MoonMatrix, here's a few resources for unprinted patterns :)
Lady Day has a post on her blog about reading vintage patterns
Threads magazine has a post on working with vintage patterns.
Love your Butterick suit, especially! How wonderful to have found all those patterns!
DPD, I love the...
Hey! I have this one, too! I love the cover. Looks very Arrow Collar Leyendecker.
Lovely pattern, DPD. Love the high neck.
I posted a blog entry on pattern organizing and storage if anyone's interested :)
That two tone one is really cute!
I lost out on vintage Vogue and Harpers Bazaar magazines I was after, but I bought a consolation prize. I want to make up the suit in a nice wool for winter. I love the idea of velvet cuffs and I have some brown cotton velvet I just found in the stash of doom...
I have a big roll of butcher type paper I got from my dad a long time ago. I usually clear off my dining room tape and put one of those cardboard cutting mats on top, then after I ironed out my pieces at a low setting I'll spread them on top of the paper and carefully use a pin at the critical...
So pretty! I love the cut out neckline.
I just won this purse! So excited! These are my favorite kind of little 30s purses and I love the color and the compartments on this one.
Wahine, that's so wonderful! Congrats! Even cooler that it's from family :)
I bought scans on cd of a few years (I think late 30s? Don't remember) on ebay a loooong time ago. I never did get around to figuring them out. Look really neat, though!
I have house slippers.... but they're big fluffy stuffed gray ones that pick up all the sewing threads my projects litter of the floor like a magnet. lol Not nearly as glamorous as Daniel Greens ;)
Hi Barbara!
Kim at NudeeDudee has a 30s style skirt she makes custom.
This gal has =tags&includes[1]=title&page=1"]40s style sweaters, but they look more thin (not so warm). Really cute, though!
There's also some vintage style sweaters here at Rocket Originals, but I think if tucked in to...
Tulip, that dress is gorgeous!
I just won this hat and coat set. I've been wanting one of these with the fur down the front for a while :) I love the pleating at the back and the wide lapels.
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