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Posted by Karen Maslowski on January 15, 2006, 4:43 pm
Joy, thanks for posting the site with the info on shifts. I just
finished reading Diana Gabaldon's new book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes,
and the two main women in the book spend an awful lot of their time in
their shifts. I had a much different vision of what this meant, thinking
that it was a sleeveless garment! That makes a bit of a difference in
what kind of a predicament it was to be caught in just your shift. :)
Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
Wild Ginger Software Certified Educator
joy beeson wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2006 15:29:25 -0800, "180sewing"
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>>Is it worth paying for sewing patterns or are there enough free
>>ones availavle to keep me busy?
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> You can keep sewing forever without using any patterns at
> all. Patterns were not possible until paper got cheap, and
> were still a novel idea at the beginning of the twentieth
> century, but people way back when wore clothing more
> sophisticated than what we are wearing now.
>
> You buy a pattern because you like the design.
>
> I just downloaded a free design that I like:
> http://www.marariley.net/shift/shift.htm
> I think I'll make a flannel nightgown -- or poking around in
> the stash may give me another idea. I will, of course,
> use the neckline from my poncho shirt instead of the one
> that was fashionable in the eighteenth century.
>
> The page doesn't mention -- because it's familiar to her
> audience -- that a shift is supposed to consume every square
> inch of your piece of fabric.
>
> Joy Beeson
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