat. At this point you may want to pin it in place for
security, which is why you are doing this on a cardboard cover or a
carpet. Next, you draw right around the seamline for that piece. Unpin
it, and wiggle the garment around until the next pattern piece is lying
flat on the paper, pin it and draw round it. Carry on in this fashion
until you have copied all the pieces, then cut them out of the paper,
remembering to add seam allowances.
The alternative, of course, is to take the jumper apart, use it to make
a pattern, then stitch it back together.
Try it, you might surprise yourself! I did, the first time I tried it.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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Posted by Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS on February 27, 2006, 2:37 pm
Olwyn Mary wrote:
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> Melinda, you can handle this yourself unless it is one of those
> complicated Vogue Designer styles with six thousand pieces. If you
> cannot reproduce it in PMB, try the following method.
Actually, I don't have the space or the time to do it myself right now.
If I did, I would have already done it, because I've done it before.
I need to find someone else to do it for me, which is why I was asking
how to find someone. If I get desperate enough, I can just take one of
the two identical jumpers (different colors) I have apart, but I really
don't want to do that. I am really kicking myself now for not buying
the one that was in the catalog a year after I first bought these, that
I didn't buy because it was a color I never would have worn, to cut
apart to make a pattern. But they haven't had the style for several
years now -- at least not in anything near my size.
I could possibly reproduce it in PMB, but it might not be *exactly* like
this one, and I would have to go through the same iterations of trying
to make it perfect that I don't have time for. So it is definitely
worth my time to just give it to someone else to do who can do a good
job and then spend the time I would have spent on it in working to earn
more money than I would have lost by doing it myself.
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Posted by Pogonip on February 27, 2006, 2:45 pm
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote:
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> I could possibly reproduce it in PMB, but it might not be *exactly* like
> this one, and I would have to go through the same iterations of trying
> to make it perfect that I don't have time for. So it is definitely
> worth my time to just give it to someone else to do who can do a good
> job and then spend the time I would have spent on it in working to earn
> more money than I would have lost by doing it myself.
Isn't this the story of our lives? When we have money, we lack time;
when we have time, there is no money. *sigh*
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS on February 27, 2006, 5:25 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> Isn't this the story of our lives? When we have money, we lack time;
> when we have time, there is no money. *sigh*
Yup. I don't particularly mind it, though. I think it is a valuable
character lesson to learn to prioritize things in life.
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