I would love to have one. Spring's coming, there're so many thing need to fix. Women gain some extra pounds that would make a lot of changing sizes. I need fresh ideas for restyling....:) Cross the fingers for these giveaways...

Thank you. And yeah she loved it and looked awwsome in this costume.

Thanks alot for loving my work :)

I had obssessed fashion and sewing long long time ago but never attended to any sewing class. I self-taught myself to sew and design what I loved. Wish me luck for this CD cause I love it. I 've never missed any Teach yourself to sew article on Threads. Thanks!!!

I sew ... simply that I love to and upgrade my skills ... better and better everyday!!!

Good job Fred. I like it :)

Made your own wedding dress - Your inspiration should be amazed by so many young girls and women who love to sew and make something realy special for their special point of life - a great work to be very proud of...

wow she and her friends must be so proud of you, so beautiful dresses. Great work... This is so inspiration!!! I wish I could do like you :)

I like it... You did a good job to reconstruct the dress. Keep up your good work :)

I just took a look back at the issue #150, the main photo for the blouse pattern with inserted stripes was a different shirt. The stripes inserted were flower pattern on red color base. And the shirt posted here which was presented for the Zigzag a constrasting inner collar stand.

Hope it helps everyone not to be confused between the instructions and the actual posted shirt in this post.

Wow... This is so cool. I love it.

I agree the idea that create the stripes for a cool pattern.

But my first look without reading the instruction, can see right away to stripes were not balanced especially the collar. For me that was a mistake. With this certain pattern I don't buy it, may be I am a picky person, I would use bias cut and use the same stripes and turn the opposite way for left and right shirt to make them balanced like 1,2,3,4 - 4,3,2,1 ... My opionion :)

I like #2. I agree with annelizabeth that garment looks much better and live on the model than on a boring dressform.

I had "The basic book of Macrame & Tatting" published 1973 and printed in Hongkong, during one trips to St.Jacob, a small town name Elora. The book was sold .50cents. Great book but I've never spent enough time to finish one good project.

Great technique. I bought a lot of leather cords offwhite, black, red, tan and grey to decorate my boots. Great idea for a braided belt.
Thanks for sharing.

Got a good news for this outfit. It was chosen to be printed on Threads Magazine August/September 2010 Issue# 150. Thanks Threads to create such a nice place for us sharing our sewing passions.

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You did a great job. Very nice. I wished I could make one for my wedding like yours. Now I have to wait for my special wedding anniversary :)

I love Threads and feel so greatful that one of my items (Outfit for Office ... like Pro) was chosen to be printed in Readers Closet section - this Issue and that I can share my work, my sewing experience to all Threads readers around the world.

My special Thanks Sarah McFarland who helped me alot to publish this item and thanks to Threads who created such a place for us to share our sewing passion.

I was so blessed that I got my first order on Etsy account yesterday - the same day I received this Threads Issue.

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It's great if we can sew for our children, grandchildren. I would love to have one. If I'm not lucky to have one I would buy one.

My son told me he wanted to learn how to sew . What a surprise! And I thought it was great if he could do it. This book would be perfect for him to start. Thank you!!!

Hi there,

It's nice from you to think about your sister-in-laws. Kind of hard to make one if you don;t know the goose's size. I don't have the pattern but check out this website, price arranges from $20-$40

http://www.lawngoosedesigns.com

You might find something that caught your eyes.

Gotta love the book. Thanks for giving us the oppotunity to get this giveaway book. Love Threads Magazine also...

Seems a great book. Definitely love to have one to learn making things for children. Wish me luck!!!

Dear Sarah,
I did try to find some apps like these before for my iphone but failed. I got iConvert and iDictionary already. Love high technology. The fabricstash is amazing. There are so many pieces of fabrics I bought long time ago that I could not remember what types, how much I had, sale prices... but right now I have my fabrics sorted by colors and seasons. My stash now is full of 4 2-door storages :)... Well, now I know what I have, whenever I stop by Fabric stores I can take a look at my stash and could find the best piece to match to each other.
This is Great idea and Bravo to high-techno!!!
Thanks for sharing this.

Congratulations! I admired your creative work.

Thank you all again for your nice comments on my dress. Unlucky it was not chosen to the finalists but that did not let me down at all. Lots of nice designs posted and I learned from them, gave myself ideas for my designs. Design for Life!!!
Visit my website to see more of my projects
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This is so cool. It seems so comfortable with this design especially vests' sleeves are totally tight and fit to the arms. Thanks so much for sharing this.

Nice job Mirela. I like it alot.

I love it. Beautiful idea and combination

Thank you so much. These mean alot to me. This is inspiration for me to keep up my works - Design for Life!

She is the lucky girl. You did such a great work, soooo cute.

It's nice to know about Threads people. And thanks to April Mohr for sharing this to us their talented works and lives. I did not have a chance to work with or attend any class but inspired and loved what they have done and contributed for Threads and Readers.

Beautitful dress. Way to go for Spring. Your daughter is so lucky and very proud of her mama...

I'm happy that Seth won this season. Even I did not have chance to watch the whole season but for the last 5 shows he deseved to be a WINNER. I thought we were looking for a potential designer who had a different vision in fashion and created his own product signature. His collection was so stunning. Every single outfit had a strong look, so character and totally runway features. I did not think it had to be wearable. If you walked along Queen Street West or Kenshington Market in downtown Toronto you could see alots of women and young girls wearing kind of the same. Of course they were not even high-end or clean look like Seth collection. For me, I will put on more than half of his collection.
For Emilio and Mila, their collection had nothing new, which you can see in every shopping malls. But my opinion Mila should be second.

