About a month ago, Evelyn and I chose a theme for her birthday party - a 1930's mystery party that centers around her American Girl doll, Kit Kittredge. Everyone at the party needs to come dressed to play their role, especially the birthday girl.
After bidding (and losing out) on two vintage sewing patterns, I finally landed this pattern for $12. When the pattern arrived last week, Evelyn and I were in awe. We don't know exactly what year this pattern is from, but the style definitely looks like it's from the 1930's. The pattern's tissue paper is in excellent condition, except one piece is missing. The instructions, however, are very fragile. They are very clear and easy to understand...I just need to be extremely careful with the delicate paper.
Yesterday Evelyn and I went to the fabric store to choose material. She wanted fabric that looked like the birthday dress she has for her Kit doll, and this material was as close as we could get. Today I washed (aka, preshrunk) and ironed the material, and I also ironed the pattern tissue paper. The next step is to lay out the pattern pieces onto the fabric, in the hopes that the pattern directions are accurate.
1 comments:
I hate ironing, but I too ironed my pattern pieces.
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