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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Enter To Win The Magic Bias Dress Pattern

It's a cloudy, rainy Thursday here in Chicago, but I can hear the cardinals singing outside my window, so all is well :) 
Last week, I announced the give away of the brand new April/May issue of Sew News. If you have not thrown your name in for a chance to win 1 of the 3 magazines that I have to give away, be sure to go HERE and get your name in before midnight tonight.

The announcement of a new sew along wouldn't be complete without a chance to win a pattern, so here's your chance!


I always prefer to see a line drawing as it tells me so much more. The dress looks to be quite complicated... 
 but this is it! Just 3 pieces, and as I told you last week, what makes it magical is that the pattern pieces are all cut on the straight of grain. That's MAGIC!!! in my book. No trying to make sure that your pattern pieces are really on the bias grain.
Again, the dress I made for the magazine. Funny little note, my husband rarely visits his Facebook page. So I was rather shocked when he said that he saw the dress that I had posted, and then said, "I really like that dress." Believe me, that's quite a compliment coming from him :) 
So here's the drill;
If you would like a chance to win The Magic Bias Dress pattern,
1. You must be a follower of this blog
2. Leave a message on this post and let me know how you follow the blog.
3. Leave a message by midnight Wednesday, March 31, 2016

I will announce the winner next Thursday, March 31, 2016.
Next Thursday I will also have a wonderful guest post from the designer of Fashion In Harmony Patterns, Julianne Bramson. I think you will really enjoy having the opportunity to get inside her mind and see how she thinks.
Until then...
Good Luck!



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127 comments:

  1. Beautiful dress! I follow via Feedly!

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  2. Beautiful -- and definitely an intriguing dress pattern. I follow you on Bloglovin' Lyn

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  3. I am very intriqued by the dress, and I follow you through Bloglovin' - and will definitely be following the sew-along!

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  4. I have followed your blog for a long time and have learned so much. Thank you for taking the time to share your gifts with the world.

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  5. Love the bias dress -- so flattering. I follow on Bloglovin'. Enjoy your very active sewing and cooking life. Thanks!

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  6. I am following via email newsletter ( based on my yahoo account) and I also follow by visiting your blog every few weeks.

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  7. Rainy, cloudy, and just plain yucky here in Texas too! What a nice way to brighten the day to read about your give-a-way! You are the greatest!

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  8. What a fun pattern to get my sewing mojo back from it's vacation.

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  9. Thanks for the opportunity, looks like a fun project. I follow on Bloglovin.
    Blessings!

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  10. I follow via Feedly. I'm a sucker for bias anything and especially love fabric efficient bias garments so this one is right up my alley!

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  11. The dress looks amazing. I follow you via email every day, and then go over to your blog. You add a lot of great information to my day, Rhonda! I really appreciate it!

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  12. What a beauty of a pattern with so many possibilities!

    I follow you on Bloglovin'

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  13. Love this dress! I follow your blog via email. :) I always enjoy what you're sewing and/or blogging about.

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  14. Oh, yes, please throw my name in the hat. If I don't win, I'll have to buy it!! ;) I follow on Bloglovin.

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  15. Really interesting dress. I follow your blog via email.

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  16. Hi Rhonda, I follow by bloglovin and would really like the free pattern. Your blog is so interesting and inspirational. Thank you for continuing to share.

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  17. I am excited about sewing up this dress. Love the pattern. I get so much from your blog. Thank you for sharing. I follow via email.

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  18. I follow you! And I'd love to make this dress. Thanks!

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  19. Rhonda's Creative Life comes to me via email. Love it! Thanks

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  20. I follow you through email from Rhonda's Creative Life. I have taken classes from Juliane Bramson, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I was also one of her first "models" for the bias dress many years ago at the ASG Conference in Washington D.C.

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  21. I have your blog in my favorites and check it regularly. Thanks for the give-away.

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  22. I follow you via email & bloglovin - thank goodness. Wouldn't want to miss a post :) This dress is innovative and gorgeous. And I really like the petal sleeves.

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  23. I follow by email and have never commented before! Love your blog!

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  24. Love that dress and the bias cut, and of course, I follow you :)> Please enter my name in your drawing ...What a cool giveaway!

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  25. It's cold and rainy here on Cape Cod, too! Follow you via email.

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  26. Hi I follow via email. :-)

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  27. I follow via email. Love your posts for Sew News. This dress looks so intriguing.

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  28. The Perfect Dress for SEW many body shapes!
    I appreciate reading your blog via email and Bloglovin! SEW much inspiration that you share with us!
    Thank you.

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  29. I LOVE bias cut dresses and this pattern looks particularly interesting! I'm a bloglovin follower

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  30. I would love to win this pattern. It's definitely a dress I'd like to make. I follow your blog through The Old Reader.

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  31. I always look forward to your emails, they are always interesting, creative and different from the run-of-the mill. I really look forward to trying this pattern because I love the look and drape of a bias design - but it would be lovely to win it.

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  32. Hello, I follow you through basic e-mail. Thanks for a lot of enjoyment.

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  33. Rhonda, I follow you on Bloglovin' and I am most intrigued by the engineering of this dress. Would love to win the pattern. Thank you for your generosity in everything you do for the sewing community and the world.

