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Bummed & Confused

I was perusing Flickr and I found this great dress pattern, Antoinette, and one for boys' pants too!  Then, after weeding through a bunch of links and web pages in Dutch I could not understand, after seeking help from Google Translate, I finally realized, the PDF pattern is no longer available for purchase!  Why?  Why would you do this to me Van Katoen people?  It's not fair.

Antoinette



And the pants - Broek



Always late to the party. Sometimes not invited

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  1. The pattern of the pant is still available. You can contact the woman who made it at:
    http://www.zonen09.com/#!contact. There you can fill in a form (boodschap = message), (onderwerp = subject). She's planning to design more boy's patterns and sell them on the net. I bet she knows more about the Antoinette, too.
    Good luck, and if you're having problems, I can try to act as a translator: riaenmark(at)kpnmail(dot)nl
    Greetings from the Netherlands, Ria.

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    1. Oh thank you so much for the reply. I did finally figure out the boy's pants pattern is still for sale. But I'm glad she will be designing more. I'll have to keep checking back.

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  2. The other dress is available too for purchase. http://levenmetliv.blogspot.ca/

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  3. the other dress is still on sale.
    http://levenmetliv.blogspot.ca/
    CArolina

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