I'm wanting to make a shirt like this http://www.etsy.com/listing/32147606/sunny-fields-smocked-top?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_query=smocked+halter+top&ga_search_type=&ga_page=&order=&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title but I'm having problems. I found a tute online and I did what it said. I bought some elastic thread and hand wound the bobbin loosely. I backed stitched both the beginning and the end. It said not to worry if it didn't gather too much but mine gathered ALOT. It had no give to it. anytime I pulled on it even the slightest bit the threads would snap and everything came out. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong here. can anyone help PLEASE!!!

I want to make my one yr old a pumpkin this yr. Simplicity has a really cute pattern but they are not on sale this week and by the time the go on sale it will be halloween. so I need help I want it to be fluffy. any advice?!?! TIA

we decided that our kids would be a prince and princess for halloween. I have the princess costume figured out but I'm lost on the prince. any ideas? or where to find a good patterns?

I just started sewing for profit and got my serger out. I haven't used it in years. I cleaned it and got it all ready but when I start to serge it loose and not catching correctly. I don't have my manual anymore ( I lost in my house fire years back) I tried to find on online but the pics look nothing like my machine. I don't remember how it's suppost to be set with out the manual. Anyone know how to correctly set it or where to find a manual??? TIA!

I have seen on myspace and a bunch of forms online where people have a linkable banner to their etsy shop in their siggys. How do you do that. I have made a banner but how do I make it linkable to my shop?

This is a grooms cake I did for a friend of mine. The bottom keyboard part is 2 layer white cake cover with buttercream and fondant keyboard keys. The screen is just cardboard covered with fondant and pics added. I was pretty pleases with it. It was the talk of the wedding. Everyone liked it better than the brides cake. And it was a surprise to the groom and he loved it.
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I'm already racking my brain trying to figure out what my son and daughter will be this year. She will be 21 months old and he will be 2 months old. I want them to kinda match. Not like be the same thing but for their costumes to go together. I first thought of dorthy and toado (sp?) but my husband doesn't like that idea. any other suggestions? TIA

My husband wanted a camo onesie for our son's coming home outfit but I forgot to buy one so I decided to just make it. Once I finished it I decided her need a matching hat then decided he need shorts too. Then I decided that my one year old need a matching outfit too. i had a pattern for his onesie and shorts but made the pattern on the hat. And had no pattern for my daughters outfit.

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I really want to make a nursing cover to have while at church. The only tutorials I have been able to find are for these square things that hang from you neck but I really want something that wraps around. But I can't get my brain working on how to make one. Any ideas?