Birthday Party - The Second Coming

[wiseheart]

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Clever plan! :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Since the choice seems to be between sewing things accurately or working out how to make a nice-looking bag otherwise it was always going to be doing something clever for me. I am not bad at sewing, but even small differences in how wide you make the seam allowance add up to quite a difference when you have six or seven patches sewn together in each direction. I am never going to be that accurate!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods*
It is just all the patterns I've come across say cut everything out first...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I fear that is because the people writing patterns are evil and want you to feel stupid and like a failure for not managing to keep to the exact seem allowance specified. It does help to have most of the pieces cut out at the beginning though, since that way you can just stitch them together and not worry about having to cut more out. If you are making your own design it also allows you to see how the materials look together before staring on sewing, in case you want to change how you arrange the pieces.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods* Or the people making the patterns are more accurate.

It is like cross stitch patterns always say to start in the middle - but I hate doing that because I usually end up running out of space in one direction or another...

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have never actually given much thought to why cross stitch patterns say to start in the middle, I have just done it. Now that I do think about it am not sure what the reason is.

Since most of my cross stitching is done on packs where I get the pattern, the cotton and the aida, I haven't had a problem with running out of space. I think it was my Mother who taught me the trick of folding the aida double and then running my nail along the crease (and then repeating in the other direction) to find the middle of the material.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I try folding it to find the middle, but don't seem to do it very well...

[sammydragoncat]

I agree, patern makers must be evil.