Tuesday 27 December 2011

Grand plans....

Grand plans to sew something...let's see if it eventuates.  I have shown a close up of the little pattern above not because it is the one-most-likely, but because it's way more special than the others.   It is neither a ubiquitous Butterick nor a Simplicity but a Weigel's.  Most locals wouldn't know that for almost one hundred years Melbourne had its very own brand of sewing patterns.  They and Madame Weigel's Journal of Fashion were the first to give those in the colonies the opportunity to look as fashionable as their cousins in Europe.  And to think that for much of that time these little treasures were meticulously designed, cut and folded only a couple of streets away from where I live in Richmond!
More lovely Weigel's patterns here.

2 comments:

sister outlaws said...

Ooh! I like all of those patterns - am rather taken with the McCalls 5285 kaftan!But I love a shirt style dress too and the style dress in the bottom right hand corner. My Summer sewing plans still haven't eventuated...but there's still time...

Sandra Eterovic said...

Good morning Julianne! I am very pleased that you like my patterns, it spurs me on to actually make something! They are the result of many years of collecting, starting at the op shop in Cheltenham to Etsy and Lost and Found in Collingwood more recently. :)