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Join me for a Twirl in Time! I'm Victoria, a self-taught sewist, vintage fashion enthusiast and maker of things! Come along with me on my sewing, restoring and making journey. Subscribe for vintage fashion nerd-outs, 1950s-1960s inspired sewing and décor, thrift flips, vintage sewing techniques and making quality clothing for everyday wear.
Trust me when I say you're never too old for dress up. Never.
#vintagefashionnotvintagevalues #vintage #sewing #vintagesewing #vintagefashion #1950s
Trust me when I say you're never too old for dress up. Never.
#vintagefashionnotvintagevalues #vintage #sewing #vintagesewing #vintagefashion #1950s
Vintage Swimsuit from a Dress Pattern: Part 2
Are you ready for Part 2?? If you missed Part 1, go back and give it a watch. In this episode I’ll be glazing over the sewing construction details of my 1950s inspired bathing suit for the Peg City Pinup Pageant! The swimsuit is based on a 1956 Miriam Martin dress pattern, and turns out: Yes, you CAN turn a dress pattern into a swimsuit (if you’re so inclined).
If you’ve seen Part 1, get ready for all the good stuff including the big reveal, clips of the pageant weekend, and more! Stay to the end to see how I did!
I'd like to give a huge shoutout to my friend Mila for all her help backstage and my partner Pat for always being my biggest supporter. Also shout out to all my competitors for making this year's competition so fierce. Everyone brought their A-game, and it was so great to see. I can hardly wait for next year's Pageant!
Let me know in the comments if you like this two-part series format. I read each and every one of your comments and they mean so much to me. Thanks for watching and don’t forget to subscribe for more!
You can find me on Instagram @TwirlInTime and stay up to date on the Peg City Pinup Pageant @PegCityPinups
Cover Photo by the lovely Syrosie Photos, @syrosiephotos
#pinup #vintage #vintagesewing #Seamstress #swimsuit #bathingsuit #1950s #vintagefashion #fiftiesfashion #vintagefashionnotvintagevalues #sewing #Sewalong #MiriamMartin #sewvintage #Pageant #PinupPageant #vintagePageant #TattooShow #AlternativeBeautyPageant
If you’ve seen Part 1, get ready for all the good stuff including the big reveal, clips of the pageant weekend, and more! Stay to the end to see how I did!
I'd like to give a huge shoutout to my friend Mila for all her help backstage and my partner Pat for always being my biggest supporter. Also shout out to all my competitors for making this year's competition so fierce. Everyone brought their A-game, and it was so great to see. I can hardly wait for next year's Pageant!
Let me know in the comments if you like this two-part series format. I read each and every one of your comments and they mean so much to me. Thanks for watching and don’t forget to subscribe for more!
You can find me on Instagram @TwirlInTime and stay up to date on the Peg City Pinup Pageant @PegCityPinups
Cover Photo by the lovely Syrosie Photos, @syrosiephotos
#pinup #vintage #vintagesewing #Seamstress #swimsuit #bathingsuit #1950s #vintagefashion #fiftiesfashion #vintagefashionnotvintagevalues #sewing #Sewalong #MiriamMartin #sewvintage #Pageant #PinupPageant #vintagePageant #TattooShow #AlternativeBeautyPageant
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In preparation for the 2024 Peg City Pin-up Pageant I’m making a 1950s bathing suit! I’m up sewing creek without a pattern (yikes, that one didn’t make the final cut for this video, but had to share). I’m super excited to take part in my first ever Pin up pageant and of course I’m sewing as many of my vintage-inspired items as I can. This bathing suit is made from non-stretch fabric (send thoug...
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Vintage Christmas Tablecloth Dress
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Hello TH-cam land! I'm excited to launch my first ever sewing video. I've been sewing for years and finally made the leap to record my process. I hope you enjoy watching me transform a vintage Christmas tablecloth into a holiday dress. I'll take you step by step as I hurry to finish it before the holiday parties begin! Is this a Christmas video launching in February? Yes, yes it is. But think o...
Please also make a video of the black dress!
I hadnt thought of combining the patterns from the dress books. Mind blown
Excellent work 😊😊
I bought a 1940s suit that fit my exact measurements. It had underarm gussets and the freedom of movement was AMAZING.
I got ballpoint pen ink out of cotton with rubbing alcohol. Not sure if that would work on your silky lining but thought I'd mention it.
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What do you have underneath the dress to make it poof up?
You have a new subscriber!
Congrats!!
Dress and swing coat coming up?
Oh a swing coat!! That’s a great idea!
