I bought five lengths of cotton recently for summer dresses, really lovely lightweight cotton, Rose and Hubble prints. I found it on my local market for £5 a yard and only need two yards for a dress.
Or so I thought, I think in yards but obviously buy in metres. The man asked me if I wanted to buy in yards or metres, 'yards' said I.
Well, I kid you not, those few inches makes a lot of difference to a dress pattern that is already scraping by on 2 metres (I know its exact requirements because I have made a few of them over the years).
My on the knee length dress is now above the knee (which is not a good thing.
I will have to find something else to make with the other lengths.
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CatherineDeB · 21/06/2016 09:37
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