VINTAGE PATTERNS!

At daisyfleur, we like to use vintage patterns for alot of our dresses, particularly when sewing with the liberty fabrics. Some of our patterns date from the 1960s and 1970s. We get our patterns from various places - friends, etsy and e bay in particular. Here are some of our vintage patterns, followed by a selection of the dresses we have made using them.

This pattern dates from 1968, and the dress is from our daisyfleur shop on etsy!http://www.etsy.com/shop/daisyfleur

 

This is a pattern we use alot for our liberty dresses. It dates from 1978.  This dress, to fit a 9 month old baby is a gorgeous liberty fabric.

Here are two patterns from 1980, bought from one of our favourite etsy shops SewMeVintage. Underneath are two lovely liberty dresses for 6 month old babies.

 

Here is a gorgeous pinafore dress from a 1962 pattern. It is also available in pale blue. Both are to fit  a 6 month old baby.

All these dresses are available on our etsy shop at

http://www.etsy.com/shop/daisyfleur

Hooray! We've been featured!

We're so pleased and honoured to discover we have been featured in a treasury!
And to see lots of other lovely items made out of our favourite liberty fabrics.
Check it out below and follow the link to comment :o)

www.etsy.com/treasury/4db83c8321b96d919973707f/in-love-with-liberty

Baby headbands!

Here are some photos of our lovely headbands, hand made by Jenny. We are running a special promotion at our etsy shop - a free headband with every liberty dress purchased before the end of April!

Craft fair!

Here are some photos of our stall at a recent Craft Fair held at the Petwood Hotel in Woodhall Spa. We had a lovely day, and sold quite a few items. My Mum came too, so we had 3 generations on the stall!

daisyfleur at work!

At daisyfleur we like to sew together whenever we can - it gives us a chance to look at our new materials and choose the ones we need for our next project, work on similar patterns together and pass on sewing tips! We love all the liberty fabrics, as can be seen by the photos below, where we are choosing our favourites.

We have recently discovered a  new way of sewing together - we use skype! We both set up our laptops at an agreed time, and get busy with our sewing. The beauty of skype is that not only can we show each other how our work is progressing on the webcam, but can chat away for hours whilst we are cutting out and sewing, without the need to hold a phone! Our husbands have had to get used to hearing a familiar disembodied voice when they happen to enter the room! It is great fun.

The photos below show us working together.

New!! Introducing our new pink daisyfleur dress bags!!

I would like to introduce our new daisyfleur dress bags. They are pink, of course, and each bag is decorated with attractive motifs or trimming. All our dresses are now packed in these complimentary drawstring bags, which can be used to store all sorts of things such as shoes, ribbons or baby items.

Here are some photos of us packing dresses into these useful bags!!

Buttons, Haberdashery, Trims - these are a few of our favourite things.....

I don't know if we've mentioned to you how much we love buttons before but we are both avid collectors.  When I was a girl, I loved going through mum's button tin and matching together pairs or sorting buttons into groups by colour or style.  The noise of the button tin when I shook it was the initial excitement followed by many happy hours spent playing with the delights inside.  
As I got a little older, we used to use the buttons as currency whilst playing the card game "Black Widow" (also known as Black Maria) and my brother loved the big clumsy dark coat buttons whilst I strove to enhance my collection of 'loot' with tiny  pretty brightly coloured buttons and those spares I remembered from dresses I wore as a little girl handmade by mum.

We've recently found the most wonderful shop on etsy Overspill and I wanted to share a few of their lovely delights with you today.  I can guarantee they will soon be receiving a purchase from Daisyfleur......