Recent content by Elpinoine

You look gorgeous. I love the dress - so unique for a wedding, and the stole looks amazing with your hair.

Love the new dresses by both funda62 and kamikat. Great work! I just finished by first skirt. It looks lovely, but it's about a 1/2 inch away from being able to be zipped up. :( I guess it's a real sign I need to stick to my diet more.

I'm larger in the chest too and have had good luck with the Bali Flower bra. It runs in bigger sizes, and gives that vintage look without being too pointy. I find it to be a nice balance. Bonus is that it's really affordable too. It has fantastic support, and while I bought it for my vintage...

I love the hat! It's just beautiful.

Love those pants!

I plan on copying the patterns. This will be my first time using vintage patterns.

I'm going to look for one of those. I've been using my dining room table, but it's a fairly small table. Normally if I'm cutting cottons it's fine, but this was a bit too big.

I seem to be rip deficent. It starts okay and then I end up ruining a chunk of fabric. I don't know if I'm not ripping fast enough or what.

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I have one of those someplace from when I use to do quilting. I'll have to hunt it down. I was going crazy with it yesterday. It was so static clinging I couldn't do anything with it.

The two that are in the picture together are printed ones, so that I'm use to. the rest are all the perforated ones. I've told myself that since I'm fairly new to all patterns it will be just as easy to learn to work with them as it will the modern kind. :) I'm happy to hear that they are...

Do any of the sewers out there have a good way for getting a nice straight edge on their fabric before cutting? After trying for ages last night, I finally gave up on trying to pin out the pieces for my first skirt last night. I'm using a thin fake suede fabric and couldn't get a straight...

Isn't it great! I couldn't resist it. I really love the Hollywood patterns. I've yet to see one that I don't like. There was another I loved, but missed out on.

Thanks! I had given up on trying to find them.

No, I picked up a McCalls vintage style pattern when my local fabric store had them on sale. I'm not quite daring enough yet to try my own pattern. I just need to take a few photos now that they are finished.

I'm a very newbie sewer, who hasn't actually sewn anything other than knitting needles cases and aprons yet, but I'm already developing an addiction to collecting vintage patterns. I'm just starting my first circle skirt now (with a modern pattern), so it will be just a matter of time before...