Remember the dress I made for the Vintage Vogue competition?
The deadline was today, so yesterday after work Paul and I rushed out to take some pictures. This is the one that I sent off to accompany my entry.
Tag Archive 'vintage'
Young Designer - Mary Quant
Posted in inspiration, sewing, shopping on Jul 29th, 2010
During the 1960s, the big pattern companies enlisted the help of the hottest young designers to bring the latest fashions to their catalogues. This is Butterick 5912, designed by Mary Quant, whose patterns were licensed by Butterick well into the 1970s. I have a sneaking suspicion that this design is about as old as me.
I’ve [...]
I think this is going to be my entry to the Vintage Vogue competition. I’m not 100% certain whether it’s finished, or whether the seams go on the inside or the outside. I’m going to wear it and live with it for a bit before I decide. I also need to take lots of photos, which [...]
Vintage treasures.
Posted in inspiration, shopping on Jul 19th, 2009
Over the years I’ve collected and been given quite a few vintage clothing patterns - most of them from the 1950s. Unfortunately most of them were too small for me to actually sew and wear, and although I have an abiding love of 1950s clothing, I’m really not a 1950s shape.
It’s taken me a long [...]
This is the second dress I’ve made for Diane, using recycled 1970s print bedding. (The first one is here.) This one’s a very pretty, girly design with plenty of hearts and flowers. It’s made from half of a duvet cover, and Diane’s kept the other half to turn into a quilt.
If you’d like to order [...]
This is Folkwear 117, the Croatian Shirt.
I bought the pattern intending to make it in the dress length, but I didn’t have anything like enough of this cotton lawn, so I made a rather short shirt instead. I started this project about eight months ago, and then it was put to one side while I [...]
I made this for Dott, the proud owner of a matching corset!
It’s made from a vintage duvet cover, except for the stripy bits which are new.
I have a moderately-sized stash of vintage children’s duvet covers and curtains, so I’ll be making a few more of these.
Gingham dress and a price list.
Posted in sewing on Mar 24th, 2009
This is the second incarnation of my new dress pattern - this time in a black and white polycotton gingham. This one’s a bit longer than the first one, and trimmed with black broderie anglais/eyelet.
I’ve now worked out my pricing structure, and it looks like this:
Reclaimed/recycled fabric: £90
Hand dyed organic cotton: £120
Novelty print quilting cottons: [...]
Terracotta Dress
Posted in sewing on Mar 13th, 2009
This is what’s been keeping me busy this week - designing, drafting and making a new dress.
Once I’ve sorted out a pricing structure and a size chart and some other information, I’ll be putting this up for sale, and taking orders.
(Assuming that anybody else thinks it’s a nice dress, and that the credit crunch hasn’t [...]
Yesterday I finished off a dress that’s been almost done for far too long.
It was mostly already finished. I just had to add the waistband, sew the top and bottom halves together, and add elastic and binding. Ta daa.
I have a sneaky suspicion it’s going to be too long in the bodice for me, and [...]