Blog Posts

1948 Simplicity dress - making it work!!

6/6/2019

This is what I wore last night on a date with my husband to see "All is True". I think this will be a keeper. It's comfortable, nice but not too fancy and the print will hide stains ... ha ha.

It was pretty easy to sew, but needed some modifications.

p.s. The movie is good. Especially if you are interested in the life of Shakespeare.

So, to start off, I did something I've never done before ... a tissue fitting. That is I pinned the main pattern pieces together and tried it on.

The circumference measurements for this pattern are very close to my measurements, but that's not the only thing to work about. I found out that it was quite long waisted on me.

It is a big time saver to be able to fold out that extra length in the bodice before cutting.

SO! pieces all cut and ready to go.

Need to read through the instructions so I can work on multiple sections at once. My favorite way to work. But, wait!

I seem to be missing a piece ... hmmm. Why can't I find a pocket facing piece?

Side note: Look! no shading to indicate right and wrong side of fabric, just interesting.

That would be because there isn't a pattern piece for a pocket facing, just measurements to cut a rectangle. A modern pattern would have a piece, which I don't think is necessarily clearer. I can become overwhelmed by too many pattern pieces sometimes.

I like this pocket though. You clean finish the side seam where the pocket goes and then slip the one layer pocket behind and topstitch it to the front skirt.

Another comment on the instructions for the facings in this 1948 pattern. No where do they ask you to use any interfacing, which I did, or instruct you to do any trimming/clipping of seams or understitching, which I did.

I made this dress using all modern techniques including serging and machine made buttonholes. It is what I'm used to. It is faster. And, I'm not a reenactor, just sewing for fun.

I need to do some research on when we started using interfacing and understitching though.
AH! next blog. 😊

BUT!!! this is not the story I want to tell today.

Here is the story. I tried on the dress and HATED it! It looked like something my grandmother wore. And this is when grandmothers really looked like old ladies. I think she was about my age ... sigh!

The dress fits well but ... what do I hate about it????

I remember something my aunt Erna told me a while ago. She said she always likes garments to have an "openish" neck. And that is exactly what this needed. The neck on the dress pattern was unattractively too closed.

So I pinned on some white ribbon to experiment with a new neckline and then cut up a craft envelope because it was close to the color of my dress form so I could get a good visual idea of this new neckline.

Then I made a tracing of the pattern without seam allowances. Don't want to ruin a nice 1948 pattern!

Next, laid it over the white ribbon marking the new neckline and traced that.

Checked it on myself to be sure it wasn't so wide my bra straps would show.

Went back to the original pattern to make working front and back facing patterns and to make sure everything fits.

I used these patterns to cut new facings with the little bit of fabric I had left.

I also pinned the facing patterns to the dress to cut my new neckline, after I picked off the bodice from the rest of the dress.

Then, of course, I had to carefully pick off what was left of the facing down the front of the bodice.

Sew it all back together and ...

I am MUCH happier, still something ... the skirt looks too long to me. But, that's an easy fix.

I find it so interesting that now a days, one can really get away with wearing a dress made from a 71 year old pattern with hardly changing it.

In perspective, I graduated from high school in 1971. There is no way we could have worn a dress made from a 1900 pattern then.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic. I find it so interesting.

6 Comments

Vintage Pattern curiosities - 1940s

5/30/2019

1 Comment

Being retired gives me time to go through my stuff. I am trying to organize, reduce and donate. But, when doing this ... you run into interesting things ...

... these two patterns for example. They look fairly similar. They are both from the 1940s, the one on the left from 1945, right at the end of the World War II. You can see fabric rationing is still in effect. The skirt is short and not too full.

The one on the right is from 1948, only a three years difference, but you can see the silhouette has changed. And I would guess it was greatly influence by Dior's New Look which debuted just one year earlier in 1947.

So, I found that really interested. But, then I opened up the envelope and there were more surprises.

First look at the guidesheets for both patterns, which were then called the Simplicity Primer, are very different. The size of each sheet is different, the artwork and the way the information is presented is different, too.

You can see the second guidesheet from 1948 has a simpler, cleaner look, but there is less information.

I should point out that the guidesheet was just that, a single sheet. It was basically an assembly guide. They expected everyone would have a good basic sewing book at their side. They called it a "tool as necessary as your scissors or needle." I think it still is.

