by Quirky Kiwi | Aug 27, 2017 | Miscellaneous, Vintage
As you may know, I entered the Vintage Section of the Simplicity Sewing Challenge last year. You may not know however, that I won it! 😃 I was very, very surprised! There were so many fabulous entries that I thought my top didn’t stand a chance....
by Quirky Kiwi | Oct 30, 2015 | Miscellaneous
There’s one type of email which always gets me very excited – an email from one of the Big Four pattern companies informing me their new patterns for the coming season have been released. But the excitement is not for the reason you might think . . . I...
by Quirky Kiwi | Sep 13, 2015 | Miscellaneous, Vintage
OK, this isn’t really a sewing related post, but I’m hoping you won’t mind a little detour! My Mum bought this hand tatted cardigan from an op shop (charity shop, thrift shop) in New Zealand and I’m trying to find out a little more about it,...
by Quirky Kiwi | Jun 21, 2015 | Miscellaneous
Please say a big “hello!” to Gertie – my mannequin 😀 I’ve never owned a dressmakers dummy/mannequin, but I’ve thought about it many times. I always seemed to get caught up in the debate of whether an adjustable or non-adjustable one...
by Quirky Kiwi | Apr 20, 2015 | Miscellaneous, Vintage
The time finally arrived when my vintage pattern stash started to take over the house. What started as “I just have to have that vintage sewing pattern and then I’ll be happy” turned into “but I can’t let that lot of 28 vintage patterns...
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...
