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Lace I can't resist lace, the nice soft cotton or rayon lace. linen and cotton men's and ladies clothes, and sheets. I also look for books. Any book on sewing, or embroidery,I love the way my grandmother taught. The reasoning behind it and the fact that she thought that your time and the expense of the fabric ment that you did your best. No fast fashion, it was made, mended and used until it couldn't be used for that purpose, then you refashioned, madea quilt, or used for some other purpose. I wish we were taught that way now . She also taught me to use the best I could afford, not to use the cheapest because I wouldn't care if I messed up and I needed to care. Sorry on my soap box again. And yes it would be nice to see how to made the Riding pants from the book. I know it will be different from some other ways of doing things. Thank you for showing us your haul. It was wonderful. Do you ever just get the laces out and stroke them dreaming of ways to use them or am I the only one?
Here’s my vote for heck yes to do the riding breeches! Omg that would be an amazing video, especially since I am lost when it comes to pattern drafting.
Please do a breeches making video! That's really cool that it's drafted from one's measurements. I'd love a pair of those to do vintage outdoors-y things in!
“Call me a weirdo.” And the rest of us ooo-ing and ah-ing over all that lace!! So wonderful, wonderful, wonderful to have you gush over your purchases and gifts. It’s a gift to us as well! And yes to the jodphur tutorial!
I haven't even watched the video yet. Saw the promised of the lace trimming and inserts. I LOVE finding those things at the thrift shops. Been collecting for years. And, btw, I hope you take this the right way, from an old lady: you, young lady, are just so darn cute. It's nice when I see your smiling face in my YT feed. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Keep going... Thank you!
Awww thanks so much for the kind words 😚 I know, wait to see all the lace! Most of it was graciously gifted, I can't wait to use it!! Do you use yours? Or just hoard it? (Both acceptable answers to me 😄!)
Evelyn Wood I both hoard and use! I use mostly on home decor, a trim here, a trim there. I make huck embroidery towels for our kitchen and bath; I like to use the cotton trims for the bottom edge. There is usually enough trim for at least one towel. I used to make my clothes (50 years ago), but got out of the habit. I would love to start again, and use the pretty trims. But, being on a farm, my time in the sewing room is mostly repair work, and some quilt piecing. Right now on the North, we are in the midst of the harvest, so I don't have a lot of energy left to go down to the sewing room. But it does make me happy (my DH husband calls it my "happy place") and I should MAKE the time to spend there. Like you, I love just *looking* at the laces. I may go do that this evening! Years ago a friend gave me boxes of her grandmother's hand-made cotton doilies. She said, "I know you will cherish them and appreciate them." And I do. I use them during the winter on tables and the backs of some chairs. Best wishes to you, Evelyn.
I'm in VIC Australia lockdown. Zero opshopping for months!! Thanks for sharing seeing pretties helps the withdrawals😉😽 Also love the change intro to sewing friends very inclusive xx
While i love all your videos, i find these haul videos particularly fascinating as we get to see what catches your eye. And the box of lace was definitely a heart-stopper!!!!!!! As for future videos, yes, PLEASE teach up pattern drafting a pair of riding breeches, and maybe you’ll show us a few tips you think of regarding the bath robes, please please? I know your plans are for the sewing school, but even a quick peek, maybe? Just love, love your channel - i find your optimistic demeanor so comforting as we here in america still struggle with the pandemic, political fears, you name it. Thank you for cheering us up!
Love the lace! I remember my great-grandmother making lace with pins and a pattern secured on a cushioned cloth bolt. I still have the bolt and wooden spindles used to weigh down the individual threads she intertwined and pinned!
When you mentioned that you needed to lower the waistline on that cute little white top, I flashed on using your wide eyelet for that new waistline. It looked about the right width plus you can thread the ribbon through the lace for your waist-gathering. Just a thought...
Great idea to grab anything linen or cotton to use or reuse as it is so hard to find anything 100% cotton or linen anymore ( that’s affordable...at least here in US) great video!
I really like watching these "haul" videos of yours. I especially like these because of the "sustainability" factor that you have embraced in your work (and life). I am always fascinated by the "refurbishing, rehabbing, repurposing, remaking.....all of the re"s" that are going on everywhere. We especially need more of this in the world now. Thanks for the video.
