Hello, Ladies! My sewing adventures have recently taken me to Washington, D.C. where I studied (amongst other things) the First Ladies’ gown collection and other gorgeous costume exhibits. But my favorite part of the whole trip, was dressing up like Jackie! There is nothing I love better than sewing a reproduction of a famous outfit, [...]
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Hello, Ladies! I’m sure you were all as thrilled as I was when Butterick released their early summer collection last Wednesday – mainly because of the pattern shown below! Isn’t is so exciting that there’s finally a repro pattern with a shelf bust design? I had been waiting for something like this for years. Well, [...]
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Hello, Folks! Usually December is the busiest month of the year for lots of reasons. For me, it can often also be my busiest month of sewing! It’s not that I put stuff off until the last minute, it’s just that I often come up with all these exciting projects which simply cannot wait until next [...]
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Hello, Ladies! This Christmastime I am posting a vintage holiday sewing project on my blog each week, and since I started with a green velvet number in November I think I’ll have a pretty wide selection of Christmas frocks online by the end of December! I have something very exciting planned for New Years Eve, too, but for now I’ll show [...]
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Hello, Ladies! I am very excited to share this pattern review of the brand new 1958 Party Dress Pattern by Sense & Sensibility Patterns! If you have been into historical costuming at all, you are undoubtedly very familiar with S&S Patterns’ phenomenal Regency & Edwardian designs. And even if you are strictly a retro dress [...]
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Hi Ladies! Is everyone as excited as I am about the new line of designs that Gertie has produced for Butterick? When I got the email about Butterick’s new fall collection (or more particularly about the “Gertie” patterns), I just about went berzerk! You see, I had been saving this gorgeous piece of gold glitter-speckled [...]
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Well, there’s a first time for everything, right? With all the posts I’ve written here I haven’t yet been asking for help, but this is an exception! You see, after my recent foray into buying vintage patterns for sale on Ebay, I received some purchases in the mail that truly surprised me – there was a [...]
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Hello All! Hooray for the red, white, and blue! Hope you’re having a wonderful Fourth of July! I wanted to share pictures of my recent creations for this holiday, sewn with some vintage designs from the 1940s. I sewed a red silk blouse from one of my favorite patterns, the Romantic Blouse Pattern from www.sensibility.com [...]
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Hello Ladies! You might not recognize me if I’m not wearing a 1950s dress, but I did indeed break away from that era and sew something from the 1940s! Have many of you seen the new design that Simplicity released recently? It’s a knee-length dress with 3/4 length sleeves, a princess seamed front panel, [...]
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Hello Ladies! With how much sewing I’ve done this year, it seems hard to believe that I had not yet sewn one single 1950s dress until now! The 1950s quickly became my favorite “wearable” era last summer when I discovered the fun of making Butterick’s “walkaway dress”, so you can be sure I snatched up [...]
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