Thank you so much! I think the daffodil blouse is one of my favourite makes. The 30s scalloped skirt I sewed a while ago. It’s a pretty pattern (even if the waistband scallops tend to fold over and look a bit squashed!!) Thank you so much for your encouragement 💐xxx

@ you are so much fun, I thought about you the other day when I picked up a small cabinet for free.xx🐝🐝

@ Furniture rescue!! You’re a lady after my own heart! 😉xxx

Thank you Lizzie (it was a mega edit as I’m sure you recognised!!) 💗

I’ve watched all yours but from my bath (this is a compliment as it’s my favourite safe, comforting place)… not very conducive to commenting though 😆 but I will catch up with those. And thank you! 😘❤️

Hi Sarah, it’s an interesting question! You’re right that most 30s patterns say to cut on the straight of grain. The only 30s pattern I’ve sewn on KZbin with instruction to cut on the bias was the 30s fishtail gown from Janet Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion. There are two main reasons - firstly bias cut garments require more fabric and this wasn’t very affordable to most people, especially during the Great Depression. The second is that working with bias cut fabric requires careful handling so that it doesn’t distort. Patterns for home sewers (who may or may not have a lot of dressmaking experience) therefore tended to be for straight of grain with bias cutting reserved for fashion designers and Hollywood. Bias cut details were often included on patterns for home sewers though, especially to play with stripes or checks. You’ve made me think this would be a really interesting subject for a video - thank you!! 💐

@@Samanthalovestosew thankyou so much for your reply! I'm thrilled to learn the answer to this question and would love to watch a vid on the subject if you have the time to make one.

That’s very kind of you, I’m so pleased you enjoyed the video. The 40s silhouette created by those jackets is so striking. I hope your jackets go well and thank you for encouraging me too! 💐

Oh I’m glad it’s not just me! I find the Moment of Truth brings either relief or dismay and a scrabble with pins! I long for one of those dressmaker’s mannequins in the exact shape of my body! (Though that might also bring on dismay 😆) Thank you so much about my rather maximalist home. The dogs send licks! ❤️

I’m so pleased this video did well because I did it once and the video file corrupted so I had to repeat all my work. I nearly lost the will! At least people watched it!! Thank you for encouraging me 💐

@ That must have been terribly demoralizing.

Thank you so much - I must make a jabot for the olive green blouse too. The glasses are copies of small 1930s ones and I live in them (very short sighted!!)

Yes me too! Actually a safety pin is a much better idea than a pin, which I also use, and usually detaches itself from the belt and digs into my body. So pleased you love the outfit and thank you for watching! 💐

That’s so kind of you and I’m really pleased that’s how you feel. I always feel like I’m talking to friends when I talk on camera (I wouldn’t be able to do it otherwise!!) 💐

Ah thank you so much ❤

You are welcome 🤗.You are a ‘True English Rose 🌹’I love your attention to detail even in your accessories 🤩❤️👍🏻

@ Awww 🥰 Today was one of those days when hearing something nice is especially welcome - thank you! ❤️❤️

You are welcome Samantha 🌹😊..I am American but spent several years in East Essexs’ U.K.and miss England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.Seeing you brings great joy to me 🥰💜

I’m so pleased you enjoyed it and thank you very much for watching! ❤️

Thank you very much Ian and well done for remembering it was a wig!!

Thank you so much Arietta (I certainly have enough fabric waiting to be made up!) ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much Leslie … I still have to make a decision on the colour!! ❤️

Thank you so much! ❤️

It’s my favourite! Thank you so much for watching and encouraging me 💐

Hi Ana! Thank you so much, it’s lovely to know a friend like you is watching. That’s how I can talk to camera. I imagine that I’m talking to friends (because it feels like I often am!) How frustrating that YT isn’t showing your comments. Once these things happen it seems hard to get back to normal. Shall give cuddles to the paw babies from you. They’re currently huffing and sighing because it’s time for their afternoon walk! 💗💐xx

@@Samanthalovestosew It took me a while before it occured to me that a lot of people were not seeing my comments. I can see them, yet most of the vloggers can not. To think, I typed out quite a lot of comments, especially over vlogmas & all but 2 comments were never seen by the recipients, humpf 😥 Yes I know what you mean about speaking to camera it feels like friends are there with us 💙 I hope your dog walk goes ok & none of you get too cold. Have a lovely week. xx 💙🤗

Thank you 🥰🥰❤️❤️

Thank you! ❤️

I want to try it in a combination of plain and colourful florals too! And thank you very much! 🌟

Oh thank you, I’ve been dithering for ages about what colour to use! Thank you very much for your help 💐

Ah you understand the bliss of a cheerful cotton flannel night dress - a kindred spirit! 🙌

Highly recommend! The pattern is pdf from Wildflower Design. I want to make another one! ❤️

Thank you so much - and for loyally watching them all the first time round too! (I’d made more things than I realised!) 💐

I know what you mean! Soutache or trapunto quilted details take ages to add but they are the details that make dresses look authentic (because they did take the time back then!) Thank you so much for your encouragement and for watching 💐

Thank you very much - I did some shirring at the hips so that’s where the dress tends to sit. I’ll definitely take on your advice for my next 20s dress though. And thank you for watching too! 💐

@ Thank you also - its on you - as you like it 😍 Love from Austria 🇦🇹

@@p.f.5718 Ah Austria!! ❤️

Thank you very much Michelle (and for loyally watching all those videos first time round!) And a very Happy New Year to you too! 💗💐