That slate blue color is particularly stunning on you! I love all the lace. I inherited what I believe to be handmade lace to trim pillow cases. two are a beautiful soft pink. All of them are in pairs, and the same length, which is why I think they were made for pillows. I take them out to pet them every so often, lol. One thing I cannot pass up when thrifting is a good silk scarf, particularly vintage Vera Neumann scarves. I wish I was more creative about wearing them. Evelyn, I do have one off topic request. Could you possibly do a tutorial on replacing a zipper in a pair of jeans? I am struggling to replace the zip in my son's favorite cargo shorts. Part of the problem was the zip was not put in as well as it should have been. But, I've watched a lot of tutorials, but they don't explain as well as you do. Thatnks for another enjoyable vid.
I have a blue tape measure like yours’. I used to get all my quilting things at estate sales, and sometimes at resale shops. I never thought about them.
I'm sooooo jealous!😝😂 All those beautiful precious things! I am absolutely with you! Just holding some of these things and just looking at them! I loooooove lace! And whenever I come across linen or silk or anything remotely lace like I pick it up! Sadly our charity shops don't sell sewing materials! My mother has a huge box of vintage lace which she say I'll inherit!😇🙌🌈 Go for it girl! Breeches sounds like fun! Oh and it's great you have a PO Box now coz I thought of sending you something a few times now!😊🌈
Summer is finally dying here, but a pinafore or house dress is still going to be nice to sit on the porch and work on one of the antique sewing machines that have followed me home in the last six months! I have a beautiful Jones machine that says “As provided to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra” in curling Gold with a hand crank so it will sew without a big treadle case!
Evelyn Wood I think I have 9 treadle (about $35 each) and 4 electric, including one that appears to be a pre 1900 that has been electrified. One of the treadle machines uses a full small spool of thread instead of a bobbin! This has meant that I have to find room for the four gorgeous cabinets. My housemate is threatening mayhem if I bring in any more. I am working on cleaning and oiling and making box bottoms for the ones missing their cases so they can be used much like today’s machines. Then I’m going to see about selling them again. It is interesting to see some of the prices people put on these old machines when there were literally millions made.
Really enjoyed this thrift haul. Always love to see people’s finds. 😍 Envious of the lace. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I would really enjoy “the breeches” making video. 🤗 Keep safe and well. Lynne
I bought a bag of hand crocheted lace from the 1890's (according to the note that was inside) from an estate sale. I couldn't NOT buy it for $6, but I am also kind of afraid to use it. I hope I can find the right project someday.
My favorite is the book. Looking forward for a series on how you draw the pattern and make the riding pants. I just found a cute straw hat, replaced the ribbon with removable sash and making a matching mask for our outdoor church services.
Old lace hoarder here! Tiny bits are great for embellishing doll clothing. They deserve excellence, too! What a wonderful haul/generous gift show and tell! Thank you for sharing the excitement of exploring all the potential future fun in your goodies!
Yes definitely make the pants! On another note, you are so good at knowing your materiels I'm guessing it comes with experience, but i would love a video about how to tell what a certain fabric is. Love thrifting as well but so often i don't know what the fabric actually is.
It was so fun watching you show your thrift store haul! The gift of laces was my favorite. I have a large 5 drawer dresser packed, but organized, full of lace and vintage hankies.I get so much joy looking through my drawers of lace but also love using it. I say yes to the breeches.
I live in the US and I've heard Yard Sale, Garage Sale, & Lawn Sale all used. Some people try to get fancy and call them Estate Sales, but it's not the same. There is a town-wide garage sale this weekend in the next town over from mine. Due to lockdown and whatnot, it's not as crazy as most years, but I did see a good number of stalls out, so mom & I are going to head out to see what we can find tomorrow. That Butterick 4200 is gorgeous!
Yes, please to the breeches pattern drafting and making. Your vintage hauls are inspiring, and remind me so much of the things I used to easily find more than thirty years ago here in the US. So many beautiful things. I am sure they are to be found still, I must just look harder. I remember thinking that fabric and notions just make the rounds from one stitcher’s home to the next. Once I showed a friend a lovely piece of cotton voile I found at a garage sale. She told me she had had a piece just like it once upon a time, sold it at a sale and mildly regretted it. We turned over the ticket attached to the fabric. There, in her handwriting, were her initials!
