Diane, your attention to detail is awesome! I love how you find ways to color coordinate facing pages and pull the theme through it all! That’s such a pro quality! Thank you for spending time to show us! I’m ok with your quiet videos. I totally understand! ❤
I love it when you do sewing pattern journals 🎉 i really enjoy the way you make the ephemera from all the clippings from old magazines and sewing patterns 🎉❤
I love spritz cookies! I think I need to get out my cookie press now since you mentioned them. I think these journals are looking just wonderful! I love everything you're doing...making each one so special!
Ouuu, that darling image of that little girl on that orange pattern cover was so cute🥰. I had to look up the term guimp😅 That pattern was stamped 1908. You must truly be the Queen of really, vintage ephemera, Diane. ❤ I really like those dry cleaning tickets too. I had a nice Pampered Chef cookie press for YEARS and never used it. It was given to me. They were really expensive, like all those home party sales. I would think kids would enjoy watching that yummy dough squeezed through making those pretty shaped cookies. Wonderful idea to make ahead and freeze. 😊
I had a pampered chef cookie press, too, and never had much luck with it. I finally found an old aluminum Mirro one like my mother used at an antique store. It works the best!
Hi, Diane. Love your journals and I really want to make of these. However, can you share where we can get the pattern covers and the stamps? Thanks for sharing your videos 😍
I saw this thumbnail and had to get a closer look. The outfit on the right, the wrap around, looked so very familiar to me. Do you know what year that came out ? I sure think my mother made something like that or that for me. I very slightly remember wrapping into it. It does remind me a tad of another outfit she made, had a high slightly gathered bodice, sleeveless and tied at the shoulders. One of my faves. If ever you might run across that pattern, how I would love to know! I apologize bc I fast forwarded through the video to see if you had anything on it. I could have missed it. But I’ll come back asap and watch this and the previous one! So many of the patterns remind me of sitting in the fabric store at a tall, tilted counter with HUGE Butterick or McCall’s pattern books. Had to have high stools to sit on. The fragrance and sometimes dust, I guess, from the fabrics was so welcoming. I was told I tended to pick patterns by the models’ hairstyles but I didn’t think I did. Towards mid summer we made the trip to the fabric stores for the winter school year “wardrobe”. Never had too many outfits and never too few. Same with shoes. Simpler times. 😌 and some good memories there too. Yep. A stroll down memory lane happened again!! Who knows what I’ll come up with when I watch the video!! ❤❤❤❤
I'm enjoying reading your comments on these videos! Your mother must have been a wonderful seamstress! So was my mother. she made a long, hooded wool coat for me when I was a teen. My favorite coat EVER! She made the 70s lounge suits for my Dad. Is that what they were called? Polyester. Anyway, the wrap around dress image came from one of those giant pattern books (counter catalog). I had 2 from the early 70s. 74 and 75, I think. I also have one from the 60s, but this image is from the 70s.
@DianeHubertPrettyPinkCottage thank you. I'm glad you enjoy reading my comments. I too had a midi coat - I think a suede like fabric with trim then deep wooly like cuffs, hood trim and hem line. I have one picture of it. It was a fave too. Sounds like our mothers were similarly talented seamstresses.
Adding to earlier thoughts after watching “Let’s Go Through My Sewing Journal Supplies…). The order of pattern buying back in the day was Simplicity, McCall’s, Butterick if we can’t find something in the first two which was similar and very very rarely Vogue. It was the cost of the patterns and I think the quantity of patterns in each one. Definitely the pattern cost. Back then, when the first ones might have been $2 the Vogue patterns were probably $4? I don’t recall precisely. That was a LONG time ago, say, 1972-1974 when I paid attention to that instead of just “put that one back”. 😂❤
Beautiful ephemera! Love seeing the sewing pattern ephemera you make!
Fabulous sewing journal Diane, you always knock it out of the park. Thanks for sharing, big hugs 🥰❣
Diane, your attention to detail is awesome! I love how you find ways to color coordinate facing pages and pull the theme through it all! That’s such a pro quality! Thank you for spending time to show us! I’m ok with your quiet videos. I totally understand! ❤
Thank you for your kind words!
