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Victorian Nightie Victorious!
The Victorian nightie project has had a big win. (See the first post on this odyssey here and then last week’s here.) The pink floral wearable toile got trimmed up and finished off, and Teen wore it last night and gave it the big thumbs up! She’s still wearing it now, and says she likes…
Read MoreThe Victorian Nightie with Issues
Last week’s Victorian Nightie project started strong: we found a pattern in a book, ordered some cotton lawn, and I enlarged the pattern from the grid in the book. The cotton lawn still hasn’t arrived yet, as it didn’t get dispatched until the end of the week, blowing away plans for weekend sewing. So instead…
Read MoreMaking a Victorian Nightie – But Can I do it Zero Waste?
Teen has requested a Victorian nightie, with all the trimmings. We happen to live in a Victorian-era house, so she’ll fit in nicely with the architecture 🙂 Of course, a new project involves much fun planning: choosing fabric and trims, creating a Pinterest board, and looking through my not insignificant collection of books and patterns.…
Read MoreTrialing the Stoppax Hemstitching Fork
The Stoppax hemstitching fork is a vintage sewing tool that Mr H chanced to see at our secondhand shop. It was $10 which he thought was a rip off for a strip of metal, so he passed on it. When he got home he looked it up on Ebay, then went back and bought it!…
Read MoreThe Second Dress: Mission Complete
I’ve been making a dress which was started by someone else circa 1970-1973. It was given to me in a collection of fabric, nine years ago. The dress consisted of a basted-together skirt and some scraps to cut a bodice. I started on it last week.… ….and have now put together the pieces. Funnily, when…
Read MoreThe Second Dress
I’ve been finishing two dresses from the 1960s (or 70s?), given to me in a collection of fabric. Last week I finished off the black and white sundress, and can report that it’s been worn by my teen with success. Attention has now turned to the second dress, consisting of a basted-together skirt and a…
Read MoreThe Black and White Dress, Finished 55 Years Later
I’m part-way through finishing off two dresses from the 1970s (or 1960s?). These two partly-made dresses came in a collection of fabric given to me nine years ago. Going for a quick win early on, as you do, I worked on the black and white dress first. It was already mostly sewn, just in two…
Read MoreTwo Dresses From the 1970s (or 1960s?)
Nine years ago, I was given a collection of fabric from the late 1950s-early 1970s, which had belonged to a friend’s mum. You can read about this interesting collection HERE. Most of the fabric I kept from this collection has been used now, but there were two partly-sewn dresses which I came across the other…
Read MoreA Tale of Two Oodies
The Backstory: My youngest teen was tidying her clothes and going through them. She owns two oodies – they’re square shaped oversized tops with long sleeves, hood and pockets. One wears them at home, sort of like a dressing gown. They’re both very soft polar fleece with a shaggy lining. She doesn’t really wear them…
Read MoreDream Jumpsuit Progress Update
Last week I embarked on a project to re-create a jumpsuit that I saw once in my teens. Since then I’ve cut out a jumpsuit and run it up on the machine. It wasn’t without problems – I made the crotch 10cm too high and nearly cut myself in half trying it on. Otherwise things…
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