Velma Kelly End Dress...

I whipped up this Velma Kelly End Dress in about four hours minus time for lunch.

Hers:

Mine:

Pattern:

I don't know why the dress photographs blue. It's more purpely IRL. It's just waiting to be hemmed. What do we think?

Question for my readers...

I pose a question to my readers.

Would you still follow this blog if I changed it to something like The Sewing Addiction rather than The 1920s Addiction?

As you can see I've not posted much here lately.

Get ready!

We're going way back! Further than the 20s to the 1800s.

I started working on a Mrs. Lovett dress that I've been planning since oh I dunno the movie came out in theaters. I bought the fabric way back then too which hopefully doesn't cause trouble now because I need a little more of it.

The progress thus far is the skirt is assembled and gathered. The bodice is half done. I need another color of fabric to finish it.

I am very excited about this dress. Don't worry you'll see it when it's done. Watch out lame Halloween costumes!

Anyway I don't have any other place to showcase this so it's going here!

OMG!

Commercial Pattern Archive is opening its doors until Wednesday, August 19th.

So many patterns! I haven't even made it though the first 500 of 1920s yet!

Do you feel abandoned?

Well, don't even though I am kind of all about my new blog that no one's reading. :(

The news is my sewing machine hates me. It was my mom's. It's a Sears Kenmore from the 70s. So yeah it old but it's a machine and not a computer. It's been in and out of the Sears store. It's been in and out of a shop that specializes in sewing machine repair. Recently they told me that the belt keeps falling off for no reason whatsoever. Yes, there is no perfectly logical explanation for this happening. It just hates me. Nevermind the fact that my mom used it for thirty years and I used it for three before it decided to hate. So the verdict is that I currently have it back. I am working on this:
In this beautiful dragonfly brocade:


And one day I will finish it if my machine ever decides to love me again. :(

New blog!

I don't know if any of you vintage junkies would be into this but here it is!

*J-Style*

Tell your friends.

Last update...

Hey everyone!

I've been kinda lagging on the posts lately. I haven't really made anything major and I've been trying to get my sewing machine up and running so I can give my mom's back to her.

Anyway, I bought this pattern:
It's my first of this kind, a double layered dress. I'm quite excited about it.

This will be my last post for some two weeks because I'm going to Japan! I visited a vintage shoppe while there once but I doubt I'll stumble across anything 20s.

Sayonara! I'll catch up with you when I return!