The size of the two croquis drawings are different. Although I am very sure the same artist did the work for both patterns.

The small diagrams of the pattern pieces are different. The 1948 patten seems to have a simpler look and less information than the earlier one.

For example, this picture suggesting a paper pattern fitting in the 1945 pattern is missing in the 1948 one.

A BIG change are the seam allowances! In 1945 you were supposed to use 1/2" or 3/4" seams, depending. In 1948 that was averaged out to 5/8" for all the seams. I guess another attempt to make things simpler.

Both patterns expected you to make bound buttonholes, with an option to make "worked" buttonholes after the dress was finished. A worked buttonhole is one completely sewn by hand that would look like a modern machine made buttonhole. Sewing machines couldn't make buttonholes then without a specialized attachment. So, maybe a bound buttonhole was the easier option??

The sewing instructions in 1945 showed the garment on a dress form.

In 1948 the pieces of the garment were drawn on their own, more like what pattern are now.

Also, the actual pattern pieces for the 1948 look similar to current patterns, although they were printed one size at a time, so stitching lines as well as cutting lines could be marked.

The big surprise for me were the pattern pieces in the 1945 pattern.

If you have never seen an "un-printed" pattern before, this is what they looked like. Each piece came cut to the correct shape and grain line, darts, gathers and other stuff was indicated with little holes punched in the tissue.

Little by little pattern companies converted over to printed patterns starting sometime in the 1920s. Each at a different time and in a different way.

The pieces in this 1945 pattern were an odd hybrid. They were precut with hole punched like a traditional unprinted pattern AND had some printing that looks hand stamped.

See how the notches are irregularly cut on the edge with numbers in arrows hand stamped?

And check out how the dart is marked. It's like trying to make out star constellations.

Where as a fully printed pattern can give LOTS of useful information.

These are cool dresses. They remind me of the shirtwaist dress uniforms the nurse-midwives wear in "Call the Midwife." A show a LOVE!. I think I'm going to make the left hand view in the 1948 pattern. It's my size and I've got just the right amount of this fabric. I think (maybe) I will try the bound buttonhole! Might be too much work for 12 buttonholes though.

The great thing about making a vintage pattern. It will never go out of style, because it already is out of style!

1 Comment

The clothes I LOVE ❤️

5/23/2019

2 Comments

I was going through my clothes this week, bringing out my warm weather clothes and I starting thinking about the things I've made that I wear over and over again.

I noticed that the ones I liked best, weren't the fanciest, but did have really, really nice fabric.

I don't always get it right. (I also have a few things that are in a pile ready for the Thrift Store) ... sigh ...

So, I will share my thoughts about why these garments work so well for me. I hope it will help me make better choices in the future.

I can't tell you how many times people have come up to me to comment on this jacket. It is 100% wool, bumpy fabric from Korea I accidentally found on eBay ... a complete fluke.

The fabric is unique, but not flashy. And I made a fairly simple shape. I wrote a couple blogs while making it. It is my "go to" spring and fall jacket.

Here are the blog links.
Dotty Jacket cutting
Dotty Jacket finishing

I live in this tunic dress all summer. It is so comfortable and cool. I made it over 1o years ago with Simplicity 2894.

It is made from Egyptian cotton from Egypt, which is ... ironically ... quite hard to find in Egypt, because they export most of their cotton. But, my son and daughter-in-law lived there for a while and knew of a place that sold hand woven Egyptian cotton. See the close up of how the design is woven in by reversing the contrast thread several time in the one place.

This is actually considered home decor fabric. But, it became a wonderful summer dress that withstands a lot of wear. I do chores inside and out in this.

This is another favorite jacket I garners lots of compliments! I bought the blue wool a long time ago thinking I would make a little shorty jacket, but it never happened and then the jacket I wanted to make didn't suit me anymore. So I went on a quest to find a good fabric to add to it so I could make a more substantial jacket. I travel with this jacket to moderate climates in the winter, but always bring a down vest to wear under just in case. The tapestry is home dec fabric from Joann's. I still see it there. And I used Simplicity 1320.

The first blog I wrote about this project was all about choosing the tapestry fabric. It took some looking until I found what I liked.

And the second blog is how to create a lining, if the pattern you are using doesn't have one.

Tapestry Jacket fabrics
Tapestry Jacket lining

This is favorite nightie I made five years ago from some random fabric I had at home. I wear it over and over. Here is the blog I wrote about it.

