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Hip Kanji shirring success story and S&S ~ Pics are back!!! ~
I DID IT!! I finally cleaned my machine this morning, and then rethreaded it, and tried the tention as high as I could go and then machine threaded the elastic bobbin... but it still didn't work. After removing 3 rows of shirring I decided to try to hand wind it. and it worked!!! Check out what I got done today:
And one more becuase she thinks she is SO funny and it is so cute!
I wish I could give you a close up of this cool fabric... it has a bunch of caligeraphy kanji on it up and down, and then some japanese flowers and a few symbols too. It is so neat! I had to make the black capris to go with it... I just love this outfit... and she doesn't hate it! SCORE!
Love Val
Haha! She was sitting still enough for me to take a picture while she was sitting on my lap. lol...
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Val; Living the dream we have been working towards for over 5 years.
Mama to Alex, Cyan, and Logan. Wife to my very best friend.
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Location: When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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I love you guys! Thanks so much for the quick responces... I posted that earlier on another sewing site I am on and I have gotten nothing... it makes you feel kinda weird to put your stuff out there and then get nothing... you know? I really appriciate you guys!
Great outfit, I love that dress with the black capris! Your daughter is very cute, and quite a riot with the face in the second picture! Mine love doing that, too.
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Full time mom to Laura (9/1998) and Elena (6/2001)
Val, I'm so glad you got your machine to do shirring for you! I was bummed, I remembered how exciting for you to get your new machine, then to have it act up so fast . . . but the outfit looks wonderful, guess it's a matter of learning your own machine's quirks
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Originally Posted by Mamaheart7
guess it's a matter of learning your own machine's quirks
Yep... I am very excited... all of this sewing has been a real learning story for me. I think it will be worth it though. I am able to do some really great stuff now that my old machine really couldn't do. So it is really starting to feel worth it.
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I wonder whats going on with the pictures. I can see them... they are on Village Photos hosting... is there any reason you couldn't see them that would be linked to that?
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Originally Posted by Sacha
I LOVE that fabric.. > Where did you get it? LOL
JoAnn's. It was from this last fall... I found in when I was looking at quilting stuff. And just knew that it would be perfect for an outfit like this.
I get little red 'x's for the photos... I right clicked on one, selected properties, copied the Address [url] to my browser's address field and tried to look at it that way. Got a screen from Village Photos that says
"Access Denied (Usage Limit)"
"The owner of this file has exceeded their daily usage limit."
HTH
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mom to Jenna (16), Andy (14), and Clara (8)
Try this one... perhaps you can see the whole file. I know I haven't gone over my limit becuase it says right on it 18 out of 25 photos saved
The first 4 pictures on "sewing pictures" are the outfit here. My pictures are all in the wrong files because I didn't really know what I was doing, and I loaded them up anyway.
Love Val
ETA: Ahhh... now I see it... I no longer can see them either. THAT IS SO WEIRD! Well I will just have to bump it tomorrow when my "daily useage" isn't so much. What a werid thing. Sorry guys.
Last edited by BlueRoseMama : 06-02-2005 at 12:51 AM.
Your dd is so cute. 
They turned out great! WTG 
I am very excited... all of this sewing has been a real learning story for me. 
Soooo glad you got your machine working. I bet the shirring looks great! 
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