If you’ve followed me for a while you have seen my progress through learning to sew and then creating vintage outfits through the years. Looking back, it’s been about 4 years since I began going down this rabbit hole and loving it more and more.
I’ve always loved vintage style, I remember buying colorful tights as a teenager to copy the 60s style, and I was the classics-obsessed bookworm reading all the period books and watching all the period dramas. But jumping from enjoying it visually to actually making and wearing vintage style, was quite a leap.
I think it’s one of the few good things that came out of the halt of the world we were hurled into in 2020. I suddenly had the time to try something I had been thinking of for a while. Being self-taught meant I made a lot of mistakes on the way, especially when it comes to learning to sew. I persevered because I had the chance and the inspiration, but also because in the end it scratched that itch in my brain for creativity and for vintage fashion.
I don’t wear vintage every day (that’s something I admire from creators like Sewrena!) But I still enjoy making and wearing from vintage patterns while I can. My full journey and some patterns I used are on the video below!
The Knit Yorker 