My 1930s & 1940s Original Vintage Sewing Patterns

[@ariettasvintagelife]

I'll say it again, how jealous I am of your beautiful pattern collection and so I look forward to your shop so we can all get the chance of acquiring some of your treasures!!! The sleeves in all the patterns and the details that make every single garment special and beautiful... And of course I love your furbabies, I would just want to hug that adorable face at the end!!! 💕💕😍😍

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much Arietta! It’s funny because my father and my brother can’t get over the way my tragic clutter (as they see it) is now being appreciated by others. For years they’ve been telling me to chuck it all out!! They can’t get over the idea it has turned out to have a value. They think it’s hilarious! Yes 30s sleeves are wondrous things. I can’t wait to get going on my 30s dress patterns this Spring … should Spring ever come to the UK! That adorable face at the end is a nagging adorable face. It looks cute but, beneath the sweet expression, is a will of steel. There’s no getting out of ‘walkies’ time! Thank you for all your support 💗💐

[@lesliejacobs3605]

You have a wonderful vintage pattern collection! I agree ideas never cease but time and expense can create limitations 😮

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much Leslie for appreciating my pattern collection! I live in a wonderful spot for vintage fairs and finding patterns. It’s funny because I’ve collected patterns etc practically all my life with my father and brother thinking all my stuff was tragic clutter. They’re amazed that other people have proved to be interested in it! 💗💐

[@jessicastorey1838]

Absolutely no chance of running out of ideas! The ideas pile up fast than they can be completes for sure. 😂❤️❤️❤️❤️ lovely collection. Quite a few I’d love to make.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

I’d love to see you make them too. If we lived nearby … the same continent even! I’d pop them round to you. The ideas definitely pile up faster than they can be completed! I always feel irritated by work getting in the way and have to remind myself that it does actually pay the bills! 😂 Oh to be uninterrupted at my sewing machine … an audio book in the background. Bliss! Thank you for watching! 💗💐

[@Mrs.vintage.home.uk.]

Such a lovely collection of 1930s patterns

[@Samanthalovestosew]

I’m so pleased to have them appreciated! Thank you very much for watching and encouraging me 💗💐

[@laurazeman]

Hi Samantha! What an absolutely gorgeous collection of patterns! I love your goal of making shirt waisted dresses from each era. That Style night dress pattern 😍 is so pretty. So simple yet so feminine and elegant. I am in complete agreement. Those butterfly sleeves are definitely needing to be done. Yes. Yes I do want to make a pair of 1940s pajamas. 😂😂😂 I know I would enjoy a video about the varying directions of stripes and plaids! 😊 I love your idea of a focus on house dresses. My 20 year old daughter was recently gifted with an older house coat and she is practically living in it now lol. We need to make housecoats and house dresses popular again 😊. Every time I think "Oh 'that' pattern is the best of the bunch for sure," you then pull out the next one. They are ALL so pretty. With so many gorgeous pattern options I don't know how you ever decide which one to do first! Lol Not a bad "problem" to have though lol 😆. For me, one of my favorite things about looking through my pattern collection is day dreaming of all that could be. Even if I never get the opportunity to actually make it, I love the creative process of planning. 🩷 Looking forward to next week's video! As always, thank you for sharing!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Yes! I’m the same with buttons! Just taking them out, matching them to fabric and putting them back, keeps me happy. Somewhere on my phone is an entire video of me matching 30s fabric to novelty buttons. It might go out if I can think of a title (not ‘playing with my fabric and buttons 😂) I’m so pleased you love the idea of house coats and house dresses. I bought lots of jolly floral brushed cotton fabric ultra cheap at a vintage fair that would be so perfect for house dresses. I will do it! I think my main plans for the next few months are (as well as the 40s pjs) house dresses 30s-60s to wear at home and 30s dresses to go out in (not that I go out much! 😂) Thank you for watching and appreciating my patterns! 💗💐

[@karinbaird2499]

Thank you for sharing Your lovely treasures 💐💞

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Oh I’m just thrilled that I’m finding a community of others who enjoy my vintage sewing patterns etc as much as I do! Thank you for watching and appreciating them 💗💐

[@LostinTimeWithKatie]

Thank you