fraulein
  • Blog
  • Stuff I Like

Vintage sewing patterns

14/3/2012

0 Comments

 
I'm such a picky shopper; this is one reason why I don't shop much and another reason to sew more.  Here are some vintage patterns that I have my eye on:
Picture
Advance 4331.  A bathrobe for warmer weather.  I particularly like the one with the scalloped edge.

Picture
McCall 3416.  An elegant bathrobe/housedress for drinking tea and doing one's hair.

Picture
McCall 8973.  I think I would get a lot of wear out of this one.  And clearly I like fitted bodices and full skirts, it's kind of my thing.

Picture
McCall 4263.  For work.

Picture
Vogue 5767.  I already bought this pattern and have some fabric which might be appropriate (although perhaps a little bright; I'm thinking that an intense blue might not suit a 40's shirtdress.  We'll see.)  I'm planning on making the short-sleeved version with no front pocket.

In addition to sewing vintage frocks, my other plans for this year include improving my pastry skills (making pastry is not one of my strengths, but since I seem to be eating more pastry these days, I might as well make my own).  So far I've shied away from trying my hand at puff pastry, but with Michel Roux's help (a 3 star Michelin chef who wrote a book simply titled "Pastry"), I feel confident that I can, at least somewhat successfully, create rum babas with chantilly cream, apple turnovers, and proper croissants.  I'd like to cycle to Port Ludlow in April, taking a detour to La Connor to see the tulips in bloom.  I'd like to go to England in the fall.  I'd like to write up patterns to post on this website.  I'd like to start learning Spanish.  And I'd like to find a new poker group (our former poker group sadly dissolved when half our members moved away).  But a 1940s shirtdress for the summer would be a good start.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    About

    Mary.  Vancouver.  Cooking, knitting, sewing and other stitchery.  Potatoes.  Wine.  Crafternoons, hiking, travel, pub knitting.  Obsessions.  And more food. 

    Archives

    May 2014
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    January 2013
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011

    Categories

    All
    Books
    Food
    Home
    Knitting
    Life
    Outdoors
    Recipes
    Seattle
    Sewing
    Travel
    Vancouver
    Wardrobe

    RSS Feed


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.