Cowboy Boot Pillow: Cute Vintage Pattern

Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 05:47

This pillow is so cute...

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cowboy boot pillow

Cowboy Boot Pillow: Click To Get Pattern Copy

Cowboy Boot Toss Pillow Pattern

This pillow will delight any cowboy fan. Make it from one color with embroidered designs, or make the top plaid or stripe and use plain for the bottom.

• Make the pattern on paper and cut the top apart from the bottom. Lay the pieces on material. Add 1/4″ for seam allowance.
• Turn under the seam allowance on the top edge of the bottom part of the boot. Stitch this to the top part of the boot as shown in the original pattern.
• Make “pull-on” tab and baste in place.
• Cut a matching or contrasting strip of material 2 and half inches wide and about 42 inches long. Sew this strip around the edge of one side of the boot. When sewing the other side of the boot be sure and leave about five inches open for putting in the filling. Turn right side out and fill.
• Sew opening shut.

Source: Women’s Household Handicraft (1962)

Free Vintage Sunbonnet Pattern: {Sewing}

Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 05:42

I love these bonnets I where them I have many that matches my dresses.. I even where mine to church and town..

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sunbonnet

Sunbonnets and more sunbonnets! Make ‘em to match your housedresses, your gardening outfits, even your sports clothes or your square dance costumes. Here’s one that opens flat for easy ironing and it’s so very easy to make. Two-thirds of a yard of average material will be enough.

Vintage Sunbonnet Pattern (1952)

The proportions shown on the chart should remain, but the scale may be varied to suit the size you plan–two and a quarter inches for each square will come out about right for the bonnet for an adult. The straight side of the brim should measure 18 inches and crown piece should be 20 inches long and 16 inches at the widest point-enlarge the scale accordingly. For a child’s bonnet, make the squares smaller.

Face the crown piece all around with a bias strip cut an inch and a half wide. Then sew a bias casing at X for drawstrings; work an eyelet in the center of casing and fasten strings at the side seams; later, tie them at center.

Cut an interfacing of heavy muslin and stitch with both brim pieces. Turn right side out and stitch around curve–as many rows as desired. Whip the straight edge. If you wish a light-weight slat type brim, it can be done with long emery boards from the manicure goods section. Use these stiff boards as slats, sipping them into channels that are stitched crosswise just outside a penciled outline of the emery boards; leave one end open so the “slats” may be removed for laundering.

Click Picture To Download Pattern

Sew snaps or buttons at dots. From O to O, sew, snap or button a band about a half inch wide by 8 1/2 inches long, to be a stay to keep the bonnet from slipping forward.

The curved outer edge, as well as tie ends, if you wish them, may have lace or embroidery trim. Broken line on chart shows optional shape for neck, if you want more protection from the sun.

Source: The WorkBasket (June 1952)

Free Laundry Bag Pattern – Vintage (1944)

Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 05:36

Well now that spring is coming upon us it's time to start hanging clothes in some areas.. I think I'm going to make one of these

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laundry bag for your clothes pins

Materials:

3/4 yard Printed Cotton

J. & P. Coats Percale Bias Trim, single fold

Coat Hanger

J. & P. Coats or Clark’s O.N.T. Mercerized Sewing Thread in matching colors, or Best Six Cord in white

Directions for Cutting:

1 piece — 18″ x 36″
2 pieces — 7″ x 17 1/2″

Directions for Making:
(1/2″ allowed for seams)

1. Place 7″ x 17 1/2″ pieces (top section) wrong sides together.
2. To shape top edge, place a hanger along edge, draw around outside curve and cut along outline.
3. Cut one piece in half up the center and hem cut edges 1/4″ and press.
4. Baste the 2 small pieces against the one whole piece, right sides together, and stitch across the top and down the sides, turn to right side and press.
5. To make bag section, stitch selvage edges of 18″ x 36″ piece together (right sides together) to within 6″ from top edge and press.
6. With selvage seam at center front, stitch across bottom edge, turn to right side and press.
7. Gather top edge of bag section.
8. Baste and stitch top section to bag section, raw edge to raw edge (right sides together).
9. Baste and stitch both edges of bias trim across front 3″ from top edge and repeat this over seam line, allowing 10″ to extend at each side of center opening for ties.
10. To finish ties, top stitch 10″ of bias to wrong side of each tie. Insert hanger.

Source: J. & P. Coats Gift Bazaar Sewing Suggestions (1944

Shamrock Pincushion: {Free Pattern}

Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 05:33

Here is a cute craft to make

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shamrock pincushion

This pin cushion can be made in a short time from a few small pieces of felt. The model is red and black with a green shamrock; however, other combinations can be used.

Click Picture To Download Free Pattern

• Cut 2 circles from black felt for top and bottom, the shamrock and the side piece from green.
• Applique the shamrock to top section.
• Sew a red button in center of shamrock.
• Cut a strip of felt 1 x 8 3/4 inches for side, sew one edge of side section to top circle, the other edge to bottom circle.
• Cut a circle of cardboard slightly smaller than the bottom section and place in bottom of cushion, stuff with cotton or kapok.

Source: The Workbasket (1952)

Sock Sack Tutorial oh so cute!

Posted on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 09:18

This is so cute and you can use it for so many things.. This would also make a great gift..

Got the linkhere

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FREE PDF Sewing Pattern Donwload – Easy Lunch Tote

Posted on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 06:24

I just love totes..Ray has two for his snacks and I'm going to try to make one..

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Hope you all had a good weekend. I have a FREE PDF sewing pattern download to share with you yay! You might have already noticed it from the right column of my blog but I thought I would properly write about it.

For me, time is money. This means that my lunch is often shoved into a plastic bag last minute before I leave home. It has come to a point that I really needed a nice bag that I can quickly put my lunch in it and grab and go out.

I won’t bore you with too much mechanics of this bag. Though if I were to mention just one thing about this bag is the contrasting wide gusset which allows you to put a fairly large Tupper Ware (which has your yummy lunch in it). I have used Colourful Japanese Fans (natural) fabric (quick because I only have 1 yard left of this fabric) and light loft fusible fleece.

You can download the pattern directly by clicking the thumbnail below or from here. Enjoy!

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