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Location: Royse City,Texas (35 miles East of Dallas in the country)
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Whats your best way to trace and store your
Ottebre patterns???? I will be running out to get stuff to trace ..but what do you recommend?? I want something sturdy,so it will last. And how are you storing them???
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I LOVE Pattern ease! I had been using tissue paper but splurged and bought some pattern ease when it was half price and now I will never go back!
Right now I store them in my issues of Ottobre but I plan on poutting them in manila envelopes with the pattern number and what it is when we move.
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I use pattern ease and manilla envelopes, one day they will be filed even! LOL I write on the envelope the pattern number / issue number, size and if it's morphed or tweeked in anyway. Like I usually have to add length for dd but if I made the same size for a friend I wouldn't want the length kwim...
I just discovered Patternease as well. Before I was using freezer paper or cheap JA's interfacing. My method makes sense to no one but me and I don't recommend it LOL. I have manila envelopes by size so one has size 80, size 98 size 116. I fold all pieces of a traced pattern together and put them in the envelope. When I pull out a pice everything for that pattern is folded inside of it. Told you it made absolutely no sense LOL.
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I haven't done a lot of Ottobre but I always use Patternease for all my pattern tracing (aka Kwiksew ect). Right now I label my Ottobre pattern pieces well (mag date, design/pattern piece numbers) and keep one mag and all tracings for that mag per gallon ziploc (with mag date written on outside of baggie).
Sarah
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Yep, add me to the ziploc baggy way. I also too have not done that many yet.....
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I buy the cheap interfacing at JA when it's on sale. I buy a bolt at a time. Then, I store them in manilla envelopes - one envelope per issue and size. I store the envelopes in a file basket in my sewing room. It's worked well so far, as long as I keep on top of the filing!
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I use interfacing to trace on.
to store them I take a copy of the center of the Ottobre issue and glue it to the front and back of a manilla envie. Then, each view/size I trace from that issue gets put in a zip lock and put in the envie. This way I can see all the views for the issue and have the tracings there in the envie without having to match up pattern pieces and sizes.
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Lisa, wife to Simon and mom to 6 wonderful kids! McKrae 11, Westley 9, Grant 7, Leah 5, Elise 3, & Ella 1!
I use Doctors examing table paper, it's super thin which makes it easy to trace and super cheapo. You can get it at Medical supply stores. If it's a pattern I know I'll use over and over again I use then use Pattern ease which is more expensive but much sturdier. I store my patterns in these plastic sleeves that Nancy's Notions sells they are the same size as the big 3 patterns and so I fill them in a file cabinet or pattern storage bins from Joanns. I usually write on the outside which issue and number/size the traced patterns came from. When I feel unually organized which is not too often I photo copy the picture from the magazine and put it on the outside of the plastic sleeve.
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