Vintage Patterns - Blogs of Interest

I love vintage patterns! One of my favorite blogs is A Few Loose Threads, and she is vintage pattern ga-ga! Recently she posted about the illustrations on the cover of patterns. The illustrations do seem to show you what's inside, but she found they do not do the pattern justice.

See it Sewn is a new chapter on her blog. It's well worth a visit.

The First Sew it Sewn post  and The Second One

This isn't a long post, I just wanted to share this blog with you.

My sewing room looks like a tornado came through as I work on a few projects at once. :)

More sewing adventures later!
Karen

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