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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Today's pattern experience

Today, I got four patterns. The two I won in the contest over at Adventures in Baby Sewing (Simplicity 4777 and Simplicity 3085) and two I got at a local antique store warehouse. The ones I won are complete (except for one back facing - but that's okay).


[They look great and I'm excited to make them. I really like the button/seam detail on Simplicity 3085.]

The other two... that's where the adventure comes in.

I meant to buy McCall's 5045 and Advance 9575.

What I got was almost all of McCall's 5045 (all of the dress and jumper but just bits and pieces of the blouse - like, not the front or back of it...), none of Advance 9575, the envelope for McCall's 8153, about half of the pieces for Mail Order 9361 (all of views A and B, I think), the mitt facing for McCall's 2133, parts of McCall's 7970 (it's got a front, back, jacket, and skirt from what I can tell, I don't know what this one looks like), the pocket for McCall's 2248, the front of Simplicity 8506, the blouse front and back and armhole facing for Simplicity 5140, and the stockings for McCall's 7945 (my personal favorite random piece).

I'm not quite sure what to do with all of this, except throw it together in a bag and call it miscellaneous. I think I've learned my lesson about not checking pieces, but I am having a moral quandary about going back and sorting through all the patterns they have because I think they're probably all this bad.