Above: A lovely doll my mother made when she was learning to sew in the early 1960s. “She’s lost her face and is a little sad-looking but notice the fancy hairstyle and the gathers on the sleeves and bodice. She used to have a petticoat and pantaloons but they are gone now.” How much did [...]
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I’m making matching heirloom dresses for my nieces–one is eight months and the other is three years old. When those are done, I’ll probably post about them here, because that particular pattern has been in print for about 30 years! Anyway, the volume of the skirt really needed some poof under it, and a full [...]
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I saw this pinafore over a brown dress in the Betsy McCall paper doll archives, January 1960. I really wanted to make something ‘in that flavor’ for my daughter. I’ve been in a sewing lull lately… she hasn’t needed new clothes at the rate she did earlier this year. The pattern the paper doll page [...]
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My 9 year old daughter has a 1960s day coming up at primary school next week and she wanted something special to wear. We had great fun designing and making a mondrian dress. I had to use a bit of artistic license adapting her design but we had loads of fun and made loads of [...]
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Long story short, besides Fraggle Rock, my daughter’s other favourite show is Yo Gabba Gabba! and last night was the Yo Gabba Gabba! concert. I really wanted to make my daughter something theme-ish to wear and originally thought to make one of the dresses like the girls wear in the show for the “My name [...]
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Hi everyone! I’m very glad to find a community of like-minded sewists! I’m no stranger to sewing, having been taught as a child from my mother who used to make all our clothing. However I’ve been on a 12 or so year hiatus from garment creation, so I’m trying to wade back in and brush [...]
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Bit asked for a “pumpkin dress” followed by an “Aunt Laura will you make it for me?” so I cast around and found a pumpkin print that wasn’t Halloween, and a pattern that I’d bought with the intention of using it to sew a petticoat to go under her Christmas dress. It’s Simplicity 8429, from [...]
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Okay, my three-year-old niece, Little Bit, insisted on being a, “nice pumpkin, not a scary pumpkin, but with big teeth and fangs” for Halloween this year and that her baby sister, Boo, wanted to be “a pumpkin just like me”. We drew the face together– And then I started looking for patterns. It took [...]
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Hello everyone! I wanted to share my most recent project, a little girl’s romper/skort from the late 60′s. I used Simplicity’s 8221 from 1969. The pattern was really easy so I whipped it up in flash! However, I did take a couple days to sew the rick rack trimming; it likes to keep fraying /: [...]
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In spite of not starting these until the Tuesday before Easter, I finished these frocks with enough time to do a photoshoot and Easter isn’t until tomorrow! Of course getting a decent picture of two very active girls is a bit of a trick… With Amy (little one’s) dress, I decided to leave the scalloped apron [...]
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