Have you checked out the Vintage Sewing Patterns Wiki lately? More than 17,000 patterns have been submitted! Many contributors and editors have helped to tidy up the category tags, so it's even easier to find patterns with your favorite features. It's awesome! I could spend days hitting the Random Page button!
The recent post about requesting specific patterns to be reproduced as Vintage Vogue patterns reminded me to go check out the "Wishlist" category on the wiki. I think that the Wishlist would be an easy grassroots way for us to tell the modern pattern companies what we, their loyal and vintage pattern obsessed customers, are craving. Of course, calling or emailing them individually works too.
More than 200 patterns are on the wishlist. However, only a handful of people have tagged patterns for their wishlist, so the list is currently heavily skewed toward mod 1960's Vogue designer patterns, like Vogue 1418. (Nice, but not my thing. How about you?) The pattern with the most wishes (four as of right now) is Butterick 6737, which is a 1950's dress style more in line with the patterns that have made it into recent reproduction.
If you have some time, you might want to cruise through a few patterns and tag them for the wishlist. It's another way to let the pattern companies know what we like and what we want to see on the market!
Also, don't forget that you can add your pictures of completed projects to a pattern's page, and then tag it for the gallery! I know that more than four people have made the Walk-Away Dress - where are your pictures?
On a more personal note, I start maternity leave next week (due date is tomorrow, no baby yet!) and I hope to get some retro projects going while I'm home - especially Simplicity 8125! Updates will be posted here and at my blog, Chronically Uncool.