tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50124442109854415562011-11-27T15:32:57.163-08:00This RetroMonde Vintage Patterns blog is where I get to share the joy of living the creative life, while trying to make a living selling vintage sewing and craft patterns online. I'm an avid second-hand store shopper, and am proud of my "reduce-recycle-reuse" way of life! Come share my adventures as I look for the fabric, yarns and beads that I use to make jewelry and clothing for pets and people.Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-50495065641266508742010-08-08T00:04:00.000-07:002010-08-08T00:26:18.955-07:00

One of the things I really love about vintage treasure hunting is the research I get to do about some of what I purchase. I buy and sell on eBay, and am always on the lookout for antiques. So yesterday I bought an interesting old souvenir handkerchief, from 1896.The large white mans handkerchief is printed with a photo and article about Dr. W. G. Grace (whom I'd never heard of before.) It claims

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Haven't been having much luck at sales lately... guess I lost my vintage pattern mojo for a bit. But before we went on our London vacation, I had a run of good luck, finding some pretty rare vintage patterns. I found a 1940's Lucille Ball by Hollywood patterns, and a handful of other Hollywood patterns featuring famous actresses. A few Spadea patterns made my hands shake, like a killer Jo

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Just a quick post about my latest project. I decided (again, lol) to quit being lazy and start sewing with one of my many vintage sewing patterns. You may point out that this one isn't really a vintage pattern. True, Butterick P408 is a repro. But the original is hard to find, and I'm too cheap to spend much on it anyway. I found this beauty at my local Goodwill. I decided to try the dress using

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No, not in a job-job. But in my own work at home job... I'm still selling vintage sewing patterns on eBay and Specialist Auctions. And I'm back at work on my website. I'm building a business website for people that want to learn how to work for themselves from home. When I have a little more to show, I'll link to it from here. This blog is still about sewing and creating things. I've been playing

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-41607926556776843452009-03-31T22:35:00.000-07:002009-04-03T21:14:10.983-07:00

Lately I've been wanting a new apron with good pockets to carry stuff in. What I want is someplace to keep my cell phone in when I'm at home. We got rid of our land-line last month and I'm not used to hauling my phone from room to room all day long... I set it down and forget to take it with me when I go somewhere else. I have an iphone and it's just a little too big to fit in my jeans pockets

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Today was a good day. I finally made time to get to work on that dress I had planned since the first of the year. I had brought the fabric upstairs after I pre-washed it, and set it on the piano so I looked at it at every meal. Today I decided "Why not start that dress?" Whenever I get a chance to sew, I remember just how much I enjoy doing it. Yes, it's sort of tedious too, but in a good way.

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Well, 2009 is off to a great start! I've made 2 pattern sales on a site other than ebay, and I went to a sale today, and found dress patterns in the size I wear. Both of those things make me happy, happy, happy because I really love vintage patterns. I love to hunt for and find them, especially in my size, because I love to sew with them. And to top it off, I found the shirtdress pattern that

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-70484179824700475902008-09-24T13:43:00.000-07:002008-09-24T14:12:33.915-07:00

I've been meaning to find time to do some sewing lately, and finally decided to try some of my vintage apron patterns. Goodness knows I have enough of them, and am always looking for more! This past summer I found this one online at Chez Cemetarian. This pattern is gone obviously but she has consistently good stuff. Anyway, one of the plusses of buying and selling vintage fabric and other sewing

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Well, after not writing anything new on here for so long, and logging on after such a long time, I've decided that I'm definitely through with the orange! So hold on to your hats cause I'm going to change it again. Perhaps something mellow this time. We'll see. Tonight I'm working in my sewing room, sewing! My sister, niece and myself are going to a Renaissance Faire this weekend, and I've

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I was going through a box of old sewing patterns I picked up last weekend earlier today. When I picked up this pattern, suddenly I remembered that this had been one of my favorites back in the 70s. I was a constant sewer back then. Oh, how miss it! I began sewing when I was fairly young, on a treadle sewing machine that my mom ended up with. Mostly I just messed around at first, trying to make

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-57679347195754289922008-07-01T10:26:00.000-07:002008-07-01T10:42:38.193-07:00

Well, Ebay, in their infinite wisdumb, has decided to eliminate any links from our "ME" page to off-site pages. So I don't know if anyone will ever see this little blog again. I guess I've got to decide how to wake up my self-promotion skills so that this is more than just my diary. It's the first day of July, so it's half-way through 2008. Happy Half-Year to everyone. Time for some soul

