‘Meditations in a Sewing Emergency’ Ensemble
The Facts Fabric: 2 metres of lightweight wool £10, 2 metres mystery lining material £1 and 2 metres of blue cotton sateen £10 Pattern: [...]
The Facts Fabric: 2 metres of lightweight wool £10, 2 metres mystery lining material £1 and 2 metres of blue cotton sateen £10 Pattern: [...]
The Facts Fabric: 2 metres of red velvet from a curtain £8 from a charity shop Pattern: Butterick 8131 from the Sew Weekly Sewing [...]
The Facts Fabric: barely over 1/2 yard of mystery fabric (some sort of synthetic) £0.25, Pattern: Moi! Year: Current Notions: blue seam binding, £0.25 [...]
The Facts Fabric: 1.5 metres of purple and blue wool from a charity shop, £2 Pattern: Simplicity 2154 Year: c. early 60′s Notions: purple [...]
The Facts Fabric: 1 pair of long velvet curtains from charity shop £10, Pattern: McCall 3456Year: 1939Notions: 9 self-covered buttons from etsy, £2 Time [...]
The Facts Fabric: 2 metres of mystery fabric (some sort of synthetic) bought from JoAnn’s sale bin two years ago, £5 Pattern: StylePrint 1283 [...]
The Facts Fabric: 1 metre of Japanese Kokka cotton from Retrosaria fabric store in Lisbon £8, 1.5 metres of blue twill (ebay UK score) [...]
The Facts Fabric: 3 metres of cotton 'Jardin, Sandy Klop, American Jane, Moda' from Stonemountain Fabric in Oakland, £18Pattern: McCall's 8947Year: c. 1952Notions: 1 [...]
The Facts Fabric: 3.5 metres of cotton 'Nutmeg Seeds Orange, SE1 for Robert Kaufman' fabric gift from Fancy Moon Pattern: Style Print 1283Year: c. [...]
The Facts Fabric: 1 metre baby blue houndstooth fabric that I won in a giveaway, .10 metres of lightweight wool fabric for collar (a [...]
If you’re still on the fence about participating in this week’s challenge (don’t have any vintage patterns, don’t know where to start), here are [...]
Next week’s theme call for a creation inspired by the 1940s. The 1940s happen to be (at least, at the moment) my favorite fashion [...]
This week’s 10 Things comes from Loran. Her point “8″ is particular relevant to me — I met her first at the Alameda Point [...]
Last Saturday was the Art Deco Society Preservation Ball and while my friend, Libett, and I didn’t make our gowns, I’m pretty certain that [...]
Next week’s theme calls for us to sew something using at least two different prints. I have a pretty difficult time when it comes [...]
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