where’s wally friday!!!!

So today is Friday and my lovely Waldo gets to be star of Red Candy’s Big Red blog!!! Where is Wally today???

My dog has such a traveled life! Comment on red candies blog if you know the answer

 

New season Pattern’s from simplicity.

So although I got up early to get dressed, clean the house, put the washing in, hang up all clean clothes, finish work in progress, iron ebay clothes, take pictures of ebay clothes, ebay the eaby clothes and have a shower, so far I have procrastinated by  doing everything else. After checking my email’s I found out simplicity’s new range is here in the UK! So after much debate here are my favorites in no particular order.

The Lisette collection is a new range of lovelies that include dresses, jackets and trousers. They seem very simple to sew and looking at the instructions, which are clear and concise I could sew up a few of these babies in a weekend. I think I am going to purchase all these patterns and use complementing colored fabrics to create a whole new summer wardrobe for my holidays.

It’s the skirt I love from this pattern. A short version would work best for short little me without the buckles, but alas no pockets.

I would like to make a new pair of 1950′s style capri trousers to wear in summer and I need a cover up for the beach. Seems this pattern has it all!

Another dress…maybe I can do without this one but it is a lovely little piece…. I will wait and see a review by someone else before jumping in and making this one.

I recently purchased vogue 8028 because stitchywitch made a fantastic version using green plaid. This shirt dress pattern is very similar, which is why I like it.

Pockets! enough said.

I have never made a skirt. I feel this pattern my be the start of something beautiful.

Ignore the skirt but the jacket here is fantastic! I want to make this for autumn/winter formal wear. Maybe in a charcoal grey….

Just cute.

I really want to make a bag using a this ikea fabric that I picked up over Christmas. I would love to make a dress out of it but really do not think it would look right. It is also one of their upholstery  weight fabrics, which although I have made two dresses from this before I rather using cottons/rayon.

More vintage pattern purchases….I only said I was not going to buy clothes….

So yet again I have been doing some ebay shopping for vintage patterns! What a surprise. Always searching for those elusive items that seem to only ever come up once in a life time. I have compiled a list of these patterns and later on in my blogging life I will share them with you, in the hopes that some fellow sewer can share the wealth. Any way, back to what I managed to nab this week.

First up:

2137 butterick

This is my favorite buy so far because I have been searching for a dress pattern to match that of Mad Mens’s Peggy Olson dress, and although I came close with Vintage McCall’s 3461 this sold for over £30′s on ebay and I simply could not bid as high as that. So I have waited for six months and this little baby fell in to my lap. It cost an ‘extravagant’ £3.50 inc p&p! I actually wooped, how sad.

Below is my Peggy dress of inspiration and the material I intend to use from Favourite Fabrics at £3.50 a meter. Not sure how to make the button front yet…..probably will be a fake join. Any help appreciated folks!

Mad Men's Peggy Olson

BLACK SOMERSET GINGHAM ♥ FABRIC CHECK COTTON

The next group of patterns were all purchased on auction from the same seller on ebay- the paper guy. I managed to get all 5 patterns for £51.98 inc p&P so technically they cost $1o (£7) each, which I am very happy with seeming as some of these have sold for £20 each. I also love getting American patterns because, like now some designs were never published over here in the UK.

PLAYSUIT PINAFORE JUMPER pattern 1135 14 uncut

Love this playsuit as I have just bought a vintage one very like it from cow and want to make more. I love that the 50′s style has the longer culottes rather than very short shorts, and a playsuit with pockets would be amazing. Looking for some soft rayon for this make.

Simplicity HOUSE COAT/DRESS pattern 4886

This pattern in picture 1 is almost exactly like one of my favorite dresses by Rare, which I bought in a Topshop sale about 8 years ago for £5. Sadly it has seen better days and really could do with being retired. Now I have a way of employing a new one! A stretch jersey in a emerald green maybe or spot like the original? Watch this space.

Simplicity SUN DRESS pattern 3552 size 40

There is this one pattern on my ‘want list’ that has caused no end of trouble. It’s the sailor dress McCalls 4395. It has came up once on ebay in 19 months and sold for just over £25. Boo! If it had been the perfect size I may have pulled out all the stops but sadly it was a little small. Since then I have been purchasing different patterns with similar features including this simplicity pattern with a picture frame collar. I will shorten this or make the bottom in to a wiggle skirt for a sailor inspired dress in red/navy with white collar. I’ll be wearing this in falmouth with a Pimms in one hand and book in the other. Perfect.

McCall DRESS pattern 8114

Not sure what I will be doing with this, its defiantly not at the top of my ‘to do’ pile but I love the pockets and could modernize the length, Or maybe just make the skirt part in a shorter length with extra ease?

Simplicity JUMPER & BLOUSE pattern 2705

This fifth pattern was an add on purchase. Can you guess why I loved it? Yes its those dam pockets again. I simply can not help myself. I will probably add to these pockets by making them heart shapes. Cute cute cute.

I also bought 2 bargains from a shop on etsy. Two girls dresses….again not sure if i will even make these seeming as the only little girl in my family is 10 months old. I just like the idea that these miniature dresses take less fabric so they cost less to make, whilst still challenging my skills. These patterns cost me $1 each! (£0.65) with $4 postage for both. If I do make them I will probably sell them on Etsy. I am going to be selling a few of my reviewed dresses in the future. Ones that either do not fit anymore or were dresses I made for skill development rather than for an event. I also have over 200 items of purchased clothing that I have sorted out from the junk in my loft/6 wardrobes and mothers house. There was over 500 items but i sent a lot to charity and kept the best for selling. These sales will be put forward to fund my sewing and craft projects. Just need to get round to doing it! Hope you enjoyed these lovely patterns. Off to review a finished project.

Girls Early 1950s Circle Skirt Dress with Fitted Bodice Simplicity Pattern 4388 Size 12

Girls 1950s Pretty Flutter Sleeve Party Dress Simplicity 3292 Size 10