Simplicity was the name of dress patterns you could buy, although I must say I never found them as simple as they said. And then I saw something in my garden which showed me how simple and beautiful nature can be. I have been observing the bees for some time when they swarm around my sedum plant. They need no instructions, something we call instinct, for lack of knowing why. Today it was a bees outing and they were all there doing whatever they do. I even saw this bumble bee hovering around, his pullover covered in pollen dust.
The bumble bee seemed to go for my pink variety of sedum, probably exactly his taste, whereas the other bees were happy to swarm around the more darker shades. Was it the colour, or the scent that attracts them. Perhaps the experts know the answer, but what could be more simple than a pleasant September day with the sun in the garden just observing the bees. I was their court photographer
Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 
I remember those patterns!
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I think you can still get them.
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The first thing I thought of when I saw the prompt was “sewing” and my mom saying, “Choose Simplicity or McCalls. Butterick is ridiculously complicated.” Strange what sticks in our minds. I sewed a lot from Simplicity patterns.
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I went to dressmaking classes for about 20 years and made all my own clothes, as well as trousers for the kids. We never used Simplicity patterns as we had a lady that showed us the way with tracing our own patterns from magazines where they had them free. I didn’t like simplicity because they always had the edge on them for the seam. I preferred to add my own amount of seam.
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Such pretty flowers, bees, and photos of them. Dressmaking classes for 20 years is impressive and then putting the knowledge to making all of your own clothes is super impressive.
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They were the pre golden oldie days where fashion meant more than finding something that fits and hides the places which were better hidden. I no longer touch the sewing machine very much, prefer my computer. 🙂
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You’re fashioning stories and poems on the computer now 🙂
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How true! And such lovely flowers!
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The sedum are really looking wonderful at the moment, all in flower and an attraction for the bees.
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What a lovely sight it must be!
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mine have much paler pinks but I too think they are so modest, ask for nothing but plenty of water (which IS something here in France – we haven’t had a drop of rain for weeks and weeks and weeks) and bloom copiously.
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They come in various shades of pink. I have two sorts, one much darker than the other. Although I give them water daily, I think they are not so fussy and can store it well in their thick leaves. We too have had no rain for a few weeks.
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Here’s my entry for Simplicity. I hope y’all are doing well! https://queennandini.wordpress.com/2019/09/14/rdp-saturday-simplicity/
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Oh my! I remember my older sister borrowing and trading Simplicity patterns with her friends when we were kids.
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Everyone went for the Simplicity patterns. I made my own clothes for many years and would trace the patterns out from the free sheets supllied in a fashion magazine.
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I think that back then, the local public library had files of them for young ladies to borrow. Girl Scouts shared them with their friends.
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