Well, as much as I hate this kind of thing, tomorrow I will be spending the day working in my sewing room. I brought home a bunch of Corona boxes this weekend to start putting stuff in. My aunt and uncle will be staying in the room this weekend for my son's going away party, so I have to get everything put away for them to sleep in there. So, it's time to get organized and tomorrow is the day. I will be scanning pattern packages and saving them on my computer.
I started scanning patterns as I bought them, but now I think it is time to start doing all of them and tomorrow is as good as day as any. I will scan the pattern on the front and the back, save under the pattern number and then save to a file in categories such as dresses, pants, skirts, etc. Looking forward to the finished product. I will try to take a before, during and after photo to post with this.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Corona 18 Pack -- Free Pattern Storage
Well, I have some pretty good news. I found the perfect shaped boxes for storing patterns. The Corona Longneck 18 pack. I was using business file boxes. What a mess! The patterns slid all over the place, not to mention being a waste of space. What I've decided to do with patterns that don't back into the pattern envelope, a file folder can be trimmed down to the width of the box. There isn't any room for the patterns to slide around and mix with each other. This has proven to be an awesome idea. I am excited to transfer the patterns into the new boxes. I will post pictures.
Monday, March 4, 2013
1960s Dresses - I Want to Be That Girl!
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| Butterick 4872 I like View A |
It's true I went through a phase of loving the 50s dresses and even sewing a few. Well, funny thing is, when I lost the 40+ pounds I did this year, my tastes are changing--again. I really like those "mod" That Girl styles! I was watching on Friday, she had the cutest little A-line dress on. Bold geometrics, and solids. Then when she put on a matching sleeveless dress coat, it was perfect! So I spent some time this weekend looking at patterns and ideas from the early to mid sixties. I found some patterns in my own stash that were obviously either my mother's or grandmothers. Here are a few I found online that I will just have to find and put together. The pieces look so easy to put together in a day. I think when regular women sewed regular clothes, there were more patterns that could be put together in a weekend or even a day.
What It Costs To Be That Girl in 2013
One thing I am discovering, however, is some of these patterns--for some reason--are going to $15 and higher. The Butterick 4702 pattern is going for $16.99 on eBay. The Butterick 4872 is going for $10.00 on Etsy. I haven't taken the time to see if they are actually getting $16.99 and $10.00 for their dried up 50 year-old patterns, but I will say this, some of these are rare in uncut condition. The other thing is the ones that are there are relatively small. Like 30 and 32 bust. That's just a little more than my waist, so these are tiny patterns. I supposed the right seamstress could alter the pattern to fit the size 16 and 18 customer, but having done that many times for other folks of unusual proportions, it is not fun and definitely became a labor of love that I knew I would never be compensated for.
Most of the dresses take about half the material as the 50s dresses I was so obsessed with last year. I see most dresses taking 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 yard while the full skirted dresses from the 1950s sometimes called for over seven yards. If I was lucky enough to find material for $5 to $7 dollars at WalMart or online, the dress was still going to get expensive for a novelty dress like a 1950s evening gown. I'm looking this week for a dress to wear to my son's going away party the end of this month, so I will post some selections as the weeks go by--if I decide I even have time to sew a dress.
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