Nice! 😊
That fabric is gorgeous 🤩
Thank you! I couldn’t resist a big floral print! 😅
Adorable 😊
Wow yes please show how to make the hat…
Beautiful. How did you find the hat to match. Do you find a lot of your clothes and goodwill .. love your style 😊
have a great time!❤😊
the dress is adorable, what pattern number is the dress you are wearing . you are so inspirational. thank you for sharing.
Hi there! Thanks for watching! The dress I’m wearing in the cover image is butterick B6556, it’s one of my favourites!
Oh the pleats in the back of that white and blue floral masterpiece! Takes my breath away.
Thank you! She’s from Heart My Closet Clothing! I highly recommend them 💙
I just love Gertie. I like how they can interchange sleeves and collars
Yes! Her patterns are so versatile! Thanks for watching 🤗
Оригинально. 👍🌹
freshen the ironing board with some vinegar in a spray bottle. chamomile tea also works.
I absolutely love your videos. You have a fabulous quirky personality and an infectious smile. Add to that your love of 1950’s dressing and I am a huge fan ☺️
Although I hate thinking about Christmas in July, I'm glad I watched the video. The pattern placement on the fabric's print is perfection. What a success!
Congratulations!! Loved the swimsuit.❤️
Yay I’m glad! Thanks for watching! 🤗
Live in Florida and I like wearing dresses instead of shorts also.
Yay! I’m happy to hear I’m not the only one!
Awesome dress!
Thank you! And thanks for watching! 🤗
The flowers in your hair really brought the final outfit together 😊 the bathing suit turned out perfect ❤
Thank you so much! I made the floral headpiece with just silk flowers from the craft store, some duck-bill clips and a glue gun. I’m hooked haha
Your work is so thorough. The attention to detail certainly paid off!
Thank you so much! In a world that’s obsessed with 30-second instant gratification, it means so much to hear that the time and effort it takes to make something great is noticed and appreciated 🥹
As far as I'm concerned this is how bathers should be! So chic!
I think so too!
Your overall concept and style of your channel is lovely, charming and pretty much pitch perfect for what you are doing. Well done!
That means so much to me! Thanks so much for watching 💕
Congratulations 🎉 I don’t mind series videos at all. Love how you show the tricky parts of sewing and problem solving. 😊
Yay thank you! Sewing is half problem solving, so I’m glad to hear you enjoy it! Thanks for watching!
Amazing. Waaaay to advanced for me so I salute you! Sewing is such an adventure ❤
It sure is! But I’m sure you can do it too, just make lots of mock ups and lots of mistakes. That’s the path to making something great!
Wow! your dedication to making your swim suit is admirable! Congratulations on the win!
Thank you so much!
congratulations - soooo exciting! loved seeing the behind the scenes ❤️
Yay! Thanks Ambrien!! 💕
Your swim suit came out great! :) You looked lovely. Congrats. :)
Aww thank you! Thanks for watching 🎉
Congrats Queen!!! We have those padgents here in Az … my friend wins lots
Thank you!! I’d love to live somewhere with more pageants, maybe someday I’ll travel for one 👀
Eeek soo excited and proud for you! Love the swimsuit ❤
Thank yoooouu!! Thanks for watching 🎉
Congratulations 🎉!!!! Youre super talented ❤
Aww! Thank you so much!!
I'm so relieved to hear someone else say: "I don't know what I'm doooing!" I say it multiple times each time I sew. :P Suppose, I actually don't know what I'm doing most of the time. That bathing suit looks amazing!
Hahaha no way! Sewing is all problem solving, so not knowing what you’re doing is part of the fun! (And makes the finished product so rewarding, it proves that little doubting voice wrong!) you’ve got this!!
Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm round of applause for Miss Elizabeth Taylor!! (You're not a blond, so I can't really make a Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield reference lol) Congrats on the win! That's impressive! And I so love that instead of all the high-end stuff available in Winterpeg, you ordered good ol' McD's to celebrate lol I was in there about three weeks ago (doc appointment for my better half, so we took advantage of being in town to go shopping afterwards since EVERYTHING is significantly cheaper in Winterpeg than out here in No-Man's Land), and it took three clerks 15 full minutes to punch up the bill when we were done at Fabricland lol about the only thing I didn't come home with (for which I'm now kicking myself repeatedly) was the bridal silk standing beside the cutting table, sensuously calling my name. (And of course my wife discovered her new old obsession with buttons, too, so that didn't help matters any.) I probably should have wedged that crowbar into my wallet a little harder and gotten some, but with most of my excess cash still running around the pen behind the barn (and what I had left already earmarked for various items around the farm (like seed, fertilizer, fuel, new bulls, children (geez, they're getting expensive these days lol), new/more fruit trees, etc etc)), I figured the banker might be a little irritable about having to remind me (again) about the virtues of not exceeding my account limits without previously informing her of an impending expense of such luxury and largess. Usually when that happens there's a small-ish mushroom cloud that appears over top of the bank that I can see from home, and I'm 15 miles outta town. But we did get some linen, and it's now stored behind an electrified chain-link fence topped with razor wire to keep it outta the hands of the kidlets (ok, maybe not THAT much security, but it is hiding until I get around to making some summer dresses for my better half and the girls for wandering around the gardens and the orchards, like they're living in England in 1458, and not modern-day south-central Manitoba). If I had an extra field this year, I'd plant some flax in which they could frolic for pictures, but alas, they'll have to make do this year with Grandpa's garden sunflowers, if they're not 19 feet tall again.
