I started sewing about 3 years ago when I got to be a stay at home mother of 2 and have been trying to teach myself ever since. I was supposed to have learned how to cook for the family, but sewing seemed much more fun (and no-one has starved yet....)
Originally Victorian and Edwardian costuming appealed to me, but I started blogging about 18 months ago and discovered all of you wonderful and talented Retro Sewing People and got hooked! What can I say, I am just fashion fickle - I love it all! At the same time I started blogging, I also became addicted to collecting original patterns - from 1860's onwards - I am progressively scanning them and putting them on my pattern blog here
I just finished sewing a 1952 Bathing Costume (Vogue 7860) that I thought I might share. It was sewn on my handcrank Singer 201, so it is carbon neutral constructed as well (and the zipper and the fashion fabric are recycled!)