Summer nightie

I modified a basic dress pattern to make it.

This is a very special dress. It is made using a hand drawn Batik sarong a friend of mine brought to me from Bali at least 15 years ago. A standard sarong is about 2 meters long and that was JUST enough to make this dress from Simplicity's original Amazing Fit dress #2648.

I wore this dress to the rehearsal diner for my son's wedding nine years ago, but it was already an old dress. It is just so versatile! I have a couple belts that work well with it, add some jewelry and a black shawl ... Voila!

You can see that the design is hand drawn, because at the two ends of the length of fabric, the pattern ran out. I actually think it looks kind of cool how the cloud design tapers to nothing leaving lots of black in the back.

One more ... a top I like to wear when teaching. This was a cool print I found at G-Street Fabrics here in the Washington DC area when they were in their old, old space on Rockville Pike ... sniff! It was such a great store then. I miss it.

Even though it doesn't say Simplicity on it, that is the font they used and the clothes are from the 30's.

So, all of you must have some much loved thing you've made. I would LOVE to see some of your long time favorite garments.

Send pictures to [email protected]

2 Comments

Batik Top - fabric tells me what to do

5/12/2019

7 Comments

Sometimes the fabric tells you what to do. Actually, many of the favorite things I've made have happened like this.

I was given this really interesting piece of batik from Southeast Asia (not sure the exact country). It is two panels like you see in the photo above ... not enough for a dress ... could be a skirt. But, I'm trying to make myself clothing I will ACTUALLY wear.

It seems crazy to put a lot of time and effort on things that are only worn on special occasions. Although there is a time for that, too.

I got a free pattern from StyleArc when I bought the Sydney dress pattern. And I think it will work quite well for this fabric. There are not too many seams. I don't want to break up the print.

It is called the Hayward Tunic.

BUT!!! there is a seam right up the center front. Hmmmmm.
Now I can pin the pattern pieces together to eliminate that seam ...

But, when you do that the fold back facings completely overlap.
This where the fabric starts telling me what to do. First I only have so much fabric. When I pin these two pieces on the fabric it fits perfectly. There is not enough to cut them separately including those extended facings anyway.

My solution was to pin those pieces together and cut the left and right fronts as one piece, cutting away those extended facings (leaving a seam allowance, of course). So the front neck now looks like this.

Then I made separate pattern pieces for the left and right facings. They are a little different because of the asymmetrical pleat.

I placed the seam right were that dart is, thus eliminating it!

See below.

Being short of fabric, I needed to use another fabric for these facings. Again the fabric is forcing my choices ... for the better! I just happened to have just the right amount of black cotton in my stash.

But, as happens some times, things came out a little uneven after being sewn.

No worries ... just lay the paper pattern pieces one and even things up.

To tie things together better, I chose to us the black cotton on the back of the collar and the inside of the collar stand.

The collar on this tunic is just like a man's shirt collar. And, I've made a number of men's shirts having two sons and a husband. But, I can never trust myself to sew the entire thing by machine. I always hand slipstitch the inside of the collar stand.

Then machine stitch to make it look like I did it all by machine.

To keep up the black accents. I cut strips of what was left of that black cotton.

Fold it and add them to the sleeve band.

There really aren’t any instructions for hemming this thing ... just these words at the bottom of the pattern ... ha ha.

So I did what works best for me, which is running a stay stitch on the fold line for the hem and pressing it first.

So I can then do an even rolled hem at the machine.

I think this is a keeper ....

Thanks fabric for telling me what to do!

7 Comments

White Linen Dress - sewing fast!!!

5/9/2019

3 Comments

I am very eager to make this dress. I adore the fabric, a soft washed linen. And I know I will love to wear such a drapey comfortable dress.

The pattern is simple and I really don't need to do any fitting. So, I am going to show you how to organize your sewing to be fast and efficient.

And what you see in the photo above, is all the instructions StyleArc gives. Basically a clear assembly diagram, which I love. And some written instructions for sewing order, but not the kind of instructions you would get from Simplicity.

Link to StyleArc Sydney Dress

To sew quickly, I prepare and stitch as many parts as I can at one sitting reading down the instructions looking for what bits can be sewn first. And then I take everything I've sewn to my ironing board for pressing.
I repeat this and as I work the garment comes together in big chucks.