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  34. Thanks for the give away! I follow your blog via email.

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  35. Your posts arrive in my email box. This dress looks flattering for many figure types.

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  36. How interesting - only 3 pattern pieces. And it has a lot of ease. I wonder how it would sit with someone who needs a petite adjustment above the waist. Would be fun to try. I follow via Bloglovin and Facebook. :)

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  37. The layout is very intriguing and I would love to try this pattern, in a linen. Thanks, Rhonda.

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  38. This pattern is indeed very interesting! I welcome the chance of winning it :). I follow via Bloglovin and Facebook. Hugs from Portugal!

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  39. Intriguing pattern! I follow you by bloglovin'.

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  40. New follower via email!
    Would love to win as shipping to Canada costs nearly as much as the pattern!

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  41. I would love to win. I follow on Blog lovin and Facebook.

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  42. This is such an interesting pattern. I would like to win it. Karen

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  43. I get your fabulous posts via email, thank you so much! I like the look of that dress. How do you think a FBA will go with this design? Perhaps the bias will smooth things out?

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  44. I get your newsletter by email [mpwhelanpeng2000 AT yahoo DOT com]. If I don't win this pattern, I will have to buy it.

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  45. Definitely a follower of your blog, I remember stumbling on it about five years ago when you did your 'Free Friday Patterns', learnt so much from you 😍. I follow via bloglovin. Thanks for the chance, very interesting dress pattern.

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  46. Love your blog! I follow with feedly

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  47. Hi Rhonda. I follow you via email and Facebook. Thanks for the pattern giveaway opportunity!

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  48. I would love to win this pattern. I follow you now but used to connect with your blog via Viviennefiles.

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  49. Hi! I definitely covet this pattern! I follow via email (at least I think I do....it's been more than 10 seconds since I signed up so I have no memory of it happening, but I do get emails....).

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  50. I can't wrap my brain around how this pattern works, but I like the end results!

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  51. Lovely dress. I follow with feedly.

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  52. That's truly intriguing! I might get my mojo back! I follow your blog via email.

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  53. I follow by e-mail & a daily visit. A great looking pattern that has larger sizes. Yeah!

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  54. I have always wanted to try a bias dress. I follow you on Bloglovin.

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  55. What an interesting looking dress! I follow via Wordpress.

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  56. Thanks Rhonda, I follow on Bloglovin. Bias dresses are the most flattering.
    Sue

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  57. Hi Rhonda, I follow your blog by email. This pattern looks fascinating; would love to win it!

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  58. The dress is lovely and very interesting. I would love a chance to win the pattern. I follow via Bloglovin.
    Thank you for the opportunity on this pattern and for all that you share. Love your blog!

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  59. Love bias garments. I follow via bloglovin.

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  60. I foll ow thru email. I think it would be fun to color block this dress

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  61. I've been wanting to sew a bias garment. I follow via Feedly.

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  62. Fascinating pattern. Please include me. I follow with Bloglovin'

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  63. I follow your blog through checking each and everyday. It's exciting to know that you are essentially back to daily posting. Please enter me in the pattern drawing. Thanks for all you do.

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  64. I follow you with Bloglovin' and I always intend to sew what you are making---one of these days.

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  65. Hi Rhonda,
    I receive emails in to follow your blog, but also follow you on Facebook too.
    This really is an intriguing pattern; love that it has only three pieces. Would so love to win this pattern and see how it comes together. I always seem to work on projects that take me forever; this would be a lovely quick project which I think I would love to both make and wear!!

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  66. I love this dress especially the clever layout! I follow via Bloglovin.

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  67. I follow your blog on Bloglovin. Thank you for showing the line drawing. When I saw the article in SewNews I kind of skipped it because the model was holding the hem and in the print couldn't see the lines of the dress. Will enjoy the sew-along.

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  68. Wow! That looks really like magic! I follow you also via Bloglovin and I get the new posts in my RSS feeds.

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  69. This looks like a divine fress, so very clever. Looking forward to the sew-along, what fun!I follow you by email and Bloglovin :)

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  70. I'm a Bloglovin followers!!! Thanks for the enter��

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  71. Wow! Only three pieces?!?! That is magic! From the line drawings and "bias" in the title, it would seem to be much more complex. Looking forward to trying this out! I follow you via email ( bloglovin).

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  72. Love a three-piece pattern! I follow via Bloglovin. Thanks for the contest!

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  73. I get your posts in my email and enjoy seeing them. I would love to try this dress. It looks to be perfect for my son's outdoor, causal wedding late this coming summer. I've been trying to figure out what to wear and this looks like a good option.

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  74. I follow you on Bloglovin'. This dress is amazing considering it only has 3 pieces.

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  75. The cut of this dress is very interesting. I Currently do not own a dress (except a trapeze style dress made of troll fabric saved from the 1980's as it is funny) and this one looks very nice. I love that it can be made into a top also.

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  76. Rhonda, I follow you (wonderful) blog via email. I love your positive and inspiring attitude and outfits.

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  77. Hi, Rhonda. I've been following you via email for a few years now. Love this dress! Your postings are always such an inspiration!

