Sewing and Knitting Vintage-Style
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Vogue 8890 and Burda 7918: Top Secret Project Revealed
How do I even begin to post on a project as monumental as the mystery project I finished last week. OK, maybe “finished” is a bit of an overstatement, but more on that later. Maybe it’s best to just let a picture do the explaining. Yes. My mystery project was a men’s suit. The…
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Tiny Boy Clothes
I had the recent opportunity to try out two of the other Peek-a-Boo Patterns I recently acquired. I’m still really loving this pattern line. This time I used the Classic Chinos pattern and the Classic Polo pattern (both in size 6 months) to make up an outfit for our other friends who are expecting a baby this…
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Cake Patterns Tiramisu: 2nd Edition
I’m still working on my mystery project (which has me saying weirdly obvious things out loud, such as “wow, 9 yards is the same as 27 feet”, just because it took something like 5 hours to cut out the pieces from the 9 yards of fashion fabric), but with two muslins needed for someone who doesn’t live…
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Hello Peek-A-Boo Patterns; Welcome to My Stash
I’m making some progress on my mystery project (I love that you are trying to guess what it is, but no one has guessed correctly yet). 2 muslins down and I think I’m ready to cut into the real fabric. In the meantime, we have friends having their first baby (a girl) soon. There was…
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Not a Space Suit
I’ve got a project on the brain. Not just any old project either…one of those intense ones. Actually, it started off intense and has somehow grown into something even more. I’m not making a space suit (this time), this project will be just a little less…shiny than a space suit. The usual practice, I’ve noticed,…
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McCall’s 7989: I Heart the 90’s
Hooray! I managed to sneak in one last vibrantly colored April Stash Bust before the end of the month (being on the West Coast of the United States, it is still April here, for a few hours at least). The pattern is a slip-dress from a 1995 copyrighted McCall’s (7989) pattern. I couldn’t use…
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Butterick 5748: Vintage to Modern
Remember how I had said that my in-laws anniversary party was 50’s-60’s themed? Thus the squirrel skirt for Guinevere that was needed. I couldn’t let such a perfect reason to sew up a vintage-y look pass me by without getting a new dress for myself. Enter Butterick 5748, a re-issue of a 1960 pattern. Looking…
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Cake Patterns Tiramisu (and Now I’m Hungry)
This project has taken me months. That may be an exaggeration. As far as construction goes, it really didn’t take that long in actually working on it. As far as getting it started and finishing it up, that took much longer than it should have. Back when Cake Patterns were just getting started, I was…
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Simplicity 8488: Triple the Nightgowns (and a Minion Hat on the Side)
I’m going to start this off with a relatively quick knitting project I recently finished. The “Minion Hat” for Ace. His most favorite of favorite movies is Despicable Me, so when he found out that there were instructions out there for a hat, he commenced asking me about making him one…and repeated his questioning liberally…