Well I took a few trips to some 2nd hand stores in my area and came up with some fantastic finds this weekend! several vintage and 1 modern pattern that were all 1.00 a piece! they are all complete…one of them is a little wrinkly but they have all instructions and everything included. the top [...]
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A few weeks ago I was asked to be a pattern tester for a new indie pattern company that Abby was starting called Blue Ginger Doll. I received a lovely big package in the post a few weeks later that turned out to be the pattern for Abby’s first dress, the Billie Jean. It was a truly lovely [...]
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This past weekend our friends got married in a gorgeous little ceremony on the Gold Coast. When the wedding invitation first arrived I decided I would make myself a dress to wear. I spent a while searching for inspiration and after getting some advice on twitter about where to get some nice red lace I [...]
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A little over a year ago, I posted here about some fabric and patterns I found thrifting. A few days ago, upon receipt of the final part I needed to get my lovely 221-1 Centennial Featherweight actually sewing, I decided to put that fabric to some good use. (Why can’t I un-bold this? Aw, that’s ok! [...]
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After my favorite pair of store-bought cigarette-style pants had too many mends to be functional anymore, I decided I needed to bite the bullet and sew my very first pair of pants. When Gertie released a pattern for high-waisted capris through Butterick, I knew I had found what I was looking for! How I Knew [...]
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I’m not much of a country girl but I couldn’t resist adding a bit of western flare to my blue chambray dress! I used Simplicity 2851 from 1949. I just love late 40s looks! I used these cute metal buttons with stars and faux top stitching. And of course, it needed a self fabric belt! [...]
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Hello Happy Sewers! I’m here today with my Chardon skirt, a contemporary pattern, made using vintage fabric and trim. I estimate both the fabric and the trim to date from the late 1960′s/early 1970′s. This was my first experiment with attaching a trimmed border to fabric. I stitched inside the perimeter of the bottom and used [...]
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Step in shirt dress with or without top-stitch trim has bias collar and full length shirt sleeves; pockets in side seams Last year I purchased this sweet shirt dress pattern from eBay. It’s a lovely dress from 1967 and has all those things you’d expect from a late 60s dress like Bishop Sleeves and [...]
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I started working on this dress last June or July, and managed to finish it in under a year. Yay! This was one of the first vintage patterns I purchased, and it was both easy and fun to make. It took me so long to finish because I ran out of steam last summer [...]
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This is the story of the Brigitte Dress: Starting after almost a year with this sewing project was quite difficult. Firstly, because I lost my traced and graded patterns due to the fire we had last summer. I still have the original pattern, but it is size 3jp, which is very very small! I [...]
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