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Posted on: 6/26/15 1:30 PM ET
So I made some wadders and blamed it on the pattern. So I threw the patterns out. Now I wish I hadn't.

I have a gazillion patterns. I am trying to decide to if I want to replace the one I threw out or just use what I have. I don't even know if I will make them again . . . I just miss them.
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Posted on: 6/26/15 1:42 PM ET
LOL I had a similar issue with a pair of RTW pants.

I had lost a little weight, and they were an unusual color (sort of wedgewood/colonial blue), and just read or seen something about cleaning out your closet.

So I pulled several pairs of pants and some tops that I hadn't worn in a while since they were getting baggy. Well, w/in 6 months I gained the weight back, and suddenly kept finding really cute RTW tops that would have looked amazing with those pants, lol.

This happened back in the 90s and I still regret getting rid of those pants! So I feel your pain.

If I was in your shoes, I'd probably just use what I have - but that's mostly because I'm soo cheap!
  
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Posted on: 6/26/15 2:56 PM ET
I did the same with a Vogue dress pattern. I finished the dress and wore it a few times, but was never happy with it and eventually donated it to charity and gave the pattern to my sewing teacher. I recently took advantage of the pattern sales and bought it again. It will need some design adjustments to the bodice, so this is a back burner project.
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Posted on: 6/27/15 1:04 PM ET
I've done this too. Some were tossed before I knew much about adjustments. Now I wish I had them back to work the adjustment magic.
  
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Posted on: 6/27/15 1:13 PM ET
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May I borrow your temper please? My pattern stash could use a dose of it. We must be opposites. I always assume mess ups are me, the brains behind the operation, or the other suspect in crime- my body. I love my patterns. Every last one of them. I forgive them their transgressions over and over. Wish I were more like you!
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Posted on: 6/27/15 3:15 PM ET
I never throw patterns away.

However, several dozen patterns recently left my sewing closet for a sojourn in the St. Vincent de Paul store. Therein I hope they will find new and happy homes where they can fulfill their purpose in life.


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Posted on: 6/27/15 3:47 PM ET
I gave away patterns that would never fit me or just aren't my style. The only one I ever threw away was an American Girl Tinker Bell dress pattern that I made for my niece a few years ago. I made Tink and Cinderella. I swore I would never make it again and promptly threw it away! I should have given it to my mom to make for my other niece, but was so frustrated that it went in the trash.
  
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Posted on: 6/27/15 11:55 PM ET
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I always assume mess ups are me, the brains behind the operation, or the other suspect in crime- my body.

I am pretty sure that the mess ups were mine. I just was so mad and so tired of blaming myself, I decided I had to blame someone else . . . my patterns. They seem to have a personality of their own. And they just didn't agree with me. Otherwise, why did they create wadders??? Surely I had nothing to do with it!
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Posted on: 6/28/15 12:38 PM ET
Yikes! I've never thrown any away, but I have given some away, and that felt freeing! I have also tried to sell some, but even that doesn't always work, so now I think I will just give them away to a local place called Ragfinery. Lots of stuff for sewers and reuse of all things crafty, and used by people who are way beyond me in their vision of repurposing. It's a great place.
But it is hard to part with some of those patterns, which I had big hopes for!
  
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