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		<title>&#8220;X&#8221; Back Bikini Top</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My model Alex mentioned that she would like a swimsuit that did not have a strap around the neck. The photos below show what I created. The ties go from rings in the front, across the back to the opposite side, then back to tie at the rib cage level at center back. Once we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing One Dart to Two</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am working on a design concept for custom-fit bras based on the Bust Sling from my eBook How to Make Custom-Fit Bras. This design lends itself quite naturally to a bra for nursing mothers. A neighbor of mine is about to give birth to her second child. She has graciously agreed to test this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Classes &#8211; Why Take One?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started thinking of teaching pattern design online I seriously considered the question &#8220;Why should anyone take a class I offer online?&#8221; My description that follows is going to be a little long winded. Fortunately I have a student in my last class that put it very succinctly. I quote her below with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Red Dress Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[







Bill Rivers

Raj and Susan Walia


To see a larger version, click on an image.More Photos on Flickr



Awhile ago a friend of my wife and I, Bill Rivers, mentioned he was going to celebrate his 50th birthday by doing the AIDS/LifeCycle 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles from June 6-12, 2010. We got to [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1970s I wrote in my book How to Make Sewing Patterns about how you could fit yourself using typewriter ribbon to mark those hard to reach places. Who would know back then that typewriter ribbon would become so hard to obtain. 
Fortunately I have found a product that works as a wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Sewing Patterns &#8212; book update</title>
		<link>http://deofsf.com/blog/2010/03/09/how-to-make-sewing-patterns-book-update/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote my book, How to Make Sewing Patterns, back in 1977 and have been asked if I had plans to revise it. There are only two things I do differently today than when I wrote the book 33 years ago. So I am focusing my time on teaching my online Patternmaking Classes and developing [...]]]></description>
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