I made a dress!

I've just completed a 3 week dress-making course here where I made this gypsy dress using second-hand fabric I bought a few years ago. I've got the sewing bug now so I'm making the long-sleeved top version of this dress currently out of vintage fabric I got from here where I now work! If you're ever in the area come by and say hi - we have some amazing vintage/antique/interesting curiosities and the stock is always changing :) x

Twin Hearts

A silky top that I've started doing some appliqué on over the last couple of evenings. Tolstoy looking very quizzical over the whole process! Better photos to come! X

New Rosette

 

 

 

I made a new rosette a little while ago out of some lovely grosgrain ribbon I bought at a wonderful haberdashery in St.Leonard's. 

I like the texture clash.

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Outfit: Sun Trap

 

So wonderful to be able to be in the garden all day at the weekends! I like to just sit outside and drink coffee and play with the cat and sometimes do some drawing, so relaxing ahh...

 I made this top a couple of weeks ago out of an old skirt that was unwearable because it had some stains that wouldn't come out. I'll do another post on how I made it, but I'm basically a pretty relaxed seamstress and just made it up as I went along! I might sew some flowers on it sometime to jazz it up a bit! Hope you're all having good weekends! X

2nd Look Vintage Patterns

Just found this amazing etsy site called 2nd Look Vintage which you can download PDF patterns from. I've been hankering for an off-the-shoulder top for a long time and found some wonderful patterns for download here from Lauren's personal collection. Here are some of my favourite designs:

Pattern here

Pattern here

Pattern here

And some fun ones:

Thanks Lauren for sharing your wonderful collection with us all! Now just to decide which pattern to choose! X

Lovely Lace

Some scans of beautiful lace remnants and whole rolls of trimming. (There's a cheeky bit of crochet in there too!) My aunt gave me a big bag of this stuff a while ago and whenever I'm making something I can delve in the bag and find something cute to use, it's really lovely and useful to have. I'm currently cutting out some flower motifs from a big piece of lace to help cover and strengthen weak spots in a pair of 1940s cami-knickers I'm rejuvenating to be sold. Lace is a very useful thing indeed.