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May makes from the g&g pattern club meeting


The team here at g&g love to sew and make things as much as me so every few months at our team meetings everyone chooses to make one of the indie patterns we stock along with one of our lovely fabrics to test the pattern out.

It's a great way for us all to know how different fabrics and patterns sew up so we can give all you lovely customers even better advice and guidance with your own projects.

Claire used the Papercut patterns Bowline top in our lovely loopback jersey fabric. The neck detailing on this top is really interesting. It has a series of folds that create a pleated effect which looks really striking in the stripes.

Claire did find the way you have to fold the fabric at the neckline a little tricky but the sewalong on the Papercut blog make it super clear.

Meg used the Pauline Alice Rosari skirt pattern to make this really cute mini version in our mid blue denim.

She made the rounded pocket version with a coin pocket and put our jeans buttons down the front. She found it came up a bit bigger than she was expecting at the waist, so took some out the centre back seam.

The Closet Case Pattern Kalle shirt she's wearing with it is also really lovely!

Rosie made a version of the popular Colette Patterns Moneta dress in some of our lightweight black viscose jersey.

She lengthened it to a midi length and made a little belt which is really cute. She found the neckline a bit too scooped and wide for her so she changed the neckline shape to be a bit more like the lark tee.

Jo used the Closet Case Patterns Ebony pattern to make version C of the pattern using our mustard modal jersey.

It looks gorgeous and swooshy with the cascading style and she added patch pockets, which add a nice touch.

I think it looks lovely paired over jeans with her fancy shoes!

Finally, Ben used the free arrowsmith undershirt pattern from Thread Theory using our denim effect slub jersey.

He found that it does have a looser fit so recommends that if you wanted it to be a slim fit, to go down a size.

I think it looks lovely under his RTW pink shirt! To get the same effect you could always pair it with their Fairfield shirt pattern.

All the girls (and Ben too) are more than happy to help and chat through different projects with you in the shop, over the phone or via email. Between us we all know most of the patterns we have really well so usually have lots of extra tips and advice!

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Your digital files and video links can be accessed through your order history in your G&G account. Simply check your Order History to find your Order Assets, which include links to all files and videos.

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Tips on how to store and save your files and videos

There are a number of ways that you can access your files and videos for easy reference in the future. 

In your email inbox
We recommend creating a folder in your inbox to file the order confirmation email so that you can easily locate it in your inbox in the future. This is one way to be able to easily find your videos in your own inbox.

If you have accidentally deleted an order confirmation email and would like it to be resent to your inbox, please email us info@guthrie-ghani.co.uk and we can manually resend it to you. 

A saved playlist on Youtube

When you view a Hints and Tips video on Youtube, and are logged into the Youtube platform, you can save this video to your own playlist.

This playlist can be set to be a private playlist that you can view and all of the videos you have access to as part of a Sewing Society Kit or you have purchased as a stand alone video can be saved together here. 

Create a playlist

To create a playlist when you are logged into Youtube, click the three dots icon that is under the video next to the share button. A menu will appear, click on save.

Add to Playlist

A window will pop up with a list of all of your play lists (if you have any) as well as an option to + New playlist. Click on this button.

Private Playlist

Type in the name of your play list, here I’ve called mine Sewing Society Top Tips videos and I’ve set it to private, so only I will be able to view it. Then click on the ‘create’ button.

You can view your playlists and the videos saved within them by clicking on the playlist tab of your youtube profile.

Storing on your device or laptop

You can download the pdf files and save them to your computer or device. You may want to create an electronic filing system for all of your sewing pattern pdf folders. Then within that folder, have different folders for the sewing patterns you own. If you own a lot of PDF files you may want to organise them by sewing pattern company. 

Saving files to a device or computer relies on that computer or device always being accessible and in working order.

Saving to a google drive or cloud storage

You may have access to a google drive or another form of cloud storage such as dropbox that sits on the internet where you can save and store files. This works in the same way as sorting them on a device or computer but when they sit ‘in the cloud’ on the internet it means you can access them from any device as long as you have the login to that ‘cloud’ or drive. 

Within the account area on the g&g website

Your files and videos will be stored under your g&g account, within the order that you originally placed for the files and videos. These can be accessed at any time and the links do not expire. You can navigate to the files and videos by using the steps outlined above. 

We can also recommend that you may wish to make a note in a sewing note book or other other note book that you have of the order numbers that contain your digital files or links.

We hope these tips will help you to easily access the resources you have more easily and as always the g&g team are more than happy to help if you need any assistance at all in locating a specific order or files. Please do reach out to us by email info@guthrie-ghani.co.uk 

Happy Sewing!
The g&g team