Because there aren't as many notches in a StyleArc pattern, I keep the pattern pieces near by to be sure I am fitting things together correctly.

I tried several different kinds of interfacing on some scrap fabric and decided a lightweight interfacing on both the facing AND on the main fabric works best.

I will list how I organized my sewing in groups.

Sewing phase #1
Pockets onto front and side front skirt pieces
Sew back skirt to side back skirts
Shoulder seams of bodice front and back
Join front and back neck facing

Finish seams - press

This fabric wiggles all over the place and I needed to use LOTS of pins to control things while sewing. I could have sewn faster with less wiggly fabric.

Sewing phase #2
Sew facing to neck
Sew front skirt to side front skirt (including pockets)
Sew front and back hem band together
Finish sleeve bottom to prepare for hemming

Finish seams - press

I decided to finish all the seams, facing edge and hem edges with just a simple zigzag. Since you can slightly see through this white fabric, a zigzag finish is less likely to show through to the outside.

Sewing Phase #3
Sew front and back skirt together
Clip neck hole seam and then understitch facing seam to help the facing roll to the inside of the neckline better. (left hand photo)

Finish seams - press - also press facing to inside of neck

AND while the sleeve is still open press the hem of the sleeve up for sewing later ... So much easier to do now.

Sewing Phase #4

Pin down facing and topstitch it to bodice. This is a decorative topstitch.
Attach bottom band

Finish seams - press

Final finishing up

Sewing underarm seam
Finish underarm seam
Clip underarm seam
then Hand Whip where the seam was clipped, because clipping creates ew raw edges and this fabric is very loosely woven.

Last thing ... sew skirt to bodice ... DONE
BUT, I'm not so sure about the length of the sleeves. Need to try it on!

YUP! I like it rolled up shorter. So, I have to re-hem the sleeves. So first take out the hem stitching.

That means I have to press out the original creases, too.

A solution of half water and half white vinegar relaxes the fibers and helps get rid of that crease!

Pressing out crease.

Rolling it up 1 1/2"

Sewing a 3" hem now.

And finally tack the sleeve roll at the top just under the fold.

Finished dress on first picture. I will share a photo when I actually wear it ... when it warms up.

I'm going to have several great new garments now having created these blog deadlines for myself!!!

3 Comments

Summer Sewing to SAVE!!

5/2/2019

0 Comments

I want to encourage people to get back to sewing. And the two obstacles/complaints I hear are ... #1 Sewing is expensive and #2 I have trouble fitting my changing body.

So, today I want to show you how I am dealing with these two issues.

Here is my plan to make one dress, two tops, one jacket and some pants.

Step one ... dive into my stash.

Step two ... look for easy fitting, comfortable patterns.

I will write about altering patterns in a future blog.

Well, first I have 5 yards of this very, very nice washed linen. I kept seeing a promotion for it on FaceBook. You are required to buy 5 yards. But when you buy that much it is only about $7 a yard.

I will be selling some of it to my neighbor's daughter, who's taking sewing lessons from me.

If you use FaceBook you can go to the Fabrics-Store.com page to look for this promotion.

Or use the link below to go straight to the page for this fabric.
Link to this terrific fabric

And this is the pattern I plan to use. When was designing for Simplicity I tried to always use their patterns, but NOW I am branching out and have discovered StyleArc!!!

I LOVE this dress. It is a great shape that will look good on anybody and can be fancy or casual.

So this dress will cost - fabric $21 + pattern $11 + printing $8 = $40 not so cheap, but it is a dress to wear to a wedding. And it is a great wearable design and should be quick to sew.

Amazon has a lot of StyleARC patterns for sale.

But for this newly released dress design go straight to their website.

StyleArc is based in Australia and the shipping isn't too expensive, but it can take a long time. I opted for the PDF version, which meant either printing out and taping together 55 pages of 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, or getting it professionally printed. I found a very reasonable service online.

PDFplotting.com

I had two patterns printed, so with shipping it was about $8 each. Really worth not having to print and tape 55 pages.

I am lucky. People give me stuff sometimes. This is a piece of beautiful handmade batik from the Philippines. A friend of mine gave me a box of this kind of stuff when she was overwhelmed by cleaning out her house.

It is not enough for a dress so I needed to find a top pattern with very few seams in order to not break up the print.