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  78. Been following your blog for a long time and love your style! The drape of bias clothing is so flattering.
    Thanks,
    Karen

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  79. Such a fantastic looking dress, Rhonda! Only 3 pieces? Magic!

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  80. Hi Rhonda, I follow your blog via Feedly. I'd love to win the pattern for this dress, the pattern piece looks intriguing!

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  81. Hi Rhonda, I’m an email subscriber/follower of your blog.

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  82. Hey, Rhonda, I follow your blog thru Bloglovin. I love the magic properties of the bias cut, I would love this pattern

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  83. What an interesting pattern! I follow your blog as an email subscriber.

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  84. I am very intrigued by this pattern. I am a long time follower of your blog and would love to win this giveaway. Thank you!

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  85. The dress pattern looks like fun. I follow Rhonda's Creative Life with Bloglovin'.

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  86. Hi Rhonda! What an interesting idea! I follow you on Bloglovin" and enjoy every post! Happy Easter!

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  87. That pattern looks amazing. I follow you on bloglovin

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  88. I love the dress and follow you on Bloglovin'.

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  89. I follow you on Bloglovin. That pattern is just scrumptious looking.

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  90. Yes, I am a follower of your blog and I receive them by email via Google. I love this dress and would like to have the chance to win the pattern, thank you.

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  91. Hello! I follow you on blog lovin' gotta say i love your mini approach to pattern questions...your simple logic approach has helped me extensively. Stay dry, and smiling:) TY

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  92. I follow you, as you know, on just about any and every way I can. I love this pattern and would love to have it. I will be traveling a great deal this summer out of this country, and this dress would be a great tag-along!

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  93. Interesting dress - I follow via Feedly. Kathy B

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  94. Im right there with you on line drawings; they really are the best way for me to imagine how a particular style might work for me. That dress is so cool; no bias cutting for the win! I've been following you on feedly ever since Google Reader ended. Thanks again for your continued generosity!

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  95. I follow on bloglovin....lovin it!

    Marsha Johnston

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  96. Email and bloglovin. The magic bias dress looks like a very simple yet stylish pattern.

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  97. I'm interested in how the pattern for this dress works, it looks great. I follow you via The Old Reader

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  98. Hey! Throw y name in the hat too!
    Greetings from Spain...

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  99. I've never done bias before but I really love the look. This would be an amazing pattern to win. Thanks for the chance. Lyn

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  100. Thank you for the opportunity! I follow your blog via Feedly.

    Rose in SV

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  101. Love this pattern - follow you in my feed !

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  102. Would love to win this pattern.

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  103. Interesting pattern, looks much better when made up than on the envelope!Would love to give it a try! I follow by email.

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  104. Wow! One of the most unique patterns I have ever seen! I am so excited to sew this dress... now, I have to find the perfect fabric! Thank you for highlighting the work of this talented designer.

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  105. Follow you via email... Can't wait to try this pattern!

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  106. I have that Threads Issue where that bias dress is featured and I have been in love with that dress ever since and trying to figure out which pattern was used! Now I know and I will try to recreate it if I can. I follow you via email.

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  107. Would love to win the pattern. Love your blog. Thanks!
    Follow you via email.

    kareng

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  108. Love your blog. Would love to win the pattern.

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  109. I'm a new blog follower (via Pinterest) after learning sbout yuor work in a back issue of Threads. I love wearing bias cut, but haven't sewn much (1 skirt) in it. Would love a new venture!

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  110. Love the dress. Love your blog. I follow via email.

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  111. I'd love to win the magic bias cut dress. Even if I don't win this looks like a fun sew along and I think I'll join you. I haven't done much bias sewing and look forward to seeing your hints.

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  112. Oops, I follow your blog via blogger and would love to win the pattern.

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  113. I'm a new follower and can't wait to do the Sew Along. I follow via email.

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  114. This is such an interesting dress. Just love bias

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  115. I enjoy your blog, great job, and I'd love to win this pattern.

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  116. I am also a new follower via email. I became so interested in the magic of bias that I plan to join the sew along. Fun!

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  117. I follow by email, and what a pleasure it is. I have several dresses that belonged to my grandmother in the 20s, and they are beautifully cut on bias. So graceful and flattering.

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  118. wonderful dress! i think i would use the pattern to make some woven summer tops. i've been dreaming of making some woven tops that are as comfortable as jersey tees, and this looks like it would be. i follow you by email, and love that you always provide information and inspiration as well as a review of your own sewing projects! thanks!

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  119. I remember when this garment wowed us all when it debuted on the ASDP runway.
    I follow on Bloglovin

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  120. The Magic Bias Dress is beautiful! I would love to take a crack at it!

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  121. I would love to make this dress for a wedding on New Year's Eve. I follow you my email. Thank you for this opportunity.

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  122. I love this dress! I follow you on Bloglovin! I plan to try it in a linen and hope I do it justice.

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  123. Wow!! I sew want to win and make this fabulous dress. Thanks for the chance. I get your emails (and read them all) xx

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  124. Beautiful dress. I would love to try this dress. I follow your blog by email and read AND save them all.

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