Here it is! My first contribution to WeSewRetro! I made this little shirt for my niece and I also entered it in our county fair. I found the pattern at a church sale for a dime and I got the cute zebra fabric at an estate sale. The machine embroidery patterns I got free on-line. I had [...]
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Hi Everyone! I’ve been a long-time reader and even contributed a couple posts many years ago. My sewing took a hiatus but my pattern collecting did not and now that I have a little girl I’ve been sewing more for her. My latest creation for Muffin is Patterns Pacifica 7008 from the 1970s. [...]
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So, if you’ll recall, back in December I made skirts and blouses for both of my girls, with the idea that I could then make skirts of different material for Easter. It turns out that skirts weren’t the best idea, since neither girl has a waist to speak of, but I already had the Kaufman [...]
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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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Here is my little one’s outfit for Easter (if he doesn’t outgrow it before then)! He had a store-bought sailor suit just like this one last year, and I loved it so much that I decided to make another one just like it for this year, using the old one as a pattern. It’s made [...]
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The Kindergarten that my children attended is turning 75 this year and the director of the kindy has asked me to sew some clothes that the children might have worn when it opened in 1937. These will be worn by children at a street parade in our city in May. I thought it might be [...]
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Okay, okay, before I say exactly why I’m over the moon, I ought to give background information. When my oldest niece, Bit, was approaching her second Halloween, my SIL asked me to make her a Foofa costume. I did it, using a vintage 70s pattern as the base, because it was an A-line dress with [...]
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I still can’t quite believe that the movie, The Wizard of Oz was made in 1939! I made this Dorothy dress for my daughter for World Book Day, which is being celebrated at her school this coming Friday. A week later than the official date but that suited me just fine and gave me time [...]
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I just finished up this dress for the little one, from Butterick 7410 (1950s- shown right below). It’s effectively a mini version of a suspender skirt I made for myself last year: what I had left from that was only really big enough pieces for something like this, and I used the same lining, buttons [...]
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