Got 18 retro patterns

 I joined a while ago a group on facebook called sewing with cats. Mostly it's cute photos of cats hanging out with sewing projects or interfering.  

In late April at the beginning of the pneumonia someone in that group was gifted with a large lot of vintage patterns and giving away those she didn't want. I was greedy and got 18 patterns. Two for children, the rest all for 'young women' including a few 'junior teens'.  Since the shipping came out to $21.50 US I made sure to reinburse her. But 18 vintage patterns for 25 CAD is an amazing find. Moreso as most patterns are my size. 

Some dresses I made for Mado in 2020

 These are most of the dresses I made for Mado in 2020. All except the purple dinosaur dress, was made with fabric left over from making myself clothes.

Baby blue knit/cotton dress - Burda 9341

Blue knit/cotton dress - Burda 9341

Turquoise Dragonfly print - McCalls M6878

Made with a colourful cotton batik with Burda 9375

Cotton plaid dress - McCalls M6982

Dinosaur dress with fabric ordered from India - made with Simplicity 2377

So excited to have a grandchild coming

Despite the fact I have tons of babies patterns I don't have any to make cute summer onesies or diaper shirts.  Those are so practical.

So I've been hunting down patterns. So far I want to pick up this for sleepwear for the baby. Then I ran into this pattern and was drooling....

Then there is this Jalie pattern just for what I'm looking for...

Would you believe Jalie have a pattern for making socks????

Projects in the works.

All these garments are cut out and waiting to be sewn.

Two full bins of cut fabric and the pattern envelope with instructions.

I picked up these bins at Canadian Tire, for half their normal price. They are perfect for putting patterns, and fabric.

Dresses finished this week-end

I made a sort sleeved dress from this McCalls pattern with this rayon

McCalls M6754 with a rayon digital print

This pattern I picked up for $1 at value village I modified and made a 2 toned dress

2 fabric stretch cotton dress with Butterick B5313

Jungle Print dress

My latest sewing creation is a  knit dress, made with a cotton-Lycra jungle print, using New Look 6121. Love the print, love the feel of the print, and love the dress, so comfortable. 

A simple knit dress and head band

McCalls M6074

Knit dress and headband

Trial run for dress with 4 different fabrics

McCalls M6504 - with 2 fabrics

Trial run with 2 fabrics

Little jean type skirt

Burda 8344

At PowWow wearing skirt July 13th, 2014

New Dresses I made.

Burda 7224 & fabric from Fabricland in Ottawa

Finally finished buttonholes and putting in buttons

Butterick B5317

It's got mistakes but it was just a trial run.

New dress from today.

$5 Coupon bought at Value Village.

Love the way the dress turned out and the hibiscus print.

New dresses

Pattern picked up at Value Village for $1

Crinkled stretched knit dress

Green cotton fabric

Dress with green cotton fabric.

Finally finished the dress

This dress took me forever to finish because the neckline was bunching up    The over-stitching I had used to tryto resolve the issue made it worse. So I removed it and in the end decided to use fabric glue to resolve the issue.

If I re-use this pattern I'll make it 2 sizes smaller. With the stretch in the knit it would have fit much better.

I do love the "Morticia" sleeves on this dress

Unexpected purchase

So went to Village des Valeurs with my friend and her son yesterday and managed to pick up 1.5 M of a nice hibiscus stretch knit print, for $4.99 and a few patterns for 99cents. While they were already cut, all the pieces were still there. One pattern was even for a costume. 

Will be making a dress out of this hibiscus print. How can you go wrong with a  $5 piece of fabric?

Other then that, I had  a date yesterday, from someone I met on POF.  Not usually the type I go for, but so far so good. Lunch went really well, and spent 5 hours texting last night.  Maybe I have found a companion for camping this summer.    He enjoys canoe camping and we share many interests. He even has ADD and has nicknamed me Big Bang Theory Girl. 

Memory lane

I picked up this pattern on Monday because it reminds me of the dresses my mom and I wore in the late 60's. I remember having a green dress like item D,  for my great grand parents 50th wedding anniversary, in the summer of 1968. My dress was made originally from one of my mom's dresses. She had it for one or two years and then my grandma took it apart and made it for a little girl.  My mom and grandma often resized my mom's dresses to fit me after a season or two.  I always had unique dresses to wear to special occasions.

I used to recycle clothes when my daughters were little. My parents and aunt would give me the clothes they no longer wanted, and I'd cut it and make clothes for my daughters.  I remember in particular a dress I made with one of my dad's plaid shirts. It looked so cute.

Slowly starting to make dresses.

So far I've got 5 patterns for dresses cut out.  It's progress. Before I had 10-12 fabrics with as many patterns and I could not decide what I wanted to make with any of the fabric.

A dress from my past

 When digging in my sewing stuff I found a dress that I had made and then unsewn seams to make adjustments.   I did make some today. Dress fits ok. I intend to make other dresses after modifying this pattern a little bit more.  I had just shortened this dress.

Butterick 6639 from 1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

I seem to have an endless amount of old vintage Patterns.

I found another batch of patterns that belonged to my mom. There are more from the late 80's and early 90's but way too many of them. Most of my own collection starts from the late 80's.

Simplicity 6274 from 1965

Simplicity 7816 from 1986

Found some more vintage patterns.

I suspect this was part of my mom's old stash of patterns.  I found probably 10 or 12 patterns from the 1940's to the 1980s.

Simplicity 4740 from 1943

Simplicity 2382 from 1948

Butterick 6137 from 1950's

Butterick 3049 from 1950's

Simplicity 7912 from 1977

Style 2435 from 1978

Vogue 8209 from 1982

Vogue 7806 from 1983

VOgue 8449 from 1983

Vogue 7294 from 1985

VOgue 9292 from 1985

Vogue 8971 from 1985