When I bought the StyleArc dress pattern they offered this shirt pattern for free ... just the thing.

This shirt will cost - fabric $0 + pattern $0 + printing $8 - pretty good!

Another style that will look good on everyone. This link will take you to this pattern.

I, also, found 2 yards of this vibrant lime green linen in my closet. It was very stiff, so I threw it in the washer and dryer.

It now feels wonderful and has that nice rumpled look BUT it shrank quite a bit. It started at 74 inches long and is now 70 inches. Best to get all that shrinking over now.

To me, it is just the right weight for a casual summer jacket. And it will look really good with the white linen skirt I found at the Thrift Store and the black eyelet skirt I made for myself a few years ago. Read the blog I wrote about making it here!

I might be able to wear it over the white dress I'm making for the wedding, too.

And look a this perfect pattern I found in my pattern drawer! I paid $4 for it in 1994 from Minnesota Fabrics ... remember them??

I bought this fabric fairly recently, in September last year. And I found the receipt.

So this jacket will cost - fabric $32 + pattern $0. not bad.

And another style good for most.

Now I still look at Simplicity's catalog and I really, really like this blouse, but don't know what fabric to use.

I found this on a bolt in my closet . I actually kind of like it, but I'm not so sure it will go with the other things in my wardrobe.

thinking ....

I will head off to the Thrift Store to see what I can find. You can often find unused fabric and notions there. Or maybe I can find something to cut up.

Off I go ...

Back from the store and OH BOY did I have good luck! Of course, when you go shopping at a Thrift Store you have to be very open to what you may find.
Here is what I brought home.
1 1/2 yard dark grey cotton with colored strips (above) $4
2 yards off white corduroy (saving for later) $6
a bag with 5 zippers and a sewing kit $3
a bag with 7 yards of fabric $3 (4 yards of a navy/white stripe - saving) And the 2 different green and white stripes which I have decided to use for that Simplicity pattern. I will have to do some creative mixing.

So that top will cost - fabric $1.25 + pattern $4 = $5.25 very good!

Here is a very cool linen jumpsuit I also found at the Thrift Store and it actually fits me pretty well. But, I just can't wear it with those skinny little spaghetti straps ... maybe 40 years ago I could!!

Look at the great pockets it has! I am just going to turn this into a pair of loose summer pants.

Cost - $6

So total cost for five quality garments.

Dress - $40
Batik top - $8
Green Jacket - $32
Simplicity top - $5.25
Linen pants - $6
extras - $10 (interfacing, buttons, thread)

Total - $101.25

And think of all the money I won't be able to spend, because I will be too busy sewing.

I plan to post blog for each of these garments as I make them.

0 Comments

1st quilt for my granddaughter ❤️❤️❤️

4/24/2019

4 Comments

Believe it or not. THIS is the very first quilt I have ever made! Although I have designed patterns incorporating piecing, I have never made a finished quilt with batting, binding and actual quilting.

Having a beautiful and darling five week old granddaughter was my inspiration.

You will have to take my word about this, because her parents have wisely decided not to post photos of her online. But, this allows me to declare she is the most wonderful little girl ever born!!

At least to me she is.

Since my son and daughter-in-law moved into a new apartment in December anticipating the birth of their baby, I gave them for Christmas a voucher to make curtains for a room of their choice. I was so happy they chose the baby's room.

The splatter paint print they decided on for the curtains had a delightful coordinating animal print. So I bought two yards of that, not really sure what I would do with it.

Then I went to an American Sewing Guild meeting where several of the ladies brought quilts to show they had made for their grandchildren. And I thought ... "Heck! I can do that!"

Don't you just love the whimsical animals on the coordinating print?

Not feeling as if I needed to reinvent the wheel, I decided to use a simple traditional quilt design from this book, which I have had for a long time.

Good news for you, there are MANY used copies on Amazon for as little as $1.04 plus shipping. It is a good introduction to quilting.

I used the "Economy quilt" design in the book.

So, I made copies of the pattern at the back of the book, got out my rotary cutter and went to work.

I ended up sewing a lot of it on my reliable classic Bernina 830 Record, my trusty back up machine. Because, I had a friend over for a few days to help her get back into sewing after retirement and she was trying out my Juki f600. She ended up buying one for herself.

I should work for Juki.

I like to chain stitch when I have lots of small things to sew and cut them apart all at once.

