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Posted by ama1 on May 30, 2007, 5:34 pm
> Ok. Once you have made that switching of gears, you're fine. ;)
> Gorgeous
> work BTW. Very fun! There's a lot of us here that never quite got over
> our love of playing with dolls. ;) Just remember...when you have a
> fitting on a doll she won't gripe if you poke her with a pin on
> accident...live people tend to get fussy about that sort of thing tho.
> LOL
>
>
I have said for year that this is the main reason I sew for dolls. If they
really tick me off I can toss them in a drawer and
walk away. :)
> Honey! Don't even get me started. My hackles are up just reading that.
> I've been a stay home mom for more than 11 years now. Even in the years
> when I didn't own my own custom sewing and alterations business, it's
> WORK.
> This article takes some of the sting out of that...nice to know some
> folks "get it." lol
>
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/03/study_us_mothers_deserve_134121_in_salary/
>
> Have you done full sized work before? Your skills are there. Your work
> is
> lovely. So don't worry about that so much.
Haven't sewn full scale since my daughter was little which is what/ 1/2
scale?
>
> So be careful. Yeah I know, "Duh, Sharon, thanks." lol There are very
> few
> things in the sewing room that are not fixable.
One time I embroirdered a tee shirt completely upside down. I ended up
cutting a rectangle around the design,
rotating it and re attaching it with a lace boarder.
Looked pretty good in the end,...thankfully!
Mary
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