treesprite
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The last time I had a need for skating dresses and skirts, I was still a teenager but made them myself, and actually sold some to help me pay for lessons. I am currently not at a point of feeling a need to wear a skating dress, but I look at the ones for sale to see what would be available in the future, and have discovered that nothing suits me. The problem is that sewing over time has gone from being an inexpensive necessity to being a very expensive hobby. I don't know what would be worse: wearing something I'm not really happy with, or spending a small fortune on materials. This is especially an issue since there are no good skating dress patterns, meaning I would be actually designing from scratch and would need extra fabric to experiment.
Are there any folks here who make their own things, who might have some ideas on less expensive aquisition of fabrics besides the popular fabric stores? Or could save me the expense of experimentation by telling me about skating attire pattern makers besides Jalle (I definitely do not like their selection of patterns)? I prefer a fully covered bottom, and a seam line that doesn't accentuate the biggest part of my abdomen.
Are there any folks here who make their own things, who might have some ideas on less expensive aquisition of fabrics besides the popular fabric stores? Or could save me the expense of experimentation by telling me about skating attire pattern makers besides Jalle (I definitely do not like their selection of patterns)? I prefer a fully covered bottom, and a seam line that doesn't accentuate the biggest part of my abdomen.
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