I love it when you do sewing pattern journals 🎉 i really enjoy the way you make the ephemera from all the clippings from old magazines and sewing patterns 🎉❤
Thank you. I enjoy making ephemera from old magazine and book images! Makes the journals unique!
I love spritz cookies! I think I need to get out my cookie press now since you mentioned them. I think these journals are looking just wonderful! I love everything you're doing...making each one so special!
We make Spritz every Christmas!
Love these sewing journals! They are on my list of journals to do!!!
Love the stamps!! I like it when you talk a lot on your videos. 😊
Ouuu, that darling image of that little girl on that orange pattern cover was so cute🥰. I had to look up the term guimp😅
That pattern was stamped 1908. You must truly be the Queen of really, vintage ephemera, Diane. ❤
I really like those dry cleaning tickets too.
I had a nice Pampered Chef cookie press for YEARS and never used it. It was given to me. They were really expensive, like all those home party sales. I would think kids would enjoy watching that yummy dough squeezed through making those pretty shaped cookies. Wonderful idea to make ahead and freeze. 😊
I had a pampered chef cookie press, too, and never had much luck with it. I finally found an old aluminum Mirro one like my mother used at an antique store. It works the best!
Love your videos
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Hi, Diane. Love your journals and I really want to make of these. However, can you share where we can get the pattern covers and the stamps? Thanks for sharing your videos 😍
Thank you Janet. I buy the old patterns at flea markets and estate sales.
I saw this thumbnail and had to get a closer look. The outfit on the right, the wrap around, looked so very familiar to me. Do you know what year that came out ? I sure think my mother made something like that or that for me. I very slightly remember wrapping into it. It does remind me a tad of another outfit she made, had a high slightly gathered bodice, sleeveless and tied at the shoulders. One of my faves. If ever you might run across that pattern, how I would love to know!
I apologize bc I fast forwarded through the video to see if you had anything on it. I could have missed it. But I’ll come back asap and watch this and the previous one!
So many of the patterns remind me of sitting in the fabric store at a tall, tilted counter with HUGE Butterick or McCall’s pattern books. Had to have high stools to sit on. The fragrance and sometimes dust, I guess, from the fabrics was so welcoming. I was told I tended to pick patterns by the models’ hairstyles but I didn’t think I did.
Towards mid summer we made the trip to the fabric stores for the winter school year “wardrobe”. Never had too many outfits and never too few. Same with shoes. Simpler times. 😌 and some good memories there too.
Yep. A stroll down memory lane happened again!! Who knows what I’ll come up with when I watch the video!! ❤❤❤❤
I'm enjoying reading your comments on these videos! Your mother must have been a wonderful seamstress! So was my mother. she made a long, hooded wool coat for me when I was a teen. My favorite coat EVER! She made the 70s lounge suits for my Dad. Is that what they were called? Polyester.
Anyway, the wrap around dress image came from one of those giant pattern books (counter catalog). I had 2 from the early 70s. 74 and 75, I think. I also have one from the 60s, but this image is from the 70s.
@DianeHubertPrettyPinkCottage thank you. I'm glad you enjoy reading my comments. I too had a midi coat - I think a suede like fabric with trim then deep wooly like cuffs, hood trim and hem line. I have one picture of it. It was a fave too. Sounds like our mothers were similarly talented seamstresses.
Adding to earlier thoughts after watching “Let’s Go Through My Sewing Journal Supplies…).
The order of pattern buying back in the day was Simplicity, McCall’s, Butterick if we can’t find something in the first two which was similar and very very rarely Vogue. It was the cost of the patterns and I think the quantity of patterns in each one. Definitely the pattern cost. Back then, when the first ones might have been $2 the Vogue patterns were probably $4? I don’t recall precisely. That was a LONG time ago, say, 1972-1974 when I paid attention to that instead of just “put that one back”. 😂❤
Interesting. My favorites were the Butterick, but I only bought them when Joann had them on a good sale: $2 or 3.
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