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Posted on: 5/17/07 2:30 PM ET
I cut out my swirl skirt yesterday. Lovely, I think it will be. Red and blue bandanna print cotton, and in a mid-calf length. When I started to pin it up, though, guess what I found?

I cut it out backwards!

So, now my skirt will be quite unique... The swirls will go in the opposite direction...

It's funny, but it feels as though I'm making a whole 'nother skirt now... It made me laugh, though, so I thought I'd share
  
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Posted on: 5/17/07 3:52 PM ET
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Just call it a 'design feature'
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Posted on: 5/17/07 5:02 PM ET
LOL, you'll have to wear it inside out if you want it to go the other way. It'll only be swirlling the wrong way if you tell someone about.
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Posted on: 5/17/07 6:20 PM ET
A bonus will be that when you look in the mirror the skirt will look exactly like the pattern envelope, no reverse image.
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Posted on: 5/17/07 8:50 PM ET
Much of my sewing gets done at a time of night when I really have no business operating machinery of any kind, so I tend to have a lot of "modifications" of that sort.
  
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Posted on: 5/17/07 9:23 PM ET
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No one will ever know the difference. I'm making a dress out of solid black rayon lycra jersey and have just finished the bodice and noticed that I'm using the "wrong" (purl) side of the jersey as the outside of the dress. Oh, well!
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Posted on: 5/18/07 7:19 AM ET
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LOL, mikkim - I just finished making a top and didn't realise I'd sewn the whole thing inside out until the last sleeve seam.
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Posted on: 5/18/07 3:05 PM ET
In reply to Phaedra28
sew it up right then turn it inside out for the latest exposed seam trend .


I recently made some overalls for my little man (18 mos) and sewed the front leg to the front leg and the back leg to the back leg. The pieces lined up so perfectly, you would think they had been cut at the same time!! I can't be the only one to have done this...please... That's what happens when you try to sew with TOO much little one help
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Posted on: 5/18/07 10:12 PM ET
Oh, my no! Let's see...

There was the time I had to run back to the fabric store to buy more fabric, so that I could make my husband a second pair of pajamas, since I'd cut out two right legs, instead of one right and one left...

Or the time I sewed a lovely flat felled seam -- best one I think I'd ever done at that time -- only to find, when I got to the other side, that I'd sewed the seam with wrong sides together! (And this was at the armscye, so it was too visible to go with._)

I'm sure if I tried, I could come up with other Sewing Duh Moments, but those are the only two funny ones that came straight to mind.
  
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