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Well, if anyone is reading this, and you have been here before, you'll see that I'm fiddling around with the graphics again. No, I just can't leave well enough alone, I guess. And I'm probably going to play with my pretty pictures and colors again! I love the fact that I can make this look however I want it to if I can figure out how to do it. I don't have to ask anyone else to do it for me. Of

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I've been cleaning in my sewing room, trying again to sort and organize. I've been accumulating rick-rack trims and seam bindings lately. Since I make dog coats, I'm using the binding for the edges on quilted ones. I like to use vintage fabric for them, and the colors are hard to match with todays bindings, not to mention that the modern bias binding is a yucky poly-cotton blend. For the small

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What a day! I love Fridays, as it's my get "out of the house and look for patterns" day. Since gas prices went through the roof I've been staying home way more than I used to. On my shopping days I have a regular route of about 5 of my favorite places, and sprinkle in any sales that sound good along the way. I'm not very aggressive but decided to head out around 9-ish. Who needs to be number 103

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-64637351236653461392008-05-03T11:22:00.000-07:002008-05-03T11:38:26.678-07:00

I just finished reading the newest post on Erin's wonderful 'Dress-A-Day' blog. She was writing about how folks are so reticent to cut and use expensive fabric, thus avoiding the risk of ruining their beautiful fabric and investment. I agree with her about the fear of risk and the potential failure and humiliation. My mother always said "nothing ventured, nothing gained". Was that a Ben

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-9496437809705238872008-04-20T22:43:00.003-07:002008-04-20T23:06:06.470-07:00

Good grief, this isn't easy, is it? I don't know why my image didn't line up where I thought I put it. I'll have to try again but it's too late tonight so I'm going to leave it as it is for now. I'm determined to figure out how to do this html and editing myself. I'm tired of having to ask someone else to do my stuff for me. So I hope you'll bear with me while I work out the bugs. I'm using the

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I've been busy the last several days, not doing anything notable but rather just random stuff. Hence the title "Random Musings". First of all, last week was Victors 12th birthday, which passed uneventfully on Monday. It's hard to get excited about a Monday birthday, so he got to declare what was for dinner and dessert, which was calzone and pumpkin pie. Man, was my crust tough! Don't know why

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-65371977980703036302008-02-07T23:14:00.000-08:002008-02-07T23:40:10.378-08:00

I'm kind of excited to try another venue outside of ebay. Or hopefully in addition to ebay. I'm still trying to decide if I'll strike in a couple of weeks. I had the dates wrong and didn't realize that it was for a full week. That's a lot of sales I'll be missing and I need the money for bills and stuff. You know, the usual. And I get to go to San Francisco for a week in March but need air fare

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-44651562009123588782008-02-05T20:49:00.000-08:002008-02-12T22:38:07.465-08:00

I was in the middle of listing this vintage dress pattern, McCall's 6278, just now, but had to stop. It's happened several times lately. Just couldn't list it...had to keep it for myself. This one is an early 60s Italian-looking dress, like something Sophia Loren would have worn in one of her movies. The dress has a dropped gathered neckline in front, and a deep U-neck in back.It's shown with two

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I LOVE what I get to do! I treasure hunt for a living. Well, vintage sewing patterns and fabric are usually the treasure, but it's definitely treasure hunting. Last Friday I found almost 2 1/2 pounds of silver. I was at one of my top-secret favorite hunting grounds, and I found a glittering metal and cotton mesh textile. I calmly scooped it into my shopping cart and checked out. When I got home

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-86996541031594332442008-01-15T22:14:00.000-08:002008-01-15T22:50:38.041-08:00

Anyone reading this must have figured out by now that mine is not a pet-free home. I happen to think that pets make a house a home! I do keep our animals out of the basement where my fabric and the majority of my patterns are stored. I long ago had an incident with a pregnant cat and her litter in a box of vintage patterns and fabric...it was not pretty! They are also not encouraged in the

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Ahhh, the weekend! Since I'm self employed, weekends aren't usually a big deal. I work when it's convenient but shop for inventory on Friday or Saturday. I love to shop so even work is ok. Lately I've been in pattern bliss...I've found lots of great vintage patterns to add to my own collection as well as wonderful ones to sell. It seems the vintage embroidery transfer gods are smiling upon me and