You're not weird for collecting lace. You are a connoisseur of the finer things in life. I would love to see the riding breeches done, I'm working on a bodice block to re-start my personal pattern collection.
Great haul! Interested in everything. Perhaps give a heads up to the school for a sew along. That way we can thrift the stuff we need ahead of time. Great video!
I have a lot of beautiful coloured. Vintage lace and,as you said, I'm too frightened to use them.I love just looking at them and my vintage buttons.Sadly,I don't have anyone with the same interests.I loved it when I was in art college ,forty nine years ago,when you were surrounded with people who had the same passion.Even if the medium and materials were different no one thought it odd that you would find such excitement and awe from an object or material.I'm so glad for your Chanel and love your hauls as I feel a kindred spirit. Yes please to your pattern drafting and making from an original pattern.I,also,have vintage sewing books and I love the feel and smell of them.It fascinates me that hundreds of years ago someone else with the same passion was reading the same book.
My notifications is not working for anyone since August 11. I have checked everything. BUT!!! Everyday I try to look for any of my favorite channels and make sure I don't miss a thing. Thank You for posting!! It was wonderful.. The lace is a haul to be Jealous over!
I bought a big mystery bag from a thrift shop a couple months back and it was mostly lace and I would love to know if it's vintage. Could you make a video on identifying vintage lace and mystery fabric scraps? I know you've made a video on identifying natural fabrics vs synthetics, so I guess my question is more about age/value? I've amassed a bit of a collection and I want to attempt cataloguing it all
This was such a great video, what a treasure all that lace is! I would LOVE to see a workshop on the robe turned house dress in VSS, EEK! I've had one in this gorgeous green and yellow plaid I've been saving for just this purpose waiting on my skills to grow as I learn from you there🤗🤗🤗 I've recently braved my favorite thrift stores lately and it's been SO NICE to get back out treasure hunting even if I can only stay in one for 10 minutes or so before my athsma kicks in from mask wearing🤷♀️ but seeing others vintage hauls helps me in between good days I can go out on my own lol.
Amazing finds! Absolutely love your videos! As a linen hoarder myself, can't leave any linen fabrics and garments behind at the thrift store. Such an underrated material.
Love your enthusiasm, love your haul, and that box of lace is fantastic. Enjoy your goodies! And linen is definitely in atm, it’ll be great for the warmer weather coming up.
I LOVE going to thrift and antique stores. I love searching through old linens as it is a great way to obtain antique fabrics. Sometimes you can find them quite cheap. I bought an old, soft linen napkin for one dollar . It is just thick enough that I plan to make a doll coat out of it. There is also the option of a crazy quilt (lap size so as not to get bogged down) or as you know the possibilities are endless. I also have a delightful stash of lace so I know what you're talking about in that category also. I really value your tips and enjoy your videos.
On thrifting, if you find something you like but can't think of a garment to fashion from it, you can always cut it into bias for trim on another garment - like an apron or neckline or make piping out of it and string ties or fabric belts with a vintage bakelite buckle.
I am a new viewer of your videos. I think the jodhpurs would be a great tutorial of how to think through a project, cast away your fear of the new and different and how to achieve a wearable garment from a flat pattern. I love that your presentations are not designed to stroke your own ego, but to inform and encourage your viewer. Your enthusiasm is delightful.
Great videos come from truly loving the subject. If you love the item you are making, it will be a great video. Looking forward to what you continue to produce.
I would love to see a video of you making the riding breeches. I’m still a beginner to intermediate sewist so it would be fascinating for me to see this process from beginning to end!
I enjoyed your fabric haul. I love thrift stores, but I have not been out to one since we have been dealing with Covid. Yesterday I escaped and went to a fabric store for sewing supplies, not fabric. I really understand the fear of using a precious piece of lace; I have some fabric like that. Of your "haul" I especially like anything with roses. When this time is over, if it ever is I will enjoy thrifting again.
I think the pattern idea is a wonderful idea. I have come across a few books and magazines (especially the ones from my great grandmother’s stash) that provide similar patterns and it would be great to see how you would go about doing it. I am so jealous of all of your new lace, as I am so much a lace girl. Happy sewing!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I have to cut some expenses, so I'm ending most of my monthly subscriptions and cutting down on my entertainment budget, but I could NOT pull myself to cut my Vintage Sewing School budget. It is invaluable. I'm glad to be there.
