Mood:
irritatedNow Playing: "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" - DVD rental, better than I thought it'd be.
Well, we've moved into the single-outfit patterns and the foreign ones. I've worked it out fairly well by now. The 'new canvas' in PaintShopPro is a little smaller than a piece of paper in 'Landscape'. I cut the image - sometimes images ! - from each pattern, change it to greyscale. Then I remove the background with the 'line', 'shapes', and 'fill' tools, and sharpen it. After that, it gets resized to 250 pixels high. A 'cut' and 'paste as new layer' on the new canvas puts it in place, and I add the pattern name beneath. Then it's off to the next image. I can get anywhere from eight to twelve on a page. Like I said, this is gonna take a bloody long time.
But I'm actually enjoying m'self, and that's the good thing. And I sure don't have time to trawl eBay lookin' for more patterns ! Shoot, with all I have, there shouldn't be much more to want anyway.
Speaking of patterns, I've done more research. Seems Simplicity is quite fond of selling the same exact pattern under various numbers. The one I was looking at, for the Jem-sized part mostly, has been sold as 5356 (1981), 6363 (1983), and 8333 (1987). Another cute one, just for the Barbies this time, is 5637, sold first in 1982. It got reissued as 6369 in 1983. Another pretty Barbie-only was 1986's 7928, which was sold again in 1991 as 7270. Even their vintage reprint is a bit of a cheater. It shows, on the reprint envelope, that the original pattern had the same number, 5785. Nope. The original pattern was 1962's 4700, not 2002's 5785.
Now, I can understand when the pattern's being reissed after a few years that it may have a different number. The old number may be in use on another design, or something. But when it's got different numbers from one year to the next, you have to wonder. Are they trying to get doll sewists to buy the same pattern over and over ? More than once, I've checked my inventory by number, not image. But I remember most of what I have, so I haven't bought twice yet. That may be why I'm in such a hot rush to get it all cataloged.
Sometimes the envelope changes a lot, too. So ya can't even go by that always, either. (sigh) It's a rakehell business, doll sewing.
Washed and bleached a lovely white-star-on-white-cotton print that mice from our previous address...um, used. I think you know why I bleached it. Yuck. Luckily it came out, and the stars are still so pretty. And a couple of Dearest Son's shirts are cleaner, too !
Well, back to the ole cut-and-paste. Wow. So. Many. PATTERNS !!!!!1!!