Thank you all for your comments. These mean a lot to me.

Ambitious, Your question really brought my memory back. Thanks for reminding me about my early sewing experience. I started sewing for myself at the end of highschool (1987). Just some simple button down shirts, sleeping dresses and pants for myself and my brother; made some hand-embroidered strap bags during my college. There was a gap about 3 years I'd never touch my mom sewing machine. Then when my bank requested wearing uniform (dark blue skirt and white shirt)I started again for my own uniform. Actually I earned some money from my colleages as I was asked to make skirts for them. That was around 1994. There was another big gap here - No sewing at all till 2005 when I moved to Canada and later on my husband brought home a Kenmore sewing machine and a serge for my 34th birthday and Xmas gifts. Caused of everthing here was so expensive compared with prices in Vietnam :) and my custom clothes there, I really went back to sewing.

The interesting was I learned to do think by just seeing how people did it or figured out myself how the item was made, the techniques, the shapes, the color combinations, and fashion trends on some professional website then practise... That's me now as I make clothes, stuff for my house, do some crafts...I cut my hairs and for my family (my husband and my sons never gone to barber's for years) and I do my own nail arts painting...

Thanks again and here is my website where I'm sharing my work
http://cloudyhn.webs.com/blog/ then you can select by categories for each subject. Hope you enjoy it.

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Thank you all for your comments. These mean a lot to me.

Ambitious, Your question really brought my memory back. Thanks for reminding me about my early sewing experience. I started sewing for myself at the end of highschool (1987). Just some simple button down shirts, sleeping dresses and pants for myself and my brother; made some hand-embroidered strap bags during my college. There was a gap about 3 years I'd never touch my mom sewing machine. Then when my bank requested wearing uniform (dark blue skirt and white shirt)I started again for my own uniform. Actually I earned some money from my colleages as I was asked to make skirts for them. That was around 1994. There was another big gap here - No sewing at all till 2005 when I moved to Canada and later on my husband brought home a Kenmore sewing machine and a serge for my 34th birthday and Xmas gifts. Caused of everthing here was so expensive compared with prices in Vietnam :) and my custom clothes there, I really went back to sewing.

The interesting was I learned to do think by just seeing how people did it or figured out myself how the item was made, the techniques, the shapes, the color combinations, and fashion trends on some professional website then practise... That's me now as I make clothes, stuff for my house, do some crafts...I cut my hairs and for my family (my husband and my sons never gone to barber's for years) and I do my own nail arts painting...

Thanks again and here is my website where I'm sharing my work
http://cloudyhn.webs.com/blog/ then you can select by categories for each subject. Hope you enjoy it.

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Dear sewers, Thank you all . It really means alot to me. Thanks!!!

Oh little cute princess...She looks so happy and quite cute model. I like the detail you put on: flower, the trim on ruffles. You did a great work.
You made me jeoulous dear. I wanted to do like you did for your daughter but I did not have one. My boy is so big now (will be 14 in July) He just said to me last week "Mom stop making me to be ... like ...your daughter"

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What a beautiful piece of works you are sharing to us. Nice and tender ... I love it. I'm a hunger and waiting for more ...

I like your idea. Yes... why Wallpaper. I'm going to have my own sewing room as soon as my basement finished. I will have the main wall decorated by fabric as you said.
Thanks for sharing ...

It's cute,cute,cute... I have to agree with you that sometimes I don't like very much "everything was in line" like you said. I prefer free-style. I'm sure your grandbaby loves it.

I like this very much. I just wonder how you got the sharp edges of the flowers and leaves on fabric ...

wow, I love the look of this necklace. You are very ceative.

Thank you all for your comments that encourage me so much. AODAI is one of Vietnamese Signatures to the world that I love to share through this project ...

I'm kind of a finisher MO. I always want to see how my project looks like. But it seems nothing could stop me buying because I have so many ideas, projects that I want to make. It ends up that I have 4 2-door warddropes that full of fabrics - all kinds. Let says ... I'm still LEARNING... :)

Even there're so many ideas but only when all of the project' details are cleared in my mind, it's about time for cutting and will not stop till I finish it.

I just finished my Modernized Vietnamese AODAI and about to start another project for Spring - Flower Lattice - Crochet. I saw the lattice during my trip to St. Jacob long time ago. I guessed it was plastic cross-stitch. But I like crochet. I would make the flower tender and softer.

Perfect technique for working on bias. I love it. Thanks for sharing

I like every single idea that you had gathered here. We are about finishing our basement and I will have my own sewing room for the first time :) This helps me come up with my idea for storing threads too. Thanks for sharing with us.

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Hi Victoria,
I'm wondering about the color. The floral silk piece I had which is Roses and Daily Lilies combined so many colors light pink, cherry pink, purple, green, black ... based on light pink backgound.

Has it to be solid color? or it's ok for printed floral?
Thanks!

GREAT CONTEST. I'm so excited and want to complete my project as soon as possible.

wow ... They're all beautiful. I love all of them. I'm learning to make special occational dresses for girls and christening gowns. I'm doing hand-embroidered on those. Your work make me thinking about getting embroider machine. Thanks for showing us.

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You did a great job on those bags. I love them and the idea.

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I have banking career but love fashions and designed by myself half of my closet (and stitched without pattern). I love to participate to the contest but unfortunately it's opened for US residents only (I'm in Canada). I hope there will be others ... and like challenging myself.

I love threads magazine.

It's cute. I kind of like it

I love the show both in US and Canada. I just wonder how we can apply for Project Runway Show. Is there anybody knows how?

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Very unique. That's what we are talking about - Creative. I lurv it.


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