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Came here: http://www.seamlyne.com/design/costume/bodice/bodice_index.html following a link from a corset-making site and found instructions for making a sloper that I can actually understand. I have Don McCunn's book, but haven't got very far into it, ( Read more... )

Instructions found here http://members.aol.com/lclacemker/frameset3.html?f=fs under "gored skirt".

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We're both getting to the age where our cousins are starting to die off, and he still has aunts and uncles left. Mom will be 90 this year. I figured I'd better make a dress that's suitable for funerals and such. I'm not much of a seamstress, so it has to be a simple pattern ( Read more... )

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From the Craftster pattern.


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Beautiful out there ( Read more... )