On Thursday, I started to work on Vogue 9996, view A. I realized that I was missing 6 of the pattern pieces (the entire top and 1 leg facing), and set about redrafting them from a scan of the pattern layout.
On Saturday, I had just sewn the very last piece.
Backwards.
Although I had already clipped the [...]
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Tue, March 2 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, sewing » 9 Comments
When I left you on Thursday, I was drafting the missing pieces of Vogue 9996 by scanning the pattern layout and scaling up based on the dimensions of the pieces I had. Imperfect, but easier than drafting from scratch! Everything went well with that, and here are a few notes as I near completion of [...]
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Sat, February 27 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, sewing » 1 Comment
I bought Vogue 9996 in, I believe, 2008, the day that my friend Megan and I picked through a small basket of vintage patterns at an antiques mall about halfway to Wyoming.
Last month, I finally bought the fabric and notions necessary to make it. A plaid? Why did I choose a notoriously-difficult-to-line-up plaid? Oh, well. [...]
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Thu, February 25 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, Viva Las Vegas, collections, fashion, sewing » 1 Comment
Dice bracelets. I originally made them just for my own use, but someone said I should sell them, and so I started adding them to my Etsy shop in early ’08. I wound up bringing a pound or two of them with me to VLV10 for my gal-pals and I to mix and match with [...]
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Sun, February 21 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, Viva Las Vegas, fashion, jewelry, pet peeves » 1 Comment
I bought a pair of vintage (1950s) frames from another vendor on Etsy a few months back, and recently set about having them filled with my own Rx. I’ve done this before locally, but this time around no lab wanted to take the risk. I called perhaps a dozen places in various price ranges, and [...]
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Sat, February 20 2010 » Vintage & Retro Style, fashion, shopping » 4 Comments