It has been an agonizing few weeks anxiously awaiting for the group #28 pattern for the VPLL 1912 project. My time has been spent perusing the various posts on the participants who have received their group patterns and have begun their sewing. There are some really wonderful projects out there and I hope you take the time to view them all through this website as well as each participants personal blogs. I have enjoyed reading and viewing the pictures of everyone’s progress and now can finally count myself among those that are actively sewing for the project.
This past Friday I finally received my first pattern via snail mail, the Princess Slip, and am looking forward to getting under way. I really wish my printer was functioning properly for I would have liked to have started this along with everyone else but…better late than never! I am going to check locally for a print shop that has the capability to print future patterns out in the large format. I live in a rural community so my access is limited and will have to travel further out for this type of service. In the mean time I am hoping to remedy my printer issues and then I could receive the .pdf files and construct the patterns at home.
I have written a post on my personal blog, Mimi O, that also includes the other goodies that I received last week. Please check out “Mail Call: Up Next the VPPL 1912 Project” for the additional items that I have purchased to assist in sewing the fashions for this project. They are truly wonderful!!!
Wishing everyone great success in their sewing endeavors.
Mimi,
I had problems with printing out the slip pattern initially but then discovered that if I selected the no borders option in my printer setup this sorted out the problem trying to get the pattern to print onto 25 sheets of A4 sized typing paper. This mean that I only had about a 1/4inch gap to bridge between where the outlines lined up from one sheet to the other.
I lined up the pattern print-out pages in numerical order in five rows of 5 A4 sheets – stuck them together with invisible tape and then taped the 5 rows together in place lining up the pattern segments in correct sequence. Next step is to trace all the pattern pieces off onto tracing paper to use for the actual paper pattern.
This way you have your master pattern sheet on hand to refer to when constructing the garment.
If you get stuck – email me at woodart@woodart.com.au and I’ll send you my printer settings which might help overcome any print out problems.
I hope this helps?
Cheers
Ainslie.
Thank you for your information and kind offer to help. My issue isn’t in how to print the patterns, no problems there, it is with my printer itself…it is out of commission at the present time so I can’t print anything. :-\
Perhaps send the email with the attached pattern off to a friend who lives nearby and ask if they would kindly print out the pattern for you. (maybe give him/her a pack of A4 paper in return for the favour)
At least that way you would be able to make a start on the slip while waiting for the printer repairs to be done.
Cheers
Ainslie.
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