Cute cute cute❤
Thank you! And thanks for watching!
roflmao "I'm all about confusing historians" Best line I've heard this year yet lol My favorite material for mock-ups are old bedsheets, which you can usually source at the thrift store for pennies on the dollar. And every time I hear someone say they should've read the instructions, I'm reminded of an old Dennis The Menace cartoon where he's standing in front of his father holding a broken toy going "But Dad, I READ the destructions!" Don't worry, we've all sewed something in backwards, upside down, and/or both lol I did that about half a dozen times with the cups on the first couple bras I made my wife back when I was re-learning how to sew (talk about jumping off the deep end, eh? I had little choice when she walked in one day, ripped her bra off, balled it up, hurled it at the garbage can, bouncing it off the rim, the buffet, the wall, the dog and a passing child and landing it back in the garbage can, yelling "I HATE THIS THING!!!", to which my response was "Hello, TH-cam Polytechnic? I'd like to enroll in your lingerie construction courses, please"). I was beginning to think I was gonna have to go back and retake all my algebra and trigonometry if I didn't figure out what I was doing wrong in a hurry lol But it all worked out eventually (I'm thinking starting off with the burrito method wasn't the best choice for a newbie), and now that she's back at a stable size again (post-surgery hormone issues, sadly), I can start making her some more again, and maybe even a dress or two (if she can find a pattern she likes, that is, or else I'm gonna have to kit-bash several patterns into one somehow, and the conversation for that particular endeavor usually goes something like this: Her: "Honey, what do you think of these trumpet sleeves with that bodice?" Me: "Trumpet sleeves? You stiffen that one end, and John Phillip Sousa's gonna crawl outta his grave to start playing 'Hail The Conquering Hero' with 'em!" Her: "But they look so cute like that!" Me: "Cute??? CUTE???!!! You start waving at someone with sleeves like that and Environment Canada's gonna be issuing a tornado warning in about five minutes!! Those things are so big we're gonna have to mortgage one of the children to get enough material to make 'em!!" Her: "But they're so cute I'm just gonna die without them!!!" Me: "You're gonna die WITH them if you walk outside on a windy day. Chances are a strong breeze would pick you up and carry you through the air and drop you on the other side of the Red!! Catch a good breeze on this side of Lake Manitoba, and you could hydroplane across the lake all the way to your folks' place! All you'd have to do is tie your shoe laces to the bottom of the bell on those sleeves and wear a set of water skis!" (Ok, ok, maybe not THAT dramatic, but you get the point lol)). Geez, I need a vacation. I'm starting to sound like Statler & Waldorf and Patrick F. MacManus again lol All that being said, I do like that pattern and the modifications you made to it. That should make a great bathing suit, and if you really wanted to top off the outfit, a kerchief made out of the same material would likely crown it right off. (It'd look even better behind the wheel of a '56 Corvette convertible, but they might object to the use of a vehicle on the runway lol though it'd be quite the sight at the local show n shine at Pony Corral, if it's still around, that is)
You did so well pattern matching! It really is hard with so many curves and small pattern. Love it ❤
Thank you! I did my best and glad it worked out! Thanks for watching 🤗
Your dress is amazingly beautiful ❤
Thank you! 😊
I'm an instant fan. I binge-watched all your videos. Your quirky smile and style bring so much joy. Thanks! ❤
Awww that’s so nice! Thanks for watching!
Well done! Love watching your vintage style. Part 1, 2, 3 or however many you need to go through to get the finish you want on a garment is welcome. I love the journey :D. The swim suit was sooo cooool, and dedication to stripes! Loved it!
Aww thank you!! I’m glad you enjoy the journey!! Thanks for watching 🎉
Yes to packing vintage video!
Deal! I’m going to Europe soon and a packing video is on my list!
The “dress” bathing suit turned out amazing. 😻 congratulations 👑👑👑
Thank you so much! 🤗
Oh my gosh congratulations!!
Thank you!! 😊
Congratulations!! 🎉
Thank you!! 🎉