Winter Coat!

After a couple of months of sewing and swearing, my wool Winter coat is finally complete! In fact, I got it finished a couple of weeks ago, just before the snow and temperature began to fall. I hate being cold and I hate Winter, but so far this coat is doing an awesome job of protecting me from it.

This Vogue pattern is from 1968, but I think the midnight blue colour wool is classic enough to not look particularly retro/vintage. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to wear crazy retro/vintage style clothing, but I prefer more undertstated coats so they go with the majority of my wardrobe. And seeing how much effort and motivation I had to conjure up to get through this pretty mammouth (for me) task, I hope it last a few years!

I made a couple of changes to this pattern, for details on these and more infor on this project in general, please check my blog post:

http://sozowhatdoyouknow.blogspot.com/2010/12/walking-in-winter-coat-wonderland.html

Thanks for looking, happy stitching peops!

Zoe xxx

1960s dress

My latest dress is a blend of McCalls 9583 from 1968 and McCalls 7245 from 1963, though that wasn't my original plan!   I wrote more about my trials and tribulations here, but I am happy with the end result.   It's also the cheapest dress I've ever made!

McCall's 9087: 60s dress from 60s tablecloth

Thanks to my self-imposed clothing and fabric ration, I'm having to get creative in sourcing dress fabric. This dress started life as a tablecloth, presumably sometime during the late 1960s/early 1970s. I bought it in a French thrift shop for €2.

I underlined it with a cast-off bedsheet dyed brown, making this dress something of a walking white sale. The pattern is McCall's 9087, from 1968.

More details and another dress made from non-dress fabric over at my blog.