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[Mrs C.]

I just tried this with my daughter at my side - without knowing what it was all about. She said the dancer didn`t change direction at all, yet at the same time she changed several times for me! Weird or what??!!

[jhopgood]

Clockwise if looked at straight on but anti clockwise if I look just outside the bottom left hand corner.
Means I'm slightly unbalanced, which doesn't surprise either me nor my wife.

[John Knight]

She has a lovely figure... Hmm.

[englishangel]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7186989.stm

amazing

[midget]

Loved it!

[Angela Woodford]

I wish I could have prints of a couple of these for my kitchen! If ever I see...

Munch

[sejintenej]

I wish I could have prints of a couple of these for my kitchen! If ever I see...

Munch

This should do with basic Windows programmes; proper graphics packages will make a better job

Go to the picture you want
Right click and click Copy Image. (IE might have slightly different text)

Go to Start (bottom left) and click
Mouse over "all programs" until a menu appears
mouse on first item called Accessories to get new menu
Click Paint

This gives you a graphics package with a light coloured square top left of main screen. This is the currnt size of result but you probably want bigger so: put mouse on bottom right corner of light screen so that you get a diagonal double arrow (ie not up-down). Pull this to bottom right of screen. Release button on mouse

Go to menu across top and "Edit" and "paste"

Now you are on your own - you can expand, contract, skew, cut out bits copy bits .......... but the grain will not be very good.

HTH

[englishangel]

and one for the Hertford folk, this'll take you back

http://momspatterns.com/home

[Katharine]

and one for the Hertford folk, this'll take you back

http://momspatterns.com/home

Thanks, Mary. I have just been through the 60s, I don't think I had any of those particular patterns but so so similar! In fact there may well be some upstairs in the box room now!

[Angela Woodford]

David - the food pictures -

Thank you for the advice! I will have a try - as usual, your methods work - did you see my excited reporting of Carnation producing your recipe for evaporated milk?

Angela

[sejintenej]

David - the food pictures -

Thank you for the advice! I will have a try - as usual, your methods work - did you see my excited reporting of Carnation producing your recipe for evaporated milk?

Angela

I just hope it works on your PC - I did it here and then wrote down the steps.

Suco da leite? that was the cheat's way of making it but glad you enjoyed it. It is a bit like the Norwegian Gjetost cheese to which I saw a reference very recently - slightly rubbery and very very sweet.
I didn't see anything about Carnation muscling in though; those big companies see an idea and start barging in - like coffee bars and hamburger joints

[kerrensimmonds]

Oh goodness (Mary) - Butterick patterns. How I remember them. Alas my wardrobe now (40 years later) no longer contains any products from them, but I do remember buying these patterns en masse all those years ago, and making all sorts of outfits. Including one (a long jacket trouser suit in lilac linen plus fancy pretty wispy cotton blouse, with a rolled up strip of the blouse material festooning the rim of a floppy hat, along with a number of bought decorative 'flowers' of the same colours). It was for the wedding of my closest childhood (non CH) friend and must have been about 1969. Would you believe it that the back trouser seam split as I got into the car taking me to the wedding. What would Miss Richards have said? AArrgghh! (A salutory lesson for another thread on this Forum....). Fortunately the jacket was long enough to cover my embarrassment, but it was Very Draughty - and the BF of the time was mortified......
Happy Days!

Kerren

[englishangel]

As a hoarder I am proud (ashamed?) to say that I still have some of those patterns, we had a very quiet day at work yesterday and I mentioned to my colleague about dressmaking and she put me onto the site, I was actually looking for a bias cut nightgown pattern for Munch, sorry I couldn't find one but I didn't go through ALL the vintage pattern sites.

[Angela Woodford]

Thank you for looking Mary! Co-incidence! I found Momspatterns all on my own from googling "vintage Vogue patterns". Goodness, some of them brought back memories... but no slinky nightgown!

Am I still affected by last night's bottle of wine, or is the sizing different? Size 14 is for a 36" bust for example. No wonder at the time getting to size 12 seemed an impossible dream for me. I have a very vague memory of us being summoned to School Hall by SWSNBN to be told that some pattern manufacturers were altering their sizing??

Munch

[englishangel]

size 14 was indeed a 36 inch bust