Well, the holidays are over, and we can settle in for the winter. One easy project to keep busy is to whip up some aprons to wear of give l...
Viva La Moda Magazine: Fashion & Handmade
If you love vintage, fashion, and indy designs, you will cheer this new online magazine: Viva La Moda. It is smart, trendy, and fun. The g...
Black Cocktail Dresses, Always in Style
We are wanting a dress with glamour and punch this New Year's eve. Designers are showing styles that seem so retro that we found a few ...
Vintage Baby
Why not a vintage baby? You know, the type whose mom/auntie/grannie is a vintage lover, so she buys tiny vintage for the youngest in the gr...
Sew Joe Stitch Lounge
Recently Pintucks has completed a remodel, becoming more retail than sewing studio. This has left a gap for anyone wishing to take sewing c...
1920's Flappers, Art Deco Coats and Erte
During the 1920's, women's lives changed for ever. This was the "Roaring Twenties" and Flappers were sporting easy to wea...
Halloween Costumes: Witchy Woman
A witch costume for Halloween? Now there's a novel idea. It seems that what was once the territory of snaggle toothed old hags, widene...
Halloween Costumes: Movie Queens & Vintage Style
MMMMMMM, so whatcha gonna do about Halloween? Yahoo recently listed top costumes from movies, and these are very fun, easy to compile person...
Vintage Dior Sophisticate in Jeans
Looking for a statement look to wear with jeans? We love this soft green tweed wool jacket that expresses all that was great about the Dior...
Fall Cardys: Vintage sweaters
It's time again to pull out the sweaters and see what looks good. This year, with all of the dresses, we wanted to feature a few 'g...
But the Buttons!
What ever happened to buttons? The ones that came in colored groups, to sew down the front of each blouse and the back of each dress. Wher...
Sewing in Seattle: Nancy's Sewing Basket
Part of the fun of traveling is getting to finally see shops we have found online. Nancy's Sewing Basket came to our attention over a y...
Movie Costumes of the 1930's and early 1940's
When movies added sound, the medium took off. What followed was a few decades of prolific output of all types of film. This put a huge bur...
Selecting Fabric for Vintage Patterns
It can be a real chore to make the leap from a vintage pattern to fabric selection. This is especially difficult when your fabric resources...
1960's with Renaissance Inspiration
You have to see these sleeves, they are great. This dress has Renaissance inspired sleeves with a soft puff and pleated ruffle. Who makes ...
Halter Tops for Summer
Let's face it, we probably have a good 2 months left of summer weather. You still have time to make up some cute summer tops, and THEN y...
Sewing the 70's
Sometimes vintage fashions and sewing patterns can converge in amazing ways. Take for example the 70's yellow dress above. It has that ...
Aprons on the Line
We are in love with this book: "A is for Apron" by Nathalie Mornu. This book is too cute for words, yet it packs a wallop of apro...
1940's Vintage Fabric
They say that nothing dates fashion like color and fabric. These two rayon prints from the 1940's illustrate that very well. They are s...