Re: [h-cost] Anyone know where to buy these retail?

2011-12-12 Thread Lavolta Press
I ended up buying some on Amazon (who owns Fabric.com). Thanks to everyone for their help. Fran Lavolta Press Books of historic clothing patterns www.lavoltapress.com On 12/10/2011 3:13 PM, penhal...@juno.com wrote: Fabric.com has most of them at a slight discount. Just search for 'steam punk

Re: [h-cost] doll costuming

2011-12-12 Thread Maggie Halberg
If you want to do adult female proportions doing things for half scale dress forms is a lot of fun. They don't have arms, heads or legs but they are a lot of fun to play with and have the added bonus of being able to use scaled down versions of patterns you already have and use (and those you'v

Re: [h-cost] doll costuming

2011-12-12 Thread Katy Bishop
This website sells their patterns for doll's costumes: www.agesdesigns.com/ I've seen her display room (she is making up all the patterns for a display) and it is spectacular. Katy On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com < cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Emily, > > W

Re: [h-cost] doll costuming

2011-12-12 Thread cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com
Hi Emily, When I sewed doll clothes (which I don't so much anymore), I did all the patterning from scratch (because I wanted to). I've run across various doll clothing-related things, though, I two come to mind. First, if you intend to sew for the Barbie-size/style figure, then there are actua