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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
Sweet 16. Many of my friends were still playing with Barbies. I asked for a sewing machine for my birthday and started to make my own skirts and dresses from discarded McCall paper patterns and getting free end of roll material from the local fabric shop.
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I remember those patterns, the straight pins and that crayon kind of thing to mark where to cut. My great grandmother was a seamstress. She made all our communion dresses. No pattern required.