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witness2fashion.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Sometimes a new fashion takes off and becomes dominant. Sometimes not! While browsing through a fashion and pattern magazine from 1893, I learned something new -- which may interest vintage clothing collectors. This is a typical style from 1893: The huge sleeves and very tiny waists that are associated with the mid-eighteen nineties were already... | |
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thedreamstress.com
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| | | | | Do you ever have days where you have a plan for the day, and you totally throw it out the window because you need to make something and have it done NOW? Saturday was exactly that kind of day for me. In the morning I volunteered at Fabric-a-Brac and bought lots of gorgeous goodies (I shared some of them on Facebook, and will be showing you a project made with something else I got on Wednesday). I was supposed to spend the afternoon working on a dress that I'm planning to wear to a wedding I'm going to next weekend. When I began to work on the dress and tried to iron the fabric I was just so disgusted with my ironing board cover that I couldn't deal with it anymore. I whipped out some heavy white cotton fabric I'd bought less than two hours before, pulled out some wool batting from Made on Marion, and some purple lingerie elastic I'd got in a Wellington Sewing Bloggers swap (purple isn't a colour I like for ... | |
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blog.cyberdaze.org
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| | | | | Recently I have been considering the layering conundrum. The UK is having a cooler summer than we've had for the last few years, meaning that some sort of lightweight top layer is often required. And I have never got on with either cardigans or shawls. But back in covid lockdown time I made a big... | |
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blog.sewserendipity.com
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| | | I had a great weekend meeting customers and signing books over at Cabbage Rose in Fort Worthon Saturday. Thanks to all of you who came out... | ||
