Despite the monumental fitting headache that was Simplicity 4727 (1943), I decided to suck it up and take on its close numerical predecessor, Simplicity 4718. I’m going to hazard a guess that they were not drafted by the same person. This pattern took me less than a decade to complete. To begin with, I know [...]
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This is a bit off-topic but it’s very, very, interesting. The video shows you how to reconstruct (as best researchers can tell) the braided hairstyle of the Roman Vestal virgin priestesses. A bit more on the Vestals, from Wikipedia (yeah, I know–not academic).
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Okay, this is both not-retro and beyond-retro, but since it’s newly-sewn non-modern clothing, I’m including it. I also hope it might be helpful to anyone else who sews this pattern, since it’s a common pattern. I have a small group of friends with whom I play “old-timey” music–guitar, banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, washtub bass–a few times [...]
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Introducing . . . the dress I meant to wear for the Fourth of July. At long last, I have something to show for my months of work, zillions of test muslins, and shameless pleas for help. I believe I stated that I thought the pattern had been drafted by muskrats with drinking problems. I [...]
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My latest retro sewing project is still bogged down in pattern alteration, although I think I’m past the worst of it and can begin doing actual sewing again. Meanwhile . . . some of us knit retro, too. Honestly, of all of us who knit retro, I probably do it least, but everybody has to [...]
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I made this skirt a while back but didn’t want to post it until I had an appropriate blouse. I was, until about an hour ago, the only woman in the Western world who didn’t own a white blouse. One white T-shirt, yes, and one decrepit white camisole fit only for sleepwear, but no white [...]
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I’m still working on the crazy bodice from 4727, but I really, really, needed a successful sewing project, for the sake of my mental health. Since I already knew that the skirt from 4727 fit, I went ahead and hauled out the black denim remnant and made the skirt-only version seen at left: This isn’t [...]
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I am such a doofus: I just realized that the illustration at the top of the We Sew Retro page represents the decades 1910′s through 1970′s. Doh! That said, has anyone else here attempted the sundress version of Simplicity 4727 (1943)? What were your results? I spent my evenings last week altering it down to [...]
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This isn’t my page (I don’t work for her, we’re not sorority sisters, etc.) but I found it when I was looking for something else and it’s so awesome I have to share. I sew for dolls only occasionally, and I’m sort of burned out on seeing stuff for 18-inch “toddler-type” dolls (short, chubby, bodies), [...]
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This just popped up on my Facebook feed. I was a Girl Scout for about a week so I could go to camp with my cousin Mary, but my mother was a die-hard Scout for fifteen years. My brother considers himself a third-generation Eagle Scout because Mom was a Curved Bar (highest rank at the [...]
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