Category: Make&Mend
How to make a “Let’s Go To Vegas” cardigan
This fab tutorial on how to give a cardigan a Las Vegas spin comes from brilliant vintage blogger Charlotte over at Tuppence Ha’Penny. Here she shows us how to applique a cardigan with playing cards. You will need: - red felt remnant - white felt remnant - red sewing thread – white sewing thread - cardigan or sweater - freezer [...]
Make do and mend special: resizing T-shirts with ‘Cut out + Keep’
Vintage shops are full of great men’s Seventies T-shirts, which would be perfect to add a bit of vintage cool to our summer outfits, if only they weren’t a few sizes too big. QueensOfVintage.com has teamed up with amazing craft site ‘Cut Out + Keep’ to show you how to quickly turn a baggy thrifted [...]
Make do and mend: How to use a pattern sheet
If there’s one thing Jennfier Knox loves more than wearing vintage it’s making her own clothes using vintage patterns. Here she has a fantastic guide on how to use a pattern sheet to re-create your favourite looks.
Make do and mend a vintage dress into a maxi skirt
Vintage and charity shops are full of dresses with unflattering cuts. As long as you like the fabric though, they are still worth buying as our resident revamper, Lucy Housman, has come up with a pattern to turn them into Seventies inspired maxi dresses in a few quick and easy steps. The maxi skirt is such [...]
Get creative – reinvent your vintage
With the recession attempting to upset our seasonal wardrobe updates, it’s time to get creative with the clothes we already have. Laura Terry has five top tips to reinvent your clothes and help get your vintage wardrobe catwalk-ready for next season.
Give your old vintage shelves a DIY makeover
Browsing junk shops, antiques markets, and car boot sales, you may be forgiven for never giving that tatty trunk or battered old wardrobe a second glance, but perhaps it’s time you looked again. Within those shabby shelves hides a wealth of restoration possibilities too good to pass by. Tara Gardner explains how you can give [...]
