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Winter always turns to spring and there are some great warm weather styles in my Etsy shop CoudreMODE Vintage Patterns. #gallery-1 { The past month has been a blur of holidays, work, snow, pattern uploading, school, dance, snow, work, school, seed catalogs, snow and more snow. I’m not one of those people who bitch about winter though and this lovely blanket of white is good news for spring and summer gardening. I also have my [...] This weekend I’ve been cataloging patterns as there is a good amount of work to do to get them ready for Etsy. I have a big spreadsheet going that will have all the pattern data: brand, year, decade, style, size, bust-waist-hip and condition. Quite a few are still in their factory folds and [...]
(c) 2010 Helen Howes A few weeks ago a comment was left on a post about my 1928 Willcox & Gibbs industrial. Helen Howes, who is a textile artist in the UK, has one very similar to mine and and she asked for a threading diagram. It’s good to know there [...] Elizabeth asked me to do a tutorial on tying a gathered scarf drape and I’m thrilled she asked because it’s my favorite. I also have rarely (ever?) seen this one on the web. I can’t recall where I learned it;. must have been years ago when I bought a silk scarf and maybe [...] The weather this weekend has been glorious and yesterday I took a long-overdue trip into B0ston for a stroll down Newbury St. In the 80′s I had great apartment on the corner of Newbury and Dartmouth so I was feeling nostalgic for the old neighborhood. Shopping was on the agenda and now I’m the happy owner of two pairs of John [...] If you have a fashionable friend who is going through medical treatment, these pretty band-aids from Cynthia Rowley offer some supportive bling. According to the NY Times: Cynthia Rowley has been busy jazzing up one unseemly necessity after another. Now comes something everyone could use: 14 fashion-friendly Band-Aid designs, created [...] Simplcity Patterns Magazine 1972 Click! I have to give credit to Pattern Junkie (my current must-read daily blog!) for this tip; she found a vintage pattern that had a note on the tissue. Basically, when cutting a pattern piece that lays out on a fold, leave a margin on the fold line for easier pinning. Click! Click! This is Abby’s (the purple paisley version belong to her sister Emma.) They just got back from and end of school year pool party and the wraps worked out well. This is a silk from Gorgeous Fabrics. As a skirt is also looks nice tied to the side. |
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