Thank you very much Katie 💐 Yes, exactly, Victorian style is particularly suited to Christmas! I must admit I was rather pleased with the colour of my outfit ♥️ It seems like there aren’t Yorkshire puddings in the US. They’re made of a similar batter to pancakes but always savoury and kind of firmer and crispier (delicious!!) Wish you were in the UK as I can totally see you at a historical costumers’ event! ♥️

It seems like America is deprived of Yorkshire puddings!!! They’re made of a kind of pancake batter and always savoury. Thank you very much for appreciating everyone’s work - it’s lovely for costumers to find an audience for the results of all those solitary hours of sewing! The next event is costumes for the Moulin Rouge! ❤️

I think the daffodil blouse might be my favourite too! I definitely want to make more blouses from this pattern - and thank you very much! 🌼

You’ve reminded me why I sewed a black and white dress … it WAS to match the dogs! I planned to make a matching coat and hat and swan around with black and white dogs! 😂 The vision was never realised!! Yes, I would have to remove all the trimmings. I think I want to remove a few anyway. I would love a 20s event. I think the 20s get a bit neglected these days with the obsession with curvy. Thank you about the outdoor filming (courtesy of my mum … she thinks she’s surprisingly good and is blissfully unaware of what goes on in the editing … thumb cropped out, landslide angle corrected etc!!) Also thank you for watching and encouraging - and see you soon! ❤️

Hi Laura, yes I accomplished more than I thought! (Just as well considering the fabric squirrelled away in every nook and cranny of my home … the boiler engineer had some trouble reaching the boiler yesterday 😆) Thank you for loyally watching through 2024 … I have some fun projects for 2025 I hope you’ll enjoy too! ❤️

That’s so lovely to hear and a great morale boost - thank you! ❤️

Thank you so much! Yes, while my favourite era is late 30s, I can’t resist sewing styles from other eras. I hope you’ll enjoy the projects I have coming up next year! 💐

Thank you so much Arietta ❤️ You know true vintage fabrics and notions are something of an obsession/compulsion. My bank balance might be a bit healthier if they weren’t!! Coming from your elegant self, I’m delighted that my makes get your seal of approval! And thank you for watching ❤️❤️🥰

Ah I’m so pleased you found me! And you’re a quilter … I’m on my first quilt (it might be a while…!) I have a friend who is a dealer in vintage fabrics from the 20s through to the 70s with lots from the 30s-50s. I can’t resist those pretty vintage fabrics. Or indeed lovely vintage buttons and trimmings. Too tempting! Thank you very much for watching and your kind encouragement ❤️

I think terracotta is what I’m going to go for! Thank you for watching 💐

That Folkwear pattern video came out all the way back in early February last year - I hardly remember it myself 😂 It’s a great pattern - though it calls itself an Edwardian Bridal Gown there’s a day dress version, which is really simple and pretty, in the Edwardian style. I seem to remember the pattern was actually drawn from an original garment. Anyway, I recommend and wouldn’t mind making another myself! Thank you very much for watching (and all my other videos too!!) ❤️

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Thank you so much and I’m very pleased you’ve found me! I do try to find scenic and interesting places to film so it’s wonderful to have those efforts appreciated (and my sewing too!) ❤️

Oh that’s truly kind of you! ❤️ Both for watching and offering me the collar piece! I’d love it but my thoughts instantly wander onto how you’d get it to me. Are you based in the UK? Also I don’t want to put you to lots of trouble, tempting as having the original collar piece is since I know I want to make this blouse again!! In any case thank you so much!

@@Samanthalovestosew It would be no trouble; It is only a small piece. I am in the UK so could post it to you easily.

@ Ah thank you so much! If you email me at [email protected] I’ll send you my home address (better not write in on the Internet!!) It’s so kind of you!

How wonderful to hear that! Thank you very much! ❤️

Thank you so much Linzi, I really appreciate all the support you’ve given me! ❤️

Thank you very much Leslie, the variety of costumes was wonderful to see - everyone so talented and so friendly too. Thank you for watching and appreciating everyone’s hard work, it means such a lot ❤️

Thank you very much Leslie and I know you’ve loyally watched the making of all these! I’m currently sewing 1940s pyjamas plus an early 40s dress from a sewing pattern in a vintage magazine that literally started disintegrating as I tried to trace it. So that’s necessitating a bit of guesswork!! ❤️

Absolutely, next to the Rolls is where my 20s dress belongs! 😆 Thank you very much for your advice on dyeing, which I’m quite new to. And very timely as I just bought some new dyes. I’m going to try dyeing 40s rayon dresses where the fabrics have mottled badly and changed colour over time. It’s high risk as rayon crepe doesn’t do well in water but since the dresses are otherwise unwearable I’m going for it! Thank you for your encouragement ❤️

Ah thank you so much and for all your support over the last year too, and a very Happy New Year to you as well! ❤️

Thank you very much Lenore … it’s pyjamas next time so that the nightie might get washed a bit more often! 😆 I’ve just been staying at my dad’s under a bed cover made by my mother in the 70s from all the little pieces of tana lawn left over from making dresses in my childhood. These things are priceless. I shall pass your compliments on to my film crew (hopefully it will encourage them for more expeditions this year!!) Thank you for all your support since the beginning - I’d probably have given up without it!! 💗💐xxx

@ I’m so glad you never gave up. For memory I think you may have had around 300 subscribers when I started watching you and I’m thrilled to see how your channel has grown. What a special quilt to sleep under and a priceless heirloom. I would love to see a photo of it one day. Looking forward to seeing your next make. Love from downunder to you and both your mum and dad (aka film crew). Xx ❤️🌺

Oh thank you very much! That Edwardian style dress pattern definitely deserves to be made up again and I’m so pleased you like the black and white! ❤️