Vintage Sewing Patterns

I'm feeling pretty knackered. Long gone are my lovely Saturday morning lie ins instead we need to be be up dressed and out of the house by 9am ready for Lil man's football club. Its an hour and a half if me sitting and him playing football and he really loves it. I on the other hand have to sit and make awkward conversation with the other parents. I might take some knitting next time but the amount of balls flying around means that might be a bit risky if I;m not paying attention.

 However today after football my mum and dad came to pick us up and suggested we attend a vintage fair in Nantwich. As far as vintage fairs go it was pretty naff, lots of overpriced tat and some handmade items. There was however a stall selling vintage sewing patterns for a pound each [which surprised me considering everything else they had was extortionate!] Sadly for me they only had two in my bust size. well one really the other is an inch smaller but I'm hoping it will still fit me!

One is butterick 3598 and the other is vogue 6807. I picked them out becuase they fit my bust size but it wasn't until I was sat in chatwins eating my brownie that I realised they are basically the same pattern. Luckily they do have some different features each and at £1 each its not like I've been ripped off!

Lets take a moment to appreciate how beautiful the pattern artwork is!

They are single size patterns and both are already cut so no faffing about for me!

The details are the best part though, the butterick pattern had a name and some other writing on the envelope. Its kind of weird to think that someone sewed this pattern before it came into my possession. I like the history of it and you could tell the pattern was well cared for. 

I was even more surprised when I found a piece of fabric already pinned and cut on one piece. It feels like a synthetic type fabric and I'm not really sure what to do with it? I might save it for a scrappy patchwork project? 

I also have a surprise in the vogue envelope. This pattern is slightly older and its pattern pieces have no writing on only cut out circles. But it also had a more modern simplicity collar piece in. So either someone lost the original pattern piece, or they mixed them up or they enjoyed a good pattern hack as much as I do!

In other news:

Me made May is going well, keep an eye out for my round up of the first week!

My new battery for my handheld shutter on my camera hasn't arrived yet. Apparently its a very particular size and we've had to order it online. I've actually got 4 new things sewn up I just don;t have a way of getting decent pictures. I have my fingers crossed for it arriving on Monday!

Much Love

Frankie 

xxx

 

Carboot Haul

Okay so every month our local Tesco hosts a carboot on its back car park. And well if there is one thing I love its a carboot. Anyways I went last month and happened upon some ladies selling a few lengths of fabric for 50p per piece and after chatting to them for a bit one of them said to come back this month because she had some more. 

Well naturally I spent the whole month looking forward to going back and seeing what she had! So I found their car , picked up any of the fabric I had left last time and went to pay and one of the ladies got a HUGE bag of stuff out of the car for me and gave it too me as a gift! I mean OMG! I nearly cried, I did make a donation because they were selling for charity but we did have a really nice conversation about sewing and they all said how nice it is to meet someone so young who enjoys making things! [and they told me to go back next month......and to bring the car........]

Anyway here's all the stuff I brought/gave a donation for.

  

Odds and sods of ribbons

Longer lengths of ribbon, I especially like the embroidered ones! 

Buttons!

Hook and eyes and snaps. Fun fact apparently the hook and eyes were by appointment of the queen mum!

Slinky blue stuff, possibly good for a dress/top?

Animal print!

Paisley print, I have a vague idea some some sort of princess seamed lace up back dress?

Some sort of drapey woven stuff? I'm going to make a shirtdress of sorts.

Fairy print!

Mesh!

A floral hippy style cotton, I absolutely love this it might be my favourite thing!

Flower print cord? I love this, but I think there only enough for a bag.

Plaid crepe, absolutely no idea what to make from this.

Black and white cotton strip, hopefully with some clever cutting I can make a sundress from this.

small amount of shirting.

A really really fine cotton. Its so beautiful that I'm tempted to just hemp it and make a vintage style scarf. 

Pale pink cotton.

Pale pinks and purples floral [looks vintage] Its quite fine so I think it would need lining but I love the idea of making a dress from this. But I'm not sure how much wear I;d get out of it because its so far from my comfort zone! I love the idea of PJs is that its too pretty for bed!

Flannel type fabric

Pale pink cotton

silky floral thing, I'm going to make a nude slip type thing from this!

silky purple

lavender floral with jewel embellishments!

Ditsy print, I'm hoping to make a short little dress from this!

Striped waffle fabric, this is destined to be a box pleat skirt!

Upholstery material, I;m keeping this to one side for the next time our dining room chairs need re upholstering [Small child = messy chairs]

Floral viscose, I have a few ideas for this I just need to decide which one I want to do!

Floral cotton , no idea what to make from this!

slinky purple! Top/dress

Plaid , I think this will end up being used for quilting!

This is a grey SHOWERPROOF fabric [I actually discovered this whilst ironing it after pre-washing and the water from my iron spray just kept running off!] Guess who's going to make a coat!  

Slinky green , No ideas!!! 

Floral cotton , nope no idea!

Pale blue polka dot, you guessed it ! Sundress!!!

Heavy cotton, I think I'm going to make a skirt from this, maybe!

Green cotton, I love this but I;m not 100% that greens my colour so I really need to think about what to make from this!

Poly silky thing with monkeys on! This will be used for linings and I might make myself some silky Pjs!!!! 

Biba style print chiffon, Again I'm not sure that the combo of yellow and green will be great for my complexion but I just couldn't leave it!!!

 So yeah the moral of this story is that its always worth checking out carboots!!! 

Much Love

Frankie 

x

Hobbycraft Haul!

It's always suspicious when your Husband says why don't you buy yourself some things from hobbycraft. But as it goes he genuinely just wanted to spoil me..... Or at least I've not found anything broken yet!

Okay so here's what I got!!!

Pins £1.00

I recently read that every time you find a blunt pin you should bin it and well lets just say my pin tray as been dwindling! 

A Hemline Sewing Gauge - £2.00

Okay so confession time, I eyeball my hems. I never measure them and I never iron them. Its a terrible habit but I think it stems from having the most tedious textiles lesson where all we did was measure and press our hems.....for about an hour and a half! But hopefully this little tool will help me to be more precise! 

Tailors Chalk - £2.00

My last lot of tailors chalk was from a market stall and it was quite frankly awful! It didn't transfer onto fabric and nearly put me off chalk for life! Hopefully these will be a lot better! 

Value Dressmaking Scissors - £1.50

Its a good job my fellas good looking because he cannot grasp that some pairs of scissors are only for cutting fabric! So I generally only buy cheap scissors and these value ones are some of my favourites! I mean their not the best in the world but until I've got him fully trained they do quite nicely!

Hayfield Bonus Chunky in Sandstorm - £2.30 per ball - 5 balls

This is for another wool and the gang double trouble jumper. I knew I wanted a pale colour but I love that this has little flecks of black and copper in it too!

Jelly Roll - £12.00

I've never had a jelly roll before so I was pretty intrigued and so far all I can say is that its smaller than I thought? I'm hoping to make a quilt using this [and some stash fabrics too!] for our living room. My idea is to have a handmade quilt in every room of the house and these are the colours I want in the living room.  

Caron Cake -  Funfetti - £10.00

I first saw these on the stand at the CHSI stitches stand they said they were huge in America and that they think they are going to be huge over here too! Now its hard not to be biased because they also gave me a cake whilst I was chatting to them but I can confirm that its super squishy and that the colours are very vibrant! Now I just need to see how it knits up! 

And that's it! I can't wait to start making things! 

and if you've used any of these products please let me know! 

Much Love

Frankie

xxx