Wednesday, November 26, 2014

All of your pattern shopping Black Friday Sales in one place!

Hello readers!
I'm in a pie-baking frenzy today in anticipation of Thanksgiving tomorrow. This will be my first big holiday without my Mama this year and I'm trying to stay busy and not dwell on it. Shopping is turning out to be a great distraction. I'm already in Christmas shopping mode and I know that as the holiday ends tomorrow and many of you unwind and relax from a big meal and lots of company, your minds will turn to shopping too.

The Etsy pattern sellers always put on a really great show this time of year and many offer some amazing Black Friday deals. If you have some pattern buying in mind, here are all of the pattern sellers Black Friday/ Cyber Monday sales all in one place - starting with mine which begins today!

Use Coupon Code SEWFATTYSEW at Mrs. Depew Vintage for 20% 0ff!
Other shops having sales (most will end after Cyber Monday):

Decades of Charm: 25% off.

Retro Monkeys: 25% off.

Monkey and Friends: 20% off.

FancyWork: 20% off with Coupon Code: Fri28

Pattern Shop: who knows?

Vintage Needle Finds: Discount with coupon code: VN2014

Stitching by Numbers: 20% off with coupon code: BF20

AdeleBeeAnn Patterns: 20% off with coupon code: HolidayBlitz

RedCurlz: 25% off with coupon code: blackfriday14

Violet Crown Emporium: 20% off with coupon code: BFBLITZ

So Vintage Patterns: 15% off with coupon code: SAVE15

We Are Vintage Sewing: 20% off with coupon code: BLITZ20

Sew As It Was Patterns: 20% off with coupon code: BFBLITZ

MaisonMignot: 20% off

Sandritocat: 20% off

Roses Pattern Treasury: 15% off

Pattern Memories: 25% off with coupon code: PMSALE
 
Grey Dog Vintage: 20% off

Sydcam123: 20% off with coupon code: BF2014

PattysPastTimes: 20% off with coupon code: HOLIDAYBLITZ 

Neverwares: 15% off with coupon code: MYSTYLE 

Purple Plaid Penguin: 20% off with coupon code: BF20Sale  

She'll Make You Flip: 25% off with coupon code: BLITZ25

PengyPatterns: 20% off with coupon code: PP20OFF  

VintagePatternsCo1: 25% off with coupon code: VPCBlackFriday

EJ Vintage Avenue: 20% off with coupon code: EJvintage

ClairebearToo: 20% off

Pretty Pattern Shop: 20% off with coupon code: BFBLITZ

Come See Come Sew: 25% off with coupon code: HOLIDAY14 ($20 minimum purchase.)

Midvale Cottage: 20% off

Nostalgia Vintage 2: 20% off

Beary Amazing Emporium: 25% off 

Fab Patterns 1015: 20% off

Anne 8865: 25% off 

PatternAndStitch: 20% off with coupon code: BLITZEN


 
Happy Sewing - Happy Shopping!







Friday, November 7, 2014

Make your own... Lingerie and Loungewear from 1949.



Hello lovely readers! Today I was browsing my collection of vintage editions of Le Petit Echo de la Mode and I stumbled upon this lovely fashion spread from 1949 featuring trousseau lingerie and lounge wear.


These designs were once available as mail order sewing patterns (oh, to have such a magazine delivered to your mailbox!). I realized though, as I drooled over these patterns, that I have quite a few similar designs in my shop.


So, I thought I'd share today, how to get the 1949 looks pictured in the magazine using patterns from Mrs. Depew Vintage!


1. Bra in Satin - Easily copied using Depew #2015.
2. Panties with gathered waist - Use Depew #7311A and add allowance to the waist for gathers.
3. Corselet - Use Depew #2003 and add a top-stitch motif to the center front.
4. Basic straight slip - Use Depew #604.
5. Rayon bra with lace trim - Use Depew #352.
6. Corselet with wide lace ruffle - Use Depew #2002 and finish the lower edge with 6" or wider lace trim.
7. Tap pants with gathered side panels - use Depew # 612 and add side panels as cut-outs to the side legs.
8. Slip with ruffle - Use Depew #7314, cut it shorter at the hem and change the neckline as needed.


9. Slip with ruffle and tap pants with ruffled leg. Slip - Use Depew #7314. Tap pants - Use Depew #7314B.
10. Dressing gown - Use Depew #5003.
11. Pajama set - Use Depew #354 or Depew #601.
12. Pink dressing gown - Use Depew #5004 and replace cuffs with lace.  Blue nightgown with lace trim - Use Depew #171.

In other sewing news, I was really excited to learn yesterday that Collete Patterns will be releasing a digital sewing magazine starting in December! Seamwork will feature articles, sewing tutorials, and downloadable easy-to-sew sewing patterns. I really enjoy reading the Coletterie blog and I know that the magazine is going to be even better!

Image courtesy of Seamwork and Collete Patterns.

To get updates on Seamwork's progress, writers, and patterns, and to be entered to win a full year's worth of patterns in the process, sign up here!

Happy sewing, my darlings...







Sunday, November 2, 2014

Simplicity S-Series - I have dated them at last!


Hello my dear readers! It is a bright, sunny Saturday here in California and I am a happy girl today. Many of you are quite familiar with my obsession with the Simplicity S-Series Patterns. I have been collecting and researching them for a few years now and while I was relatively confident that they were from the late(ish) 1930's, I had no proof. None of them have ever had any copyright dating on them.  I have scoured the internet and antique shops for old Simplicity pattern flyers - buying every one I could find, and finding no trace inside them of S-Series patterns! (You can see a fraction of my collection of Simplicity pattern flyers here.)
I was at a dead end.
Until recently, that is...


I found this Simplicity counter catalog from March, 1938 on Ebay last week, and while I was browsing the auction pictures, I saw it - a small glimpse of what I knew to be Simplicity S-602! I didn't care that the booklet was in sad condition, and that it had been used as both a recipe book and diary (strange, and fascinating) for 40 some years... I had to have it! Boy, was it worth it! I found EVERY SINGLE S-Series pattern they ever released, both in the index, and in illustrations.


Without further ado, for your viewing pleasure...

Simplicity S601 and S602, both in my collection.
Simplicity S607 and S603, both of which I NEED!
I was delighted to find illustrations of Simplicity S603 and S608, both of which I knew existed, but had never seen before!

Simplicity S604 (in my collection) and S602, which I need!
Simplicity S612 and S605, both in my collection. Reproductions of S612 and S605 are now available! Just click on the links.
Simplicity S606 and S609, both in my collection.
Simplicity S611 and S610, both in my collection.
Simplicity S614 in my collection.
As you can see, the lady who owned the catalog pasted recipes from newspaper all over the 300+ page book!

Simplicity S615, in my collection.
Simplicity S616, in my collection.
Simplicity S618, and S617, both in my collection. A reproductions of S617 is now available! Just click on the link.
Simplicity S619, in my collection.
Simplicity S620, in my collection.
Simplicity S621, and S613, both in my collection.
Simplicity S622, in my collection. (Also, check out the hooker eye shadow on the lower right corner. Lovin' it, girl!)
Simplicity S623 and S624, both in my collection.
I now have gratuitous amounts of boxer patterns for no reason.
So what's next? I need to find only three: S603, S607 and S608, and then I will have them all... Then I will sew them all. I'll be swimming in silk nightgowns and my poor husband will have more vintage boxers (which he wouldn't wear) than he'll know what to do with.

How about you? Do you have something vintage and charming that you obsessively collect?