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puffy pockets?
BrightFeather Intermediate GA USA Member since 3/7/08 Posts: 204	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/6/12 11:37 PM Okay, I'm doing a vintage pattern-- Simplicity 1151 for my nieces, and the dress has puffy pockets. The instructions are brief... too brief really for something I haven't done a thousand times before, and I've yet to find a pattern that explains how to do this satisfactorily. Does anyone know how to do this?
Courtney Ostaff   Intermediate WV USA Member since 11/23/10 Posts: 624	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/6/12 11:50 PM http://www.danamadeit.com/2008/07/tutorial-the-gathered-pocket-two-versions.html http://wipster.blogspot.com/2009/11/vintage-skirt-refashion-and-gathered.html http://www.ikatbag.com/2010/11/pockets-vi-gathered-patch-pockets.html
gramma b Advanced USA Member since 7/25/08 Posts: 2264	Login to reply to this post In reply to BrightFeather << 1 member likes this. Date: 6/7/12 0:02 AM Is the pattern piece wider on the top like a half circle? You can make these as deep as you want. Simplest way is to run 1/4" elastic thru a tunnel on top to gather, then turn under the rest and stitch around. Some pockets gather to a top band instead, which make it a little dressier. I like the vintage pocket sometimes seen on aprons, shaped like a crescent moon or 3/4 of a circle. You just sew these doubled, turn RSO. gather around the outside edge.

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