this is my first post i follow ‘we sew retro’ for a while now and finally have decided to jump on the bandwagon .. so, this is a dress that i made using pattern from burda international magazine from the summer of 1978 .. i made some changes i’m always too lazy to trace skirt [...]
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Hello! It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted here, but I haven’t stopped my vintage sewing! I’ve recently started really trying to post my sewing efforts on my blog and get back into blogging! I just got around to posting about a dress I made this past December so I thought I would share [...]
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What to do with those precious left-over scraps of never-to-be-repeated vintage fabric? I decided that a quilt would be a good way to preserve mine, rather than trying to incorporate them into garments that would probably not stand the test of time. Starting with a small piece of ’60s cotton in orange/ brown/ yellow/ lime [...]
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My mother has seen my love affair with vintage patterns grow ever stronger, and she now thinks of me during her frequent trips to antique shops along the Oregon coast. These small town shops have amazing treasures that are far less picked over than what you’d find in Portland vintage shops, and at far better [...]
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This is Vogue 9134. It took me about a year to make, with several stops and starts. The fabric, a Dior double wool, is extremely bright and impossible to photograph. I used Sherry’s very informative tutorial on RTW coat making for the most part, and had some help from a Courrège chef d’atelier I met [...]
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After my resolution post yesterday, several of you pointed out that separates might allow me to fit more vintage sewing into my decidedly non-vintage lifestyle. An idea so genius it’s no wonder I didn’t think of it myself. So I hauled out some fabric originally earmarked for dresses (dresses that weren’t going to get sewn [...]
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I named this past year’s Christmas dresses after the Johnny Cash song because they’re frankenpatterned from three vintage patterns each. The collar and cuffs are done with Victorian fagoting stitching, the pinafores are thirties for the bigger one and forties for the smaller one, the bodice and skirts and collars are fifties dresses, and the [...]
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Hello all! It’s been awhile. I’ve been sewing, but I keep forgetting to take pictures of my projects. It’s one of my goals for the coming year – document my projects a little better and MAYBE start my own blog. I’ll keep you posted. This little project came about because my every day clothing is [...]
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So thanks to all those who made suggestions on my previous post. About what to do with the vintage fabric. I decided to go for simplicity lisette pattern 2059. now in the past with lisette patterns I’ve found them to be on the narrow side. So was a bit wary and made sure to add [...]
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For my Halloween costume this year, I made a 1970s evening dress by Givenchy, Vogue 2014. I was making my wife a Daenerys costume based on the character’s outfit in the season 2 finale of Game of Thrones, so with the help of a red mask I went as Quaithe of Asshai (the version from [...]
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