1960’s – Page 3 – Sewing With Grandma

And Baby Makes Three? No, It Makes Me Make A Shirt

Posted on March 23, 2023April 3, 2023 by Coco B

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,…

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Finally Finished, The Three Piece Outfit

Posted on March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 by Coco B

If you’ve been following along you’ll know that I’ve previously made the shirt and jacket from this pattern. It was time to finish up and make the skirt. I made the skirt out of the same fabric as the jacket, for a matching look. So here it goes! The skirt seemed easy enough. It had…

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Second Part of a Three Piece Sew: The Jacket

Posted on March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 by Coco B

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…

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A Three Part Sew For Me! First, A Shirt

Posted on February 23, 2023February 24, 2023 by Coco B

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…

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The Dress Picks It’s Person

Posted on February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 by Coco B

Mia wanted a new dress and picked out this pattern for it. She decided to go with View 1. This particular pattern is from 1966. Mia had a few different fabric options to choose from. She decided to go with this blue and green floral, which just happens to be a vintage sheet! I got…

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Checkmate

Posted on December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 by Coco B

My nephew Noah had a chess tournament coming up. I thought it would be fun for him to have a chess themed shirt for the occasion. Noah loves chess, and he’s good at it! Me, not so much! HA! I looked through my patterns and found this boys shirt pattern from 1963. I got this…

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Mia Tyler Moore

Posted on September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 by Coco B

Mia was once again in need of some new things to wear to work, and to just enjoy. So instead of moving through my patterns I skipped around and found this pattern from 1969 that she liked. She liked View 2 so I got to work making sure all of the pieces for this dress…

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Using Up The Scrap

Posted on July 14, 2022July 14, 2022 by Coco B

Moving along through my patterns, I decided that I wanted another fun dress for summertime. I chose this pattern from 1969. I decided to go with view 1, since I do love buttons and have so many of them! I decided to have some fun with the pattern and make it out of two fabrics….

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Everyone Needs Pockets

Posted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 by Coco B

Well guess who has been slacking when it comes to sewing, you’re right, it’s me! Of course I have a project always going, but lately with the heat of summer, and the lazy days of summer vacation, I haven’t been motivated. We were going on a quick vacation and I needed a simple project, and…

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The “Mayor’s Wife” Dress

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Coco B

Once upon a time, Michael was the mayor of our little home town. He served as mayor for six years. During his time as mayor, he got a lot accomplished! He is to this day still the record holder for winning by the largest margin in our city’s history, and is one of the most…

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