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Yippee, I finished the dress, Sunday actually. I'm just pokey about posting sometimes. I'm really happy about how it looks and will be thrilled when I can wear it. Yeah, that means that it doesn't fit me know; it's just a teensy bit too snug in the waist. I like the fitted style though and will make another similar. Maybe the same one but without sleeves this time. The pattern was pretty simple,

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Hi! If anyone ever looks on here, you'll notice that I'm not very faithful about posting here as often as I'd like to be. I have so much to do, just like you. "But I'm always trying to improve (my stack of self-help books keeps getting taller, but I do read them), so I give challenges to myself. Yesterday I decided to make a dress from a pattern I listed for sale on ebay in a 7 day auction. Well,

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-10400940188397965112007-12-04T22:45:00.000-08:002007-12-04T23:25:53.684-08:00

I spent the day Sunday in my sewing room. That is a real treat because I was supposed to be doing other more important things, like paperwork, housework, yard work. It felt good, like having the day off work because you called in, but you aren't sick so you can enjoy it! I played hookey! It all started because I was going to make my dog a coat from an old pattern that I found at a sale. I

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Ok, its been a loooong time since I wrote here. For a while I was good about it and then I fell off the blogwagon. I've got good reasons and good excuses. Still working on organizing the taxes for this past year...almost done. Super yuck! I hate being late with them but it is what it is sometimes. I am doing much better about keeping up with our office work. Another thing that's pretty nifty is

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Well, crap! Found the fabric, pressed it, prepped pattern...what, no skirt pieces??? S**t! I guess it must have been a great skirt and the original owner used it with another pattern. So, that's what I'll do too. But, of course I can't sell the pattern with missing pieces. And didn't I count the pattern before listing it? Sure thought so, but I had a grocery bag of patterns that I was counting

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-55818833304632158182007-10-13T13:57:00.000-07:002007-10-13T14:22:52.881-07:00

Yes indeedy, I just gained another year. I wish I could say that I'm older but wiser. I'm working on that, though! Anyway, I decided that instead of scanning pictures and listing patterns for my good customers to purchase at my ebay store, I am going to sew a dress. I have the pattern listed already so I'm racing the clock. I think there's two days left, with no bids yet but a few watchers. Since

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-52538759243088475612007-09-25T22:25:00.000-07:002007-09-25T23:09:04.466-07:00

I'm not doing so well at keeping up this blog. But no-one has read it so it doesn't seem to matter at this time. I spend quite a bit of time working on my ebay store and sales...finding vintage patterns, tending and mending them, preping them for sale and then listing them, managing customers and finally shipping the patterns or whatever to their hopefully happy new owners. I like to think that

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-37798753717940376082007-09-07T23:08:00.000-07:002007-09-07T23:29:54.891-07:00

I love vintage patterns, that's pretty obvious. Old fabric, embroidery stuff, knitting and crochet books are the greatest! So when I get a chance to do it, I like to take a box of older patterns that have fallen on hard times and see what I can do with them. Yesterday I happened upon just such a box. Honestly, I don't understand how a pattern can get crammed back into an envelope like these were

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-43152748951902081292007-08-28T23:53:00.000-07:002007-08-29T00:06:17.978-07:00

Worked with my transfer pattern collection today for a while, sorting it out. Lots of Aunt Matha's and Workbasket's. Of course, one thing leads to another, so then I ended up in the basement trying to tidy my future studio. I think I've misplaced a box of transfers somewhere so I'm pretty motivated right now. Never did find it. It looked like a Lego delivery truck had exploded down there! There

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Well, I counted pattern pieces last night until my eyes crossed. It's tedious work but worth it to be sure that the patterns are complete. It's heart breaking when one I like is missing pieces. Some aren't bad to replace like facings. If the instructions are gone I can often figure it out anyway. I wonder where all the parts do go? And why don't things get put away better? I like to imagine a

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Yesterday I didn't post here. I went to sales, sorted embroidery transfers and just generally puttered around the house. Today the family went out boating up the Clackamas River. We took the dogs and our son in our little aluminum row boat, packed a picnic lunch and just had a great day. Spent several hours on the water while both my husband and son took turns rowing. (We have a motor but they

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Today was shopping Friday. I love shopping for goodies. The problem is finding just what you need and leaving the grot behind. Thats a great word, grot. It's from a British tv show in the 70s, 'the fall and rise of reginald perrin'. Great show that no one has ever heard of. Anyway, this was a so-so day for shopping. But I spent part of it with my older son and went to a farm sale with my husband,

