Posted in Vintage-y Goodness, tagged vintage on May 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
My most favorite thing about the internet is the WEALTH of vintage images that are available. Vintage lovers (people who love vintage things, not granny-aged smootchers) are generous people and seem to be happy to share their collections with those of us don’t have boxes of ephemera. Someone has put together a site to share [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Vintage-y Goodness on May 1, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I found this at Confessions of an Apron Queen . And it was perfect timing, because I just finished an apron with vintage material I’ve had in my stash forever. It is a very fine cotton printed with yellow rosebuds, almost like a voile, just lovely. I made it to send with an overseas friend [...]
