I can’t turn down a good Challenge!
I have slowly realized that I am not one to make New Year’s Resolutions … in life or in my sewing. Instead, I just blather away about all the things I want to try this year … sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t … sometimes I plan one thing and it ends up being another!
I am finding though, being exposed to so many new things on these wonderful sewing blogs, that there are many, many “Challenges” out there and I am having a difficult time saying “No”. Give me a Challenge and I will sign on!
So that is how I find myself signed up for FOUR Challenges in 2015 – this is going to be so fun! There’s the RTW Fast 2015 and Jungle January and the 2015 Vintage Sewing Pattern Pledge! and the Make A Garment A Month Challenge! I think I can do it all… really! Seriously!
I already roared through the Jungle January Challenge. Yippee! Now I have to conquer the RTW Fast, the MAGAM Challenge (that one might be difficult!) and the Vintage Sewing Pattern Pledge.
I have a few vintage sewing patterns, given to me by my sister, that I could sew up. (Thank you, Rose!) I would like a vintage dress. I would like a few actually. I am unsure though how much time I have this year for sewing up vintage dresses. So give me a hand here … which dress should I sew up first? Let me know and I will start hunting through my fabric stash!
Here’s some more patterns from the 2 boxes my sister gave me …
Now these are not vintage, but they are “retro” patterns. (click on one photo to start)
What do you think … can I pull off all these Challenges? and which vintage dress should I do first? Love to hear from you!
Happy Sewing!
I absolutely love the first pattern – it has a bit of a late 40s vibe, which I love. The current front runner would have been my second choice, though. As you say, it’s a dress where the fabric is the star. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished result!
We shall see which one wins first place… Maybe I will have room for the second place one too? I was browsing Etsy tonight, the vintage sewing patterns are so lovely! This might be another addiction!
I like the Butterick retro pattern. BTW, it really bothers me that something as recent as the 1980s is considered “vintage.” I guess I really am getting old. 🙂
Yes, I thought it would be on the edge of vintage being the 80’s but I looked it up and vintage is 25 years! Hard to believe!
I voted 7238, I’m imagining it for myself in a deep blue a bit shorter 🙂
Hmm… Maybe I should loan it to you afterwards!
I must admit I rarely wear dresses anymore, but if I could lay my hands on some vintage clothes that might change. I love styles from the 1920s, 30s and 40s but that may be going back just a little too far, who knows. Mom always used to say whatever is old is new again.
Can’t wait to see the finished results!
Going back too far is never too far. If I could ONLY find a thrift or second hand store or antique shop that had vintage sewing patterns or supplies, it would be true love! And of course, Mom was right!
Oh my I have 3 large plastic containers with similar patterns!
Where do you get your’s from, usually? On line shops? Or?
Old friends, charity shops and believed or not I started sewing in the early 80!
Haha, I have to say, and maybe it will make you feel younger, I started sewing with school courses, in the mid 70’s! Now silly me, and let this be a lesson to all, I threw out my patterns when I gained weight and when I lost it! Now I can at least try to adjust the pattern with some success and I don’t throw anything out anymore. Someone out there is probably valuing my long lost vintages!
I voted! I remember wearing styles exactly like these lovely patterns – does that make me vintage too? It’s like going to a museum and personally recognising some of the exhibits!
Well I remember these styles too – and those hairdos! – but I prefer something other than “vintage” as a handle… How about “classic”? Anything with “class” in it has got to be great!