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-12857879575086275632007-08-23T22:09:00.000-07:002007-08-23T22:35:14.357-07:00

I actually worked on a sewing project today for awhile. We had some mini quilts that were finished except for the tying off so that's what I did this afternoon. Sure felt good to have a sewing needle and thread in my hands again. Have you noticed that some needles just feel good? I like working with vintage steel. Does that sound funny? Almost sounds like swordsmanship! Anyway, I don't think that

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-19815039980759328682007-08-22T21:29:00.000-07:002007-08-22T21:44:15.661-07:00

This is a nifty length of heavy cotton border print fabric. I think it's from the 50s, but have no proof. One of the edges has been cut off, and someone began to make it into a pleated or gathered waist skirt...there's a metal zipper and a seam. I love the colors and the garden scene. Who doesn't like scarecrows? But I have such a problem using border prints. I don't have the waistline for a

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-4218775344200082672007-08-21T21:15:00.000-07:002007-08-21T21:31:07.528-07:00

Well, not me personally. My beautiful 4 hens have got on the ball and are starting to lay. Super cool thing, to go out and find eggs in their nesting boxes. I haven't posted for ages. So you don't know that Helga the hen turned out to be Hans the rooster. Turns out that Blondie, my auracana chicken, is a rooster too. So no pretty pastel blue and green eggs for us. I found a home on a farm for

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-54116901148143905562007-06-06T23:21:00.001-07:002007-06-06T23:39:11.323-07:00

Went shopping at the mall today with my sis. We had lunch at a mexi-mall restaurant. Good soup but what's up with no chips while we were waiting? Any good Mexican restaurant fills you up with chips and salsa while you kill time sipping the jumbo margarita. I think I just misspelled that but who cares?! I'd like one right now but am out of tequila. Anyway, we were on a quest...a cotton (not knit)

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-71736004647956757382007-06-05T22:15:00.000-07:002007-06-05T22:47:31.645-07:00

I finally did it. Figured out that I won't ever have time to sew, so I made time to sew today. So simple, huh? I'm pretty dedicated to the idea of seeing how long I can go without wearing jeans for a while, and I just don't have anything right now but a few jeans skirts. And I mean jeans skirts...remade a pair of jeans into a skirt. Went on rather a binge last year doing that for my shop. They

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I went shopping at Joanne Fabrics yesterday. Now, anyone who knows me will think that that was a ridiculous thing to do as my basement workroom is bursting at the seams with fabric. I've rarely said no to anyone that wanted to give me fabric, I shop for fabric online and anywhere else it is rumored to be lurking. Fabric shopping is my idea of a good time, anytime! And I love to sew but have not

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-20893867483461154162007-05-02T12:11:00.000-07:002007-05-02T12:25:56.460-07:00

AAAAAG! Another month has past. Well, I'm just a blogging machine, aren't I? Of course, stuff just sort of happens. Instead of converting the basement into my studio, Victor (our son) and I moved in 6 baby chicks the weekend before Easter. They are the cutest darn things. Soft, fuzzy and they make such a sweet chirp. Well, its been just about a month. We are in the process of building the coop,

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-28106358622254240772007-03-21T11:33:00.000-07:002007-03-21T11:56:13.323-07:00

OK, its been a month since my last post. That will never do. I can do this. God knows I sit at this computer enough. But maybe thats the problem You see, the computer is no where NEAR where I sew. I'm lucky enough to have a dedicated sewing room. Actually, I'm converting the entire basement to a studio to work in. But the closest I get to sewing is counting pieces of vintage patterns to make sure

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-59984601832886184982007-02-21T15:14:00.000-08:002007-02-21T15:34:37.336-08:00

Play is work or work is play? Because when I work I am playing. I love what I do. When I get the time to do it. If I have to (get to) go to work, I walk downstairs to my studio (which is much too messy now to show anyone) and decide on which project to work on. Does anyone else have a hard time figuring out where to start? I guess I must have the attention span of a gnat because I get started

Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16566950618358064937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5012444210985441556.post-77779469111273806502007-01-23T21:42:00.000-08:002007-01-23T22:04:07.999-08:00

 Hi. This is my first post here at my new blog. I was working on a different blog tonight but I lost the post 3 times! OK, I can take a hint...I gave up and decided to get writing here instead. I created this to be my working diary for projects I either am doing, want to do, or that I'm trying to avoid doing but need to do. I am unemployed now after 8 years owning my own retail store. It had 

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