With “Me Made May” upon me, and May the 4th rapidly approaching, I decided to quickly make a Star Wars themed shirt. I chose this pattern from the 1960’s, and decided to make view B. I thought it would be fun to make a “V” neck shirt. I haven’t done it very often. I picked…
Category: 1960’s
Put That In Your Piping
I decided it was time for a new dress for myself. With warmer weather rapidly approaching I figured I could add a new spring/summer dress into rotation. I chose this pattern from 1968, and this “dress form” fabric from my stash. The pattern seemed easy enough. I opened this vintage pattern to find it had…
And Baby Makes Three? No, It Makes Me Make A Shirt
Someone’s having a baby? YES! My cousins Russell and Marisa announced at Thanksgiving that they were expecting! It was the most wonderful news we had all gotten in a while. I immediately thought of all of the vintage maternity patterns I have in my collection. I sent contenders to Marisa and she chose this one,…
Second Part of a Three Piece Sew: The Jacket
It was onto the second part of this three piece outfit, the jacket. I could do either the jacket or the “cardigan” view, but decided on the jacket. it had pocket welts and seemed more of a challenge. I figure if nothing else it would be good practice. I had this leftover black synthetic linen…
A Three Part Sew For Me! First, A Shirt
I’m always overthinking my blog. In my recent bout of overthinking, I had this pattern coming up. I decided that instead of zipping though things, and making only one piece of an outfit, that I would make all three pieces. I had bought this pattern with myself in mind, so that’s who I was going…