... inclement weather forces me inside, I start looking through my vintage goodies for project inspiration.Today I'm showing my collection of vintage sewing patterns. Although most of mine are skirts and dresses ... some are just wonderful vintage eye-candy. :-) Looking for vintage sewing patterns to add to your collection? Be sure to check out these websites... Mom's ...

I am always inspired by Pleasant View School House, particularly the sewing projects. Anna really makes the most amazing dresses from vintage patterns I am constantly ... and it was turned into the nursery, but still. So when I saw this skirt and this skirt again.... I knew I really had to start sewing again. They are from the same pattern McCalls 5430. I love me a wrap skirt and since I recently ...

Well the bag lead to some inspiration to keep sewing. Do you get like that? Start one sewing project and then that snowballs into more so sewing becomes the obsessive activity for a while before something else catches your attention and you switch to that. In the photo there are a couple of fabric baskets made using Pink ...

Tuesday 17th November at the RAG RESCUE website I love browsing through vintage sewing books when I have time. These books are very inspirational. I think my favourites are the 'Fashion bead embroidery' book and the 'DMC drawn thread' book. The latter book could be used as cross stitch patterns as well as drawn thread work.

... : "Seams to Me: 24 Reasons to Love Sewing." For sheer inspiration Denyse Schmidt is a great resource -- ... -chic quilting fabrics. If you have the urge to throw some actual quilting into your sewing mix, try making this sleek quilted bag with some ... a few sources to get you exploring the crossover world of quilting and sewing. Amber Eden is the former editor-in-chief of Threads magazine and ...

... , we would have stayed home, bought her DVD online and then let 10-20 of our sewing friends watch it for free when we were done with it. Hahaha. But anyway, we did learn a few important things, notably 1 ... any old chicken. Ok, this 2/3 inspiration and 1/3 tutorial. Partly because you...A few finished sewing projects I have been working on a few things this week:...Official (OK, not really) Junie ...