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I’m halfway through a dress using the top pattern at the moment, with the silver paisley material.

I must thank the lovely Melissa at Thread Den who showed me to get more out my fabric and pattern cutting. I couldn’t really get my head around it, but she showed me how if, you’re a bit short on material, if you cut pattern pieces individually rather than just fold and cut, you can maneouvre things to make them fit. I really thought I was going to be short with the amount of material I had but I actually have a fair amount left over. Hopefully should be finished the dress by the weekend so I can show you all.

And fingers crossed I might have time to make a top or to to bring to Europe with me. I want LONG FLOATY tops so those were the types of patterns I was looking for. There was another cute Simplicity Project Runway pattern I was after but they didn’t seem to have it at the store.

If you’re in Melbourne, keep your eyes peeled for the Saturday Age – A2 section. It will probably run while I am away but they are going to run a feature piece on Thread Den! They did interviews and took photos on Monday night at the store, and I was lucky enough to be invited along. I hid out in the cutting room though and managed to skip the photo shoot but still got cornered for a quick interview, wonder if anything I said will get used. I’m so used to setting up the interviews, it was odd to be doing one for a change. Nat said I should have plugged my blog but I didn’t MOO!

Less than a fortnight til we jetset! Woohoo!