by Quirky Kiwi | Mar 26, 2015 | Completed Garment, Current Project, Future Projects, Vintage
So as I mentioned in an earlier post, I finished making my first ever garment from a vintage pattern! (Well actually I finished it at the end of last year but it’s taken me until now to work out how to take decent photos without the assistance of a friendly...
by Quirky Kiwi | Feb 10, 2015 | Future Projects, Miscellaneous, Vintage
Yippee! The Great British Sewing Bee is back in all it’s glory! It’s series 3 and I was wondering how they were going to make it more difficult and/or find better sewers than series 2. Well there’s certainly some very competent sewers this time...
by Quirky Kiwi | Sep 29, 2014 | Future Projects, Vintage
“Enough of the collecting of vintage patterns, I need to make a garment from one!” I decided the other day. I made a few decisions about what my first project should be: I thought I’d start off with a simple top, nothing too complicated, so that if...
by Quirky Kiwi | Jul 7, 2014 | Future Projects, Vintage
Well, over the past few weeks I’ve managed to increase my vintage pattern collection quite considerably! You can get some real treasures on ebay – I won an auction for a lot of 12 vintage patterns and it was like Xmas when I opened up the parcel! Here is a...
by Quirky Kiwi | Jun 14, 2014 | Future Projects, Vintage
Woo hoo! I’m a proper blogger now – I have real comments on my blog posts, not just the spam comments you always get! I’m a happy bunny! (It doesn’t take much, I know 😉 ) Ok, back to what I intended to write about . . . About a year ago, one...