Yes Evelyn I do think it would be fun to see you make the riding pants it’s interesting to see from start to finish and I think I can learn by watching you do this. I am not a true seamstress but I have made a few things. I hope to watch soon thanks
I have been collecting vintage/antique lace for a long time. My mom bought me a vintage lace tea dress when I was 19 yrs old. She thought it would be a wonderful wedding dress, and for only $20 she bought it. Jump ahead many years...the dress was "as is" so I had to use a lot of my lace to fix it. I was so used to just hoarding and admiring all my laces that the thought of using them didn't occur to me. Finally my mom had to snap me out of it and say, "This is your wedding dress!" Yeah ok I guess I will use my beautiful laces on it.
I found my version of the world's best tape measure in France last year. Like yours you can start measuring from either end but mine only has centimetres (not common in Australia though we have been metric for 40 years) and one side is colour blocked at 10cm intervals. I love it so much I bought them as gifts for my sister and friend who are keen knitters.
By the way, there are colored plastic tape measures (blue, green, pink, etc.). Found this on Amazon but you can probably find them elsewhere: Akstore 6PCS Soft Tape Measures Double-Scale 60-Inch/150cm Soft Tape Measure Ruler Bulk for Sewing Tailor Cloth,Medical Measurement,Body Measurements (Multicolors). Unfortunately, they don't have the in/cm on both sides.
Hello Evelyn, I like you very much and I think you put on a good show. I bought a industrial walking foot machine to reupholster my truck seats. I watch you to help me familiarize myself with sewing. I also have a Fpaff walking foot more for garments. Jane been busy hemming up my work pants. Can't seem to ever find pants my size. I very much want to thank you for all you dou and for your cheerful nature. David Hill from Washington state USA.
Small bits of lace suggestions: tops of pocket decoration, stomacher/bodice panels, hat bands, small bows on under garments, behind cut outs(reverse of appliqué), small flower bouquets.. . .
I'm quite jealous right now, especially of all that lovely lace! Sadly my nearby second hand store is currently closed due to COVID, so I can only thrift online. It's just not the same. 😞
Sadly, there are very few thrift shops where I live, but I keep my eyes open and occasionally things turn up in some other way. Linen's my favourite fabric: I have antique table linens which I inherited, and now need to mend a few holes. Will be going to your mending video to remind myself how to darn (after getting my daughter to send me linen thread across 8,000 miles!).
My favourite of this haul is the eyelet top at about 7:30 on the video. So cute and summery. I'd love to see you make the riding breeches - maybe you could do them as a series
Ooh! Lovely haul! I adore all your new bits and pieces so much. I was wondering if your dressing gowns are that old brand Smartex? I must admit, I’ve got a few. My latest one is a larger men’s in a striped pure wool. It’s huge and warm and has lovely deep pockets ❤️❤️
I am amazed at your finds and am quite jealous. Here, the UK went in for fast fashion in a big way; hence, charity shops are full of cheap and nasty things, mostly polyester, from the recent past. Another thing, most high street charity shops are quite corporate, and more and more are filling their shops with horrible mass-produced trinkets from far-Eastern sweat shops. I have a feeling that when they are sorting their donations, the type of older things that people like us would love, are tossed away in favour of a trendy-looking dress from Primark.
The charity shops make money by selling on to secondhand clothing companies who sort, grade and send overseas, although they also sell some of the vintage clothing back to UK shops. I have seen yarn in charity shops but not noticed sewing supplies.
Would love to see the video of drafting the vintage riding breeches pattern, plus sewing them up. Love all your tutorials, they are full of useful information and tips but most of all, inspiration.
The charity shops here in UK have opened again now but there are always large queues outside. I can't wait to go in and have a browse though they don't seem to think old sewing things are saleable!!!
Love the vintage patterns and trims! Finally back to sewing this week. Its my happy place and I need to remember this. I'm working on a sun dress from a 70s pattern right now.
First, please make the video Evelyn ! Great to see all those things. Love lace though I never wear it.I really should. Must plan some in. I am u.k. too, and where I am there are a few tiny charity shops, and nothing much in them at this time. But that's how it goes. Thanks for showing all those things, loved them.
