In case you are feeling a touch of deja vu, I must admit I’ve already shared this Floral Rizzo blouse on this site back in March. However, I have finally created a suitably kitschy-retro looking skirt which I feel brings out this blouse’s full potential. The skirt was made from a decidedly un-vintage 1990′s high [...]
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I found a bunch of these Simplicity books wedged in with the patterns. This one just tickled me pink! Denim is worn everyday out here even to church on Sundays. I’m guessing this catalog must be 70s. I cannot find a date on it. Here’s a few pages. Enjoy! Are you feeling the need to [...]
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I made this version of Lady Edith’s black floral blouse from Season 1 of Downton Abbey way back in January but I never got around to making a skirt to go with it…. at least until now! The skirt is Butterick 9682 from 1915 which is available from Past Patterns. It has pockets! Early 20th [...]
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This post includes a few different projects, all of which started with the same piece of fabric as inspiration. Some of you may remember this dress that I made last summer. The pattern was one of the Butterick re-issues, and the fabric was a birthday present from my mom a few years ago. It was [...]
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Summer is the perfect time for shorts and these shorts are so fun! (Yes, they are shorts!). I used Wearing History’s Rita pleated shorts pattern. They are crazy fun to wear and I’m so wishing that I’d made them earlier in the summer! The pattern is based off of late 30s/early [...]
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Hello fellow sewers! My boyfriend & I just took a road trip from Northern California to Austin, Texas and along the way we drove thru Arizona. I had never visited Arizona before and was extremely excited to see the saguaro cactus & gorgeous desert landscape! I instantly had the idea to make a cactus skirt [...]
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Not the most exciting skirt in the world but hopefully the beginnings of lots of variations on a theme! It took me a while to fully understand how to create an accurate skirt pattern but now I think I have mastered it! I have documented how to do it on my blog. It’s probably old [...]
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Being between flats and jobs is not the most desirable place to be. That is, however, the case and that’s why I have been so very quiet here. I made this simple but cute black 50′s circle skirt to bear the heat of the summer in London. The pattern is the same as in this [...]
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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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Hello! Thanks so much for the help with my last pattern… I’ve gotten the bodice entirely muslined, and I have pictures to post, but a query on my current project right now. I picked up Butterick 7720, a simple 50s pencil skirt pattern, for $4 at a local antiques mall. I just happen to [...]
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