1940s Bra Sew Along Update

Judging by the snail pace at which I've been proceeding, you could hardly tell just how excited I am about Anna's 1940's bra sew-along......

But after what seemed like an endless bout of illness in the house and some very persistent printer problems, I'm ready to get started.

 First step accomplished: PDF pattern is printed and ready to be cut.

If you want to get your hands on Anna's pattern, you can find it here. There's a great selection of over 100 vintage lingerie patterns in her shop, vintage lingerie notions as well as all sorts of other fabulous vintage patterns.

1940's Bra Sew-Along

Mrs Depew (aka Anna) over at A Few Threads Loose is having a vintage lingerie sew-along. A 1940's bra sew-along, to be exact. 

 I was thrilled to sign up for it and then I was pleasantly surprised to win one of the four digital patterns she gave away!!

1940's bra pattern 

For details of the sew-along and all sorts of wonderful vintage sewing techniques, tips, patterns and inspiration head on over to Anna's blog.

The Vintage Sewing Pattern Pledge

The other day I bumped into a post over at  A Stitching Odyssey blog with a sewing challenge that got me all excited.
 The gist of it is that you join in and pledge to sew from vintage patterns in 2015.

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There's all manner of options as to how you can take part in the challenge, with varying degrees of difficulty.
Options range from actually using your very first vintage pattern to promising to sew 5 items from vintage patterns.

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If you head over to this post HERE you can find out the details and take the pledge.

Of course, I jumped right in and took my own pledge to make at least 5 things from vintage patterns over the next year.

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I wanted to take pictures of some of my favourite vintage patterns to include in this post but as my camera is still not working, I chose a few random ones from my etsy Vintage Patterns favourites collection that I hope you like. Click on any picture to go to the link.
I will, however, be making a post of my favourite vintage patterns from my own collection soon.