I just adore the summer! And when I saw this cute retro 50s inspired BBQ print fabric, I just had to have it! Fabric: quilting cotton ($5/yd) Pattern: Vintage Vogue 2960 Year: 1954 Notions: black piping, covered buttons Hours to complete: 12 First worn: May 2012 Total cost: $30 I’ve seen quite a few versions [...]
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This pattern has been sitting in my pattern stash for at least a year (probably longer). I fell in love with the violet dress on the front as soon as I saw it, but the only problem was that I just couldn’t seem to find the right coloured fabric! It needed to be a violet [...]
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Gosh, it’ been a while since I contributed, but everyone’s doing such gorgeous things that lurking’s been awesome! A recent contributor reminded me I hadn’t shared last fall’s tussle adventure with rayon seam binding. Hope it’s useful! I began with lovely soft-as-butter green rayon, and used a favorite pattern, the straight skirt. Problems began with [...]
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Hi there, my name is Hannah Smith and this is my first post on We Sew Retro! I am very excited. I will start by sharing a little about myself. I taught myself to sew about 4 years ago and haven’t looked back since. It has become rather an obsession, as I am sure many [...]
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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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Oh how I adored this fabric when I first set my eyes on it! I couldn’t decide for months on which pattern would be better to use with my beloved flamingos. I finally decided to use another awesome vintage pattern reprint from Vogue – a v2961. The real awesomeness of this dress is that it [...]
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Well, our play opens tonight – which means that all of my toiles have been turned into garments, and everything is fit and ready to go! Now I get to play catchup and post some fun things. This dress ended up being my absolute favorite – the combination of the dress design and the fabric [...]
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Vogue 1043 made in 100% cotton from Ikea but it was such a colourful and happy pattern that I thought it would look great as a summer dress. The pattern has a pleated mock wrap, fitted bodice paired with a half-circle skirt. During construction I lengthened the sleeves to elbow length instead of the tiny cap [...]
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I promise, at some point, these will actually get made up in the actual fabric. I have five toiles to complete, for two actresses – it makes sense to get them all finished and just do a single fitting, as opposed to bringing the actresses in for multiple fittings. But I AM getting tired of [...]
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This winter I was fortunate to get some fantastic photos of my version of Vogue 1556, a dress from Yves Saint Laurent’s famous ‘Mondrian’ collection. (You can see my post on Vogue’s Mondrian collection patterns here.) Some of you may remember the dress from my We Sew Retro profile a while back. For the pattern’s [...]
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