Vintage Inspired Round-Up

Trawling through my blog post archive I've come to realise that many of my posts have vintage content, and I discover there are at least twenty vintage posts! So this Vintage Inspired Round-Up is to refresh your memory of some of my earlier Pattern Puzzle posts and to share a few points in history where vintage style has influenced my work. Where does it all start?

The rest of the post detail is here!  :)

Pattern Puzzle - CJ Drape Skirt

This weeks pattern puzzle is an update of a Charles James drape skirt design.  I have used my Skirt Block to begin this development.

For the story of the week and all the pattern making detail for the C.J. Drape Skirt, jump across to the website blog.

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Pattern Puzzle - Gil Brandao, Conjunto Pratico

Gil Brandao's patterns have a seductive quality in their simplicity and clarity.  Often with pattern making instructions, simplicity is no more that an absence of information that can be finally very frustrating.  Not so for Gil.  His diagrams have all the required information.  So much so that my inability to read Portuguese does not present a problem.

Pattern Puzzle - Gil Brandao, Conjunto Pratico

For all the pattern making detail for the Gil Brandao, Conjunto Pratico jump across to the website blog.

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Pattern Puzzle - Drape Back Dress

The simplest of shapes have a tendency to be the most difficult to solve in the pattern puzzle.  When there are no recognisable patten parts (armholes, necklines, etc.) a huge amount of creativity is needed to make sense of the pattern shape.  Each week our fans excel in their ability to work their way through the information, ask the best question and eventually win the day.  :)  They are the best!

The Drape Back Tunic is now a PDF Sewing Pattern.

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Pattern Puzzle - Handkerchief Fold Dress

At last the detail for the Saturday #PatternPuzzle is here!  My apologies for the delay to our usual posting but I had a little trouble with the graphics.  It was a wonderful round of creative answers and clever solutions that finally solved this puzzle.  Our handkerchief Fold Dress is so named because it struck me that the construction of this dress is much like a handkerchief with the corners folded into the centre.

Pattern Puzzle - Handkerchief Fold Dress

For all the pattern making detail for the Handkerchief Fold Dress is on the website blog.

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