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- From: wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu (Rick Russell)
- Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles,rec.crafts.misc,alt.sewing
- Subject: Re: Mail-Order Source For Unique Stuffed Animals?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:43:07 -0600
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- In article <1993Jan25.145721.11016@ncar.ucar.edu> rehak@rap.ucar.edu (Nancy Rehak) writes:
- >You might want to check out the pattern books at your local sewing stores.
- >One of the big names (Simplicity, Butterick or McCall's) has a chicken pattern
- >(I don't see a chicken listed below) that a friend of mine made. Of course, if
- >you are after very realistic patterns, these may not be what you want. I also
- >have seen some pretty nice and more unusual and realistic stuffed animal
- >patterns in the Vogue books.
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- If I were to make my own attempt at a stuffed animal, I'd want a
- pattern that is a good tradeoff between realism and sewing difficulty.
- Of course, I guess the level of tradeoff would be entirely up to me
- :-) !
-
- Anyway, keep the replies coming folks, I'm getting some good ones.
- I'll post a summary shortly. And by the way, I will read alt.sewing &
- rec.crafts.textiles at least for a while, so I don't miss any news
- posted replies.
-
- Thanks!
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