Dress patterns

[Lozzles]

Thanks I'll take a picture of the dress once it's finished...maybe

[Kaz]

[miasmum]

You're not wrong I did knit the dishclothes, it was the tea towels she cut up for dusters I had to hem, badly

[JoM]

Loz, that fabric is gorgeous!! I can't wait to see the finished dress!

We had to make a skirt in needlework. I remember my Mom buying me some dusky pink material (you'd swear we'd never met!!) and a pattern for a very full gathered skirt with three horizontal pleats just above the hem. It was a nightmare!! I remember sitting there with a half made skirt right at the end of the Summer term, and it never got finished even after I'd taken it home. Not that it would ever have been worn anyway. Me in dusky pink, I ask you

Mom used to make a lot of our clothes when we were children though, there's a photo of my sister and I in matching dresses and I can remember the material - it was green and brown flowery corduroy. All very nice having matching dresses but in the picture I was 2 and my sister was 13

[Lozzles]

I bet she was scarred for life.

[JoM]

I know I was! The material was horrible!!!

[miasmum]

That explains a lot Jo

[Gal]

I have been blessed with the creative gene thanks to my mam and big sister (mam and sis both knitted a lot, sis also sewed and made a lot of her own clothes).

In the late 70s and throughout the 80s I could be found in front of a sewing machine, or buying fabric, and although we didn't possess an ironing board, I used the dining room table with a thick wadded cloth under it to press as I went. I used an ancient sewing machine that I bought for £25 second hand from the free paper and made countless garments and was always buying paper patterns Saturday mornings would often find me in town, perusing the fabric, and 'seeing' the finished article

I think I was about 12 when I knit my first jumper - in cream wool with a cable design up the front.

I have lapsed a lot in the meantime - I did knit a chunky Aran style cardi last spring but I wasn't happy with the sleeve length (so long since I knit, I forgot how to adapt patterns) so it has stayed in my wardrobe largely unworn

Loving this new programme though - I would watch it on a loop if it was available!

[JoM]

That explains a lot Jo

It certainly does

[Kaz]