And, you know ... I think of myself as pretty accurate when sewing even seams. BUT, WOW ... you have to be super perfect and perfectly accurate when sewing all those small pieces if you want everything to line up in the final assembly.

I have new respect for quilters!!!

At least half the fabrics I had at home, but I did go out shopping for more small bright prints that would match with the colors in the animal print fabric and curtains.

It is so challenging and satisfying to choose and arrange all the fabrics and colors.

Actually this is harder than I realized giving me even more respect for experienced quilters.

When I almost had enough blocks, I laid them out on the floor on a dark tablecloth so I could play around with the placement.

The pattern in the book designated 4 blocks across by 6 long for a crib quilt, but I made more thinking I would make in a bit bigger. Then I realized I bought crib sized batting. It was only large enough for the 4 by 6 quilt like the book.

SO! what to do with the extras?????

Make a pillow!

And actually crib size isn't that small. It fits on the top of a twin bed, so she can probably use it for a while after she grows out of her crib.

The one little custom touch I added to this quilt was rick rack in the border seams. I am rather fond of rick rack when sewn this way, just half of it peeking out.

Plus, I have LOTS of it left over from other projects. Waste not want not.

This was a very satisfying project. I hope to make another quilt or two or three. And I will so much more appreciate every quilt I see, knowing what goes into making one.

I am starting to pull together a blog about patterns and fitting for larger sizes and for all of us who are experiencing body changes as we age. Should be up next week.

4 Comments

Good basic capes ... Simplicity 8771

4/19/2019

0 Comments

Here is the second of my last three patterns from a year ago. It is a well balanced half circle cape and comes in just one size. Should be a useful basic pattern to have.

I seem to have lost my sketches, but you can see the design from the official pattern instruction sketches. Figuring out the placement for the bias tape on view C was interesting. It has to make a gradual curve from the bottom of the center back to the top of the center front and look good when falling in folds while being worn.

See how view A has an odd seam at towards the bottom of in the back?

Well ... I wanted a true half circle cape, not one with a shoulder seam running down the side. So this was the only way to do it. See how the pattern fits onto 54" fabric? The lower edge at the back of the cape is a separate piece that fills out the circle on the left.

Also, see how this was too big to lay out on my cutting table!

I do have photos of my mock ups ...

Here's one sad thing about my retiring ... my husband won't have the fun of dressing up in whatever I have been making. Lucky for me he is almost Simplicity's sample size exactly and has tested every mens costume over the years.

You can see how he gets into character. But, I also enlisted my the sons from time to time with varying degrees of enthusiasm ?

Also, the appliquéd animal heads were fun to design. I took classic heraldic heads and modified them to be easy to stitch on.

The thing that has really helped me applying appliqués is using Heat'n'Bond on the entire appliqué so it can be completely fused in place before stitching around it. Not only does it hold the fabric in place, it stiffens it so it doesn't pucker when zigzagging.

Make sure to get the Lite kind. It can be stitched through by machine with out getting the needle sticky.

HOW TO ATTACH A TASSEL TO THE END OF A PIECE OF CORD

#1 Take a threaded needle and wrap the end farthest from the needle tightly around cord, just below tape that is keeping the cord from unraveling. THEN cut close to tape.

#2 Put a dot of glue at end of cord. Notice the thread used for wrapping is still attached to the cord.

#3 Stick the top side of the tassel to the gluey end of the cord.

#4 Stitch many times connecting the cord to the tassel. Don’t worry if it looks a bit messy, because …

#5 All that hand stitching will be covered when the hanging loop from the tassel is wrapped around the join. First put on a little glue, then wrap and secure with a few more hand stitches.

And, as usual, Simplicity found terrific models.

Well ... I have finished my granddaughter's quilt and plan to write about it next week. AND, I have a new respect for quilters ... the necessary accuracy and the arranging of color and pattern! It is very fun, but harder than I thought.

until next week ....

0 Comments

<<Previous

Forward>>

1948 Simplicity dress - making it work!!

Vintage Pattern curiosities - 1940s

The clothes I LOVE ❤️

Batik Top - fabric tells me what to do

White Linen Dress - sewing fast!!!

Summer Sewing to SAVE!!

1st quilt for my granddaughter ❤️❤️❤️

Good basic capes ... Simplicity 8771

From Andrea

Archives