Sewing and Knitting Vintage-Style

My sewing has been minimal, at best, for the last week. Sick with a random upper respiratory virus, my time has been mainly spent in bed when not involved in the absolute necessary activities of life (work, sleep, feeding children). Over the weekend, I watched what should have been about 3 month’s worth of movies.…

Just when I was really starting to get some momentum going with building my own wardrobe, I looked down and realized that Guinevere had a gaping wardrobe hole. Her bathrobe, a ready-to-wear option we had picked up at Target some time ago, was still too big in the shoulders, but ever so much too short…

I knew the Stashbusting sew-along theme for January had been focused on sewing up itty-bitty pieces, but I also knew that if 2013 was going to be the year of the stash-bust, it meant doing something with a very special piece of fabric right out of the gate. You know the kind of fabric I…

I’ve done a re-do for the photos of my vintage Simplicity 7147 and I like these much better. So as not to have a disappointed little girl worried that she’d been fired forever as a photographer, we told Guinevere she could do a “training session” on photo-taking for Daddy. Her first advice to him was…

Thank you for commiserating with me on sleeve fitting issues (and for not trying to sell me on some “if you just do this simple thing, you’ll shrink your arms in no time” plan. I’m not against arm-toning, but for right now I’d like to focus on making the clothes fit my current shape) I’m feeling much…

I’ve been a little blue this week. Just when I thought I was going to be able to get more comfortable with documenting me-made clothing with photographic evidence of my wearing for all to see, I hit a bump in the road that made things all uncomfortable again. So here we go:I made a dress…

I’m still sewing, but I’ve made great progress in the knitting sphere lately too. While Pete’s Guston Sweater was awaiting blocking and seaming, I kept up the knitting by casting on an Oriental Lilly Sweater (available on Ravelry as a free download) for Guinevere. This is a quick and easy knit with no seaming and only a…

Have you noticed the new button on my blog? That’s right, I’ve joined up for a year-long sew-along based in stash-busting. Hosted by Cindy of Cation Designs and Emily from Em Sew Crazy, this is an idea I can really get behind. I’ve got at least 15+ years worth of accumulated fabrics. Some are fairly recently acquired…

The picking up of a handicraft more portable than sewing has finally paid off in a finished product! I’d shown how I was thinking about starting, then how I was working on a sweater for Pete, including the reason it was being made up in an impossible to photograph orange color. Now it’s finally done.…