Posted in In the Sewing Room, Store News, tagged frugal, sewing, store on May 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rhonda, of Down to Earth, has a good post today about her and her dh reevaluating their budget in light of rising costs. Gas is now $3.99/gallon,here, and food costs are slowly rising. We are making sure lights and appliances not in use are off, hanging laundry to dry and consolidating trips into town. What [...]
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Vintage-y Goodness, tagged sewing, vintage on May 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Today I have more vintage style sewing for VTT! The pattern I used is a vintage Advance 5942 that my wonderful sister loaned me. I loved it- it sewed up very easily. It is an unprinted pattern, which seems to frighten some sewers off. Don’t let it! The patterns use notches and holes for all [...]
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Vintage-y Goodness, tagged sewing on May 12, 2008 | 28 Comments »
In honor of National Wear Your Apron Day (and my birthday!),
one lucky commenter will receive this apron!
I’ll draw a winner on Wednesday at noon,
to give plenty of time
for people to enter the drawing!
Best of luck!!
And a Happy Belated Birthday to my sister and BFF, Missy!
Pop over and give her some birthday [...]
Posted in In the Sewing Room, Vintage-y Goodness, tagged sewing, vintage on May 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I love vintage patterns and materials- love ‘em, love ‘em, love ‘em! I decided to post 2 pictures of things I made with vintage patterns and new materials and 2 things I made with modern patterns and vintage materials. Okay, everybody confused? Great! On with the tour!
The first is an adorable 50’s suspender shorts for [...]
