Sewing thread(?)/Question

[Ginny]

Is there a sewing thread?

I am looking for some advice on purchasing a pattern.

My daughter is 5 and we attend all the football games b/c my husband works with the youth. She has outgrown her old cheerleading uniform and I need some advice on purchasing a pattern...like "where" for starters.

All the ones I have looked out on-line just pull up patterns from the 70's!!!

 

[pmcleanj]

LOL! I thought you were asking about sewing thread: you know, like is Mettler's better than Koban, and is silk-finish cotton really worth the extra cost!

Simplicity, Butterick, and McCalls have pattern catalogues online. I know at least one of them has a cheerleading costume that's current, but it looks pretty old-fashioned. I have some patterns from New Look for dancewear, which is more similar to modern cheerleading costumes, I think.

Actually, I didn't have a clue that 5-year-olds did cheerleading, or what kind of costumes are appropriate nowadays. Cheerleading isn't really a Canadian "thyang". My daughters saw a cheerleading practice at the local high-school when we were visiting down in the States and were as fascinated to watch as they were watching the Lion-dancers in Chinatown or the drummers at the Tsitsika pow-wow, or any other strange and exotic alien custom LOL!

Maybe if you describe the look that you're after, I can be a little more use to you!

 

[pmcleanj]

Here's what's available at the mainstream pattern companies:

http://www.kwiksew.com/Cold_Fusion/...&Level=Girl_Swim_Activewear&QL=GirlSwimActive
(my mistake -- it was kwiksew, not New Look, that I was thinking of for dancewear!)

http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M4568.htm

http://www.simplicity.com/dv1_v4.cfm?design=5485
http://www.simplicity.com/dv1_v4.cfm?design=9798
http://www.simplicity.com/dv1_v4.cfm?design=9806

 

[Ginny]

I think kwiksew.com is down... I am never able to pull up their page...even their homepage (yet every other page pullsup fine)....

*shrug*

 

[whimzgirl]

Hi! I was a cheerleader for many years (starting at age 8 and ending when I was a senior in high school). My mom made my uniforms when I little and I think she used ice skating costumes for some of them. Maybe those will be easier to find than cheerleading costumes. I have seen costumes in the big 3 books (McCall's, Simplicity, and Butterick).

Hope that helps -- good luck and let us know how it turns out. Cheerleading is really a fun activity and it will make it much easier to move into public speaking later in life.

Hugs,

~~whimz~~

 

[Ginny]

Thank you.

I cheered throughout my younger years, too.

Actually, my daughter is not "in" cheerleading...it's just a fun thing to wear at the football games when we attend.

 

[AdJesumPerMariam]

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