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The blog I have read most of has to be MPB. 'Male Pattern Boldness' claims to be the most popular men's sewing blog, and I can see why. Peter Lappin, a New Yorker living in Manhattan has roots in the Mood Sewing Network and I know that personally I joined Pattern Review just because he recommended it in a post. </div>
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As if I need to tell you TSC has been a little neglected. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Last week I was in the middle of a field in Wiltshire getting soaked whilst listening to some of the best music I've heard in a while. I have to say (apart from the rain) WOMAD outdid itself this year.</span></div>
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In this post I was intending to show you how to do the 'slash and spread' technique often used when adding fullness to a garment, but I got a little carried away and I ended up drafting a pattern. The resulting skirt was pretty simple so I thought I'd share my maths with you!</div>
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So last week I started a new <a href="http://tonisewsclothes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/bralette-ideas.html" target="_blank">bralette making project</a>, from an old bra with a broken underwire. If you read the last post I had just got to the point of cutting my first toile. I made this one primarily to get the fitting of the cup right, but ended up making a couple of other changes too.</div>
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This week I've been drafting myself a pattern for a bralette top, using an old bra as a starting point. It's a bit of a brief post today as I've spent so much time doing it, but I plan to have it all figured out next week, perhaps with a tutorial for you to try at home! </div>
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So if you follow me on Twitter you know that the other week I found a gorgeous doggy fabric on eBay. The link is <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clarke-and-Clarke-Labrador-Rover-Linen-100-Cotton-Fabric-by-the-Metre-/171290787880?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item27e1ba0028" target="_blank">here</a>, if you want some! I'm a huge dog lover and I've been looking for a pretty fabric that doesn't look like a dog's photo has been printed on it, as who wants someone else's dog on their pillows? Not to mention I don't think my Labs would take to them, either!</div>
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I've been left with that wierd feeling when a project finishes and you suddenly have more time on your hands and nothing to fill it. A kind of disorientation that you only get when you've walked away from a completed exhibiton or out of the stage door for the final time on the last night of the show. </div>
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So today I'm back on track sewing. I've been taking apart a skirt that fits me well to get the pattern - I know this is detrimental to my current lack of clothing, but I'm going to use it, I promise!</div>
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A friend gave me this skirt when it was too big for her, and it fit me wonderfully, exept the fact that it was a little tight for me on the waist. To combat this, I decided to trace the skirt onto paper first, make my initial changes, then make a mock up or toile before making the final skirt - this seems a lot of effort for one skirt, but after all this I will have a pattern that will fit me!</div>
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My Janome bobbins have arrived from China and work wonderfully, look at the tiny little stitches I did here on a scrap. Look how beautiful they are! It's so great to have my machine up and running again. But what to sew with it?</div>
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So we start off with the one of the oldest pieces of women's fashion - the corset. Considered to have been invented somewhere in the 16th century to sculpt the body into the desirable shape of the period the corset was made originally with whale bone, which is why we call 'boning' boning. I could do a whole timeline on the corset and how it changed from era to era, but I've decided to leave that out as it'd be a very long list. I'd like to think this is a brief-ish timeline of women's underwear.</div>
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So today I inherited a bag of old clothes from my lovely friend Jenny! (Thank you!) it was a lovely afternoon and it was nice to spend it with the girls for once.</div>
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It fits in nicely with my grey skirt, which at the moment I still haven't found the right fabric for, but the idea is there of recycling and editing existing clothing to make your own, which is what Toni Sews is all about. </div>
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Any ideas would be much appreciated...I bought a skirt and have no idea what to do with it!</div>
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So last week I managed to rip my only bodycon jersey skirt - you know the ones, they're sold by many of the high street giants, cost you under a tenner and are great to wear if you want your legs out* but still want to be comfy. Now this is where I have a little problem. Well, in the case of last week, then I had two.<br>
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So I bought this one from a vintage shop in Sheffield last week - but I knew I could do something with the straps in a matter of minutes as I looked inside the top - some are easier than others. This one was pretty simple as the straps on this one were hand stitched to the inside of the lining. If you have to undo some seams to get to where the straps are attached, consider how much you dislike the original straps and how long a time you can spend on the project. </div>
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