70's Bucilla Creative Needlecraft Home Sweet Home Crewel Embroidery Kit Design
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Frog and fish costume from Weldon’s Sewing Pattern magazine’s Fancy Dress For Children. 🐸🐟
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If anyone is having difficulty thinking up a costume for Halloween.
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"It is a very good height indeed!"
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My latest piece is a jumper from a 1970 McCalls pattern made out of two thrifted tablecloths and a flannelette bed sheet that begged to have some Wes Anderson bullshit pulled with it. Vlog coming in hot!
[Photo ID: Photo 1: In a grass path surrounded by greenery, Grace, a young woman with shoulder length red hair in two ponytails gazes out with her hand shielding her eyes from the sun. She wears a gold beret, a yellow, green and orange jumper dress, a poofy sleeved white shirt and brown shoes.
Photo 2: In the same outfit, Grace Poses stiffly in front of the red door of a stone light house. She looks up and to the right.
Photo 3: In the same location and outfit, Grace swings her arms and gives a jaunty kick. She grins at us. End ID]
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A Fairy Princess Dress: Vogue 1931
This re-issued pattern from 1957 will make you wish you had a ball to attend. It has an enormous skirt, which really needs a stiff petticoat to make the most of it, and comes with two strapless bodice options. One, has decorative lacing down the front and is attached to the skirt. The other one, the fairy princess one, has a separate “overbodice” as they call it, which goes over the dress and which has a pleated frill added along the top edge, a draped apron below (although they call it a pannier,” French for basket) and then a great, big bow at the back which closes with 10 buttons.
The late 1950s was the era of the hour-glass silhouette, and while romantic looks in evening dresses had been popular since the late 1940s, and was clearly the selling point here, notice how spare the grey version was, a sign of change to come. The dress requires over 10 yards of fabric at 60″ wide for the dress itself (it is mostly the skirt) and the additional overbodice takes up around 3 yards.
Quite something. In fact, I am pretty sure you can’t even put it on by yourself in the bowed version. As to the making, remember that strapless dresses are built from the waist upwards. The boning which is inserted within the lining is what defies gravity for you, and you should definitely muslin the bodice to make sure it fits nicely. I don’t see any indication in the description, but most strapless dresses also benefit from an inner belt which helps hold the shape of the dress in and up as well.
The fabrics recommended are ones to make you sigh: silk organdie, taffeta, moire, faille, chiffon and crepe, as well as barathea which is a silk/cotton birds-eye weave with one fabric as the warp and one as the weft. No, I have never seen one either. Notice some are crispy, and some very soft and drapey, so first decide how big you want to appear and whether you want to add that petticoat. and then pick your fabric. If you compare the width of the skirts in the illustrations v. those in the line drawings and you see what a petticoat would do.
You can find it at your local fabric store or here online: https://somethingdelightful.com/vogue-patterns/v1931
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ok so recently i was looking at the dior spring couture 2021 collection and i noticed that this dress looked... oddly familiar
it bothered me for months because i knew id seen this dress before, i just didn't know where.
until i was looking through some vintage sewing pattern boards on pinterest and found this late 40s - early 50s vogue pattern
notice the dark green dress. did the designer from dior take inspiration from it? even the way the model is posed looks similar.
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Found some pictures of some of my old sewing projects.
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Summer Sale - Buy 2 Get 1 FREE through 6/6/23.
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1980 DMC Pastel Embroidery Kit
From the August, 1980 Family Circle Great Ideas Magazine
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Current WIP
OKAY so this is really just one of manyyyyyy sewing WIPs, but its the one I am currently most excited about!
I am making this dress:
And this is what my version looks like so far:
Its a pin whale baby pink corduroy from Merchant & Mills, and I wanted something a lil more fun so I am sewing on mini cherry appliques. lol don't ask me how long it will take because IDK!
This version was heavily inspired by Buried Diamond! http://www.burieddiamond.com/blog/tag/corduroy+dress
I even added a waist band piece to make mine more like hers!
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Nice blouse pattern with a cute, if not 30s levels of in your face, bow detail. Shawl collars are nice too.
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