Month: September 2018

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, halloween, halloween-a-long, sew-a-long, sewing, Uncategorized, vintage, Vintage Community, vintage life, vintage pattern, vintage reproduction, vintage sewing, vintage style

Halloween-a-long

Lizzie Violet

The most spooktacular time of the year! Halloween oh how I love thee! For the entire month of October, we are going to have a Halloween-a-long! Let’s make some vintage style Halloween themed garments! I will leave the style of vintage type garment up to you, the only catch is it must be Halloween themed. You can do this with colours, material patterns, by adding adornments or show us the costume you are making!  I plan on making a few Halloween themed circle skirts! Show us your spooktacular creations!

 

To join in all of the fun, please join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/killerkitschvintagewips/

If you post photos on Instagram, please tag me @killerkitsch13 and use hashtags, #killerkitschsewalong #halloweenalong

We are starting on October  1st and will do the SAL for the month of October!

Everyone is welcome to join!

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Schiaparelli Bowknot Sweater Knit-a-long

Lizzie Violet

Let’s get all tied up with our bowtie-a-long. See what I did there… all tied up. Bowtie… Ok. Let’s move along.

For our October to December knit-a-long let’s do a bowtie-a-long. We will have two patterns available for this knit-a-long. The first is the Bow-tie Spencer and the second pattern is an updated version of the Elsa Schiaparelli Bowknot sweater. The pattern was re-created and by knitwear designer Lisa Stockebrand (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/lisa-stockebrand). It is a free Ravelry pattern, but for ease, I have put a .pdf pattern in the files area of our Killer Kitsch Vintage Knit-a-long Facebook Group. Both patterns will be available there.

The Elsa Schiaparelli Bowknot sweater is from her 1927 collection. It is beyond stunning!

If you want to learn more about Elsa Schiaparelli and her designs, this is a great blog to start with. https://blog.pattern-vault.com/2014/01/22/schiaparelli-patterns-part-1/ or the official website. http://www.schiaparelli.com/fr/maison-schiaparelli/l-histoire-de-la-maison/#annees20

I am excited to see what you come up with! I think these are perfect Christmas/Yule jumpers!

To join our October to December KAL and any of our other KALs, please join our Facebook group. Killer Kitsch Vintage Knit-a-long — https://www.facebook.com/groups/killerkitschvintageknitalong/

If you post your KAL photos on Instagram please tag me at @killerkitsch13 and use tags #killerkitschknitalong and #bowtiealong.

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This Retro Life

Lizzie Violet

Thank you Kia from This Retro Life for a wonderful chat! It was a lot of fun to talk about my passion for vintage, sewing, knitting and B-movies! Please check out, like her page and podcast. Kia’s podcast is chalk full of amazing vintage chats!

You can find This Retro Life by clicking the below link or on most podcast apps such as iTunes, PlayFm or Stitcher.

Please also check out This Retro Life’s website.

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, sewing, Uncategorized, vintage, Vintage Community, vintage life, vintage pattern, vintage reproduction, vintage sewing, vintage style

Goredskirt-a-long

Lizzie Violet

I’m excited about the gored skirt sew-a-long. This is a wardrobe staple and will fit in with every vintage wardrobe. The gored skirt dates back to the 14th century and is much used in 19th century. Very popular in the late 1860s, mid-1890s, early 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, and now worn as a classic skirt style.  

The beauty of a gored skirt pattern is it is easier to add or remove panels or make them larger to fit your curves! You can also do a straight bottom, rounded panels or make a tulip shaped bottom! Many, many options.  The additional beauty of this sew-a-long is you can use a commercial pattern, your own pattern or self-draft the skirt. I’ve included links to both self-drafted or paid patterns information in our Facebook group.

This sew-a-long will run from September 15th to September 30th.

I have created an FAQ page with links and you will find it in the files over at our Killer Kitsch Vintage WIPs group. There is a variety of tutorials that are very easy to follow.

If you post photos on Instagram, please tag me @killerkitsch13 and use hashtags, #killerkitschsewalong #goredskirtsewalong

Everyone is welcome to join!