Sewing and Knitting Vintage-Style
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Cake Hummingbird: In the Wild
Just in time to start in on the Red Velvet Cake Sewalong beginning tomorrow, I finally finished up the Hummingbird skirt from the last Cake Sewalong. If you were following the Flickr group for the Hummingbird sewalong, there was a picture of the top being worn by my dress-form (who should have a name,…
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A Dapper Pair of Lads
The only thing more fun than having a boy wearing a red suit is having two of them. Best GQ pose. I love this picture, I can see a glimpse of what he’s going to look like as he becomes a young man. Sneering look from the youngest child. What else could be expected? (This…
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Corkscrew Cambie
This lovely young lady is my friend Tori. She needed a dress on a tight schedule so she could attend a wedding. Obviously I jumped at the opportunity to revel in creating a confection of satin and chiffon. Actually I said “yes” to the dress-making before I knew exactly what she had in mind…
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Anna Dress: The Jungle Cat Version
Following my Banana Anna, I could hardly wait to make another version; this time in the longer length. As far as I can tell from the multiple versions of this dress I’m seeing getting made up by other sewcialists, the front split seems to be the most popular feature of this dress, but it wouldn’t…
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Banana Anna
What to say about this dress? Obviously it’s just a little bit over the top (understatement?) but still gloriously wearable in my estimation. I tried to tone it down with serious shoes, but this dress just wants to dance. I mean that literally. Pete and I just started taking Salsa lessons, and that’s…
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Vintage Noir
This month’s challenge on The Monthly Stitch was vintage patterns. It was the perfect reason to finally get to a dress I’ve been planning to make for almost a year now. The pattern is Advance 8211, a pattern so good they released it twice. First as Advance 7011 which was unprinted, and the second…
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Knits for Guinevere
While I’m waiting for the skirt of the dress I’m making for The Monthly Stitch to finish hanging so I can hem it, I thought I’d post a couple more of my finished knitting projects. This one is the January Baby Cardigan which is available as a Ravelry download. I love the look of the mock-cables…
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Guston Sweater Revisited: As Much Like a Cheeto As Possible.
I’m going to interrupt Aunty Laura’s saga of dress refashioning and change the subject entirely. To knitting, in fact. Last year I asked Pete what color sweater he wanted, and part of the description he gave me of the “burnt orange” he had in mind is that it “wouldn’t make him look like a Cheeto.”…
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Aunty Laura’s Confession
I have a confession. A weakness. An unforgivable trait. (Besides being terribly tardy and sporadic in my blog posts. For which I hope my sister will forgive me. Eventually.) No. There is something else. Something that I believe no one else quite understands. Thrift stores. Not that I mean to infer that thrift stores are…