Vintage Tutorials
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Tutorial: How to Make 1950s Style Beaded Earrings
Anyone who likes to browse antique shops will recognize the popular bead cluster earrings from the 1950s. Often part of a matching set, they have a quintessential mid-century look. Because of their size and bulk, many of them are clip-ons… Continue reading
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Tutorial: Make a Vintage Style Double Strand Faux Pearl Necklace
Ever had a hard time finding exactly the right color and length of pearls to wear with your vintage outfits? (Or anytime, for that matter.) Today I am going to show you how to make a double strand of pearls,… Continue reading
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November Tutorial – Show and Tell with a Vintage Sewing Tool
I can't bring you a proper tutorial this month, since we are right in the middle of another move. (Boxes of fabric? And how!) So instead, I'm going to do a Show and Tell with one of my new sewing… Continue reading
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August Tutorial – Make Your Own 1940s Seamed Nylons
This month's tutorial is courtesy of my sister Elsie, who came up with the idea and did the models. One must for authentic 1940s costumes are seamed nylons, since stockings then were made with a seam up the back.… Continue reading
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April Tutorial – Revamped Original 1940s Crochet Hat Pattern
Springtime and Easter means time for new, shady hats! You can often find lovely ones in antique stores and online, and sometimes in thrift stores if you're lucky. But how handy it is to make your own! Some time… Continue reading
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January Tutorial – How to Make a Pashmina Shawl into a 1930s Evening Wrap
My apologies for a week's delay of this tutorial! But it was fairly labor-intensive and I simply couldn't squeeze the time for it among the self-imposed deadline of sewing for an event. Here it is now! A while… Continue reading
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November Tutorial – Changing Vintage Earrings to Shoe Clips
Sometimes you can find great vintage earrings that you don't want to wear as earrings. These clip-on rhinestones were too large for me, but they were the perfect size for glitzy shoe clips. Of course shoe clips can be clipped… Continue reading
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October Tutorial – Converting Vintage Clip-on Earrings
This month I'm going to show you how to convert clip-on earrings to pierced. This process is quite easy and perfect for those of us who don't wear clip-ons but love vintage earrings which are almost always clip-on. There are… Continue reading
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May Tutorial – How to Make a 1930s Tilt Hat from a Plain Wool Beret
I love hats with lots of style, especially tilt hats from the 1930s and '40s. Unfortunately, most times they are the most expensive to buy because the seller, even if he or she doesn't know what they are worth, think… Continue reading
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March Tutorial – Week Two – Dyeing Vintage Accessories
Partly because March is craft month, and partly because of spring air or something that gave me lots of ideas, I'm doing a Tutorial Blast this month, with a new and different tutorial every week instead of just the first… Continue reading
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