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I’m in the process of updating the Flats section of my portfolio with 80-90 new flats!

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Contract or Custom Sewing

Tamarack Tales is now Totally open now for new contracts and custom sewing. Tamarack Tales has been innovative and viable since 1974 with a propensity toward the personality of the client. No project too small and all interested parties with Ideas, Dreams, and Hopes are listened to with Respect, Integrity and Good Will.Located in East Portland, actually Oak Grove area of Oregon... you may be surprised that there is someone here with skills, equipment and willingness to forward your project(s) wi
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Her experience working for others as well as starting her own line makes Lara Bly a great resource for beginning designers. Beginning to work on her own line, she remembers, called on skills she hadn’t used in a while. “It was a big change after having patternmakers and machinists working for me at Sacrosanct. It took a while to remember what I knew about sewing. I was rusty, but it came back quickly. It took me a while to transition away from Sacrosanct’s way of doing things,” she remembers. “I
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A Basic Sewing Studio for Knits

I am indebted to the Leabu Sewing Center for not only repairing and maintaining my machines, but advising me on how to provide myself with the essential machines for my work, without breaking the bank.

Many designers do great work without sewing, but I design mainly by sewing. Since I began working mainly with knit fabrics, in developing the Pixyworld line, I realized that my sweet little Huskystar 219 (Husqvarna) wasn't going to be adequate for sewing my samples.

I first acquired a serger, used,
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Maxi Dress

Remake of Bebe's Maxi Dress

Here is a dress that one of my coworkers bought and loved it so much that she wanted another on in another fabric.

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I started out by borrowing the dress she bought. I traced it onto dotted pattern paper meaning I trace around the actual dress and where the seams met. I took down key measurements for example, how long each section was like the bust line and waistline and seams, stretched and relaxed. I recorded all the design lines, trims and notions used and where they
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For many moms and fathers, having a baby is a very joyful thing. They start to buy things for the baby during pregnancy. Among them, clothes are indispensable, but how to choose wholesale clothes for the newborn? There are a few points that must be paid attention to, otherwise, it is a safety hazard.

kiskissing wholesale 2 Pieces Infant I Love Mama Papa Camouflage Colorblock Jumpsuit And Accessory

  1. Choose Pure Cotton Blend Clothing

    kiskissing wholesale Simple Baby Girl Plain Top

    Babies have strong sweat secretion and need good sweat absorption, good breathability, soft and lose clothing, so be sure to choose pure cotton clothing.
  2. Choose a Card

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3 Hobbies to Start This Holiday Season

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What is the importance of hobbies? You can start it as a fun pastime or could it be used as a means to develop your personality, improve your mind and body, and bring you closer to your friends or family. And it’s perfect for the holiday season, so you can make thoughtful gifts for those you love.

Here are a few fun hobbies you can try today:

Crochet

Learning how to crochet can take you from beginner crocheting to intermediate crochet and beyond. There is a lot of information available online, incl

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8844038652?profile=originalStyle is a word we hear often. The simplest way to describe style is “self-expression,” a way to reflect what is on the inside of each person. In a world of mass-produced clothing and accessories, sewing enables you to express your own style. Here are four ways to add style to your creations.

Appliques

An applique is a piece of fabric with ornamental needlework that is attached to a larger piece of fabric to create a picture or pattern. The ornamental piece could be in a contrasting color to stand

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Our present stitching, embrоidery, and Brother CS6000i sewing machine prоducts sew at quite high rates putting a huge pressure оn strings. New strings are always being created and it seems that embrоidery custоm, every device manufacturer, and digitizer has her оr his оwn make оf line. Mоst оf these threads wоrk well оn the majоrity оf оur machines, but as mоre оf оur machines becоme digital and the things that wоrk them are increasingly hidden, it cоuld be frustrating and cоnfusing tо trоublesh

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Very Nice Embroidered Net Lace Allover Fabric

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More New Lace Pattern Show On

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For 

All Kind Textile and Clothing Industry

Factory, Wholesale and Supplier

Hong Kong Li Seng Co Ltd

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A few late-coming snaps to share highlighting the theme of craftsmanship of tailoring and sewing captured just in time before the closing to mark my seasonal visit to Hong Kong Fashion Week@Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
(Fall/Winter 2015 concurrently held with World Boutique, Hong Kong from January 19-22)

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Allover Lace Fabric For All Fashion Design

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Net Lace Fabric for all Kinds Apparel

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More Lace Fabric Pattern ( Dye to Match Color ) Shown On 

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Hong Kong Li Seng Co Ltd

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New Lace Fabric Pattern Catalog for All

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New Lace Fabric Pattern Catalog for Designer and Merchandinser

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Chinese Lunar Mid-Autumn Festival

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Garment Accessories Supplier

Hong Kong Li Seng Co Ltd

Lace Trims Manufacturer Wholesaler and Supplier.

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Quality, Reliability, Consultation

Located in the heart of fashionable East London London (five minutes from Old Street), The Sampling Studio is a boutique sampling unit managed by experienced fashion designers, dedicated to providing a caring, comprehensive and uncompromising quality of service.  

We believe that the sampling unit service we offer is unique as we offer pattern checking as standard, and unlike many other sampling units, we put the quality of your garments first.  

Working with on

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Apparel Industry -Top 5 Tips to Avoid Mistakes

Follow these 5 tips to reduce mistakes, increase profit & decrease development time.

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  1. When you order raw goods or finished goods– schedule in a follow up.  Do not assume if you place an order that it is being processed. Many times we have ordered raw goods and find out that it is not being processed.
  2. Sending a good sample or picture is not enough for a manufacturer to produce the same product. If you have been in the business longer than 1 year you have already learned this
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