I am still trying to organize my sewing room, I am a guy so I am pretty lazy about completing projects. I have one of the largest pattern collections On the East Coast...I got a little carried away buying from lot sales thrift stores and ebay must have 1000 patterns. I am into sewing dresses and gowns, skirts, want to start learning how to make panties and lingerie(i cannot believe women are paying $15/25/35/40 for a pair of panties?thongs. bikinis. boyshorts) I can make them for about $1.00 and will sew my Foxyfashions designer label in them and only charge $5.00 a pair....LOL. I just had a disaster happen spent weeks inventorying and sorting patterns, and wouldn't you know before I could export the Inventory.xls to my other computers on home network, the hard drive crashed..! I am hoping to be able to install second hard drive and get my inventory off, the original drive it still can be recognized keep fingers crossed! I am organizing my sewing room, and need to get off my lazy butt and start sewing it has been too long! I wish I had started this back in high school I probably would have become a fashion designer. I so love the feel of fabric and the way it drapes and molds to a female form! Unfortunately, I have no one to wear the clothes that I make so I guess I will just send them to the thrift stores with design label and sizing info! I never ever cut my patterns, I bought a pretty large square glass topped coffee table and two small closet flourescent lights at HD and open patterns carefully spread them and place paper over them I have rolls of plotter paper, but other types work pattern paper, packing paper(newspaper kind) the lights shine through pattern and paper and I trace sewing lines, seam matching clips or triangles, write all the details from real pattern, on each piece and then cut those tracings out. Then refold the pattern and slid it back in envelope! I was lucky enough to find on Craigslist an ad guy that was looking to sell a light table, he then said if I took it off his hands he would give it to me for free! It has frosted plexi glass and 2 flourescent lights in it and it is counter high so I now use that to trace patterns works wonders! Plus I made a light box on my own design! I may patent it and market it! For one thing the cut outs are sturdier and don't tear as easy. You can buy pattern hangers that designers use to clip their design patterns on and hang them, or fold them and place them in manila envelopes and label them or scan and print picture from pattern. I was lucky to be able to buy from a designer that was moving and reducing, a pattern cabinet, it holds a number of my patterns but not nearly all, I have the 3 drawer plastic cabinets that hold the bulk of patterns, but I have too many to store them all! I am ready to go to Habitat for Humanity Restore store and buy a couple of the Lateral file cabinets they have that at about 36 in wide 60 inches hi and about 18 deep to consolidate and control my stock! BTW I have hundreds or large sized clothing patterns and patterns of styles I will never make, so looking for someone to make offer on the lot! I will count them and catalog the styles abrand and number so you can do research and see if you like them! I love sewing and have made some nice things, and each project gets better , my next goal is making quilt tops! I have been to the International Quilt Show a couple times in Houston and fell in love with the art work and the beautiful colors and shapes in and on the quits! They are so Breathtakingly beautiful I am in awe! I am a geometric shape guy, I love the compass point stars quilts and the art quilts that look like an oil painting or photgraph are so beautiful! Ok I have blabbed on too long but I just found this site and signed up! My guy friends rake me over the coals for liking to sew dresses and quilts, it is not macho enough, but the big Football player Rosey Greer used to do needle point....he is a huge man and I bet no one made fumn of him! I like my feminine side it is nice to feel good about fabric and style and fashion.

DOES ANYONE HAVE TYLER WENTWORTH DOLL PATTERNS ? WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SOME FOR MY DOLL ,

Not a sewing machine, but some misc blocks for a sewer / quilter. This is something each of you could do one block and send to one person to put together. I know I have seen an antique sewing machine block somewhere - maybe someone has seen it. I'm sorry she and your family has to endure this horrible disease. Making this quilt will help you all. Here is a link that might be useful: Quilter's Blocks

I used the pivot method in the Youtube video I linked to modify the front pattern piece - I don't think it's going to fit on the fabric, going to have to cut a new piece. The edge of the new armhole ends up right in the selvedge, and with only 3/8" SA I think the little holes are going to show. Plus since the narrowest point is 25" from the selvedge and I refolded to 12.5", the edge of the hem is right AT the edge of the selvedge, which is 1/2" deep so I know some holes are going to show there, unless we make it shorter. Well, then again, the hem is 1.25" deep (double the 3/8") so maybe that will be folded up into the hem and the part that actually shows will be OK. I don't know, I've got other things to worry about now. DH decided to help me this weekend by getting the deer/rabbit netting up around the garden (permanently installed T posts with ENT conduit extensions to 7ft). But he trenched 3 sides and filled in with bark mulch, I think to try to keep weeds from creeping in (he just didn't do the side where my strawberries are creeping in, so I can move them). Now the plastic pegs that hold the bottom of the netting don't have anything solid to hold onto, we're going to have to lower the netting and lay it out farther from the posts onto solid ground. I'm afraid that trench is also going to fill with water and become a breeding ground for mosquitos (maybe they won't like the bark mulch?). We'll see tomorrow - supposed to get 1" of rain tonight. But I think he's going to have to extend the trench to the lowest point and let it all drain into the (already swampy) low point in the back yard. But I can't say anything until after my fears are proven correct, b/c any time I question something he's done and suggest a modification, he "undoes" what he did (sometimes making the matter worse) and then ignores my requests for other projects. He built a 3ft high stone circle around our wellhead a few years ago for Mothers Day, it was lovely, but when I expressed concern that our (then) young child and cousins could get hurt climbing on it b/c it wasn't mortared, he tore it apart, never rebuilt it, and has ignored my requests to build a 1ft tall stone wall under our porch, while proceeding to build a 50-ft long retaining wall in the back yard to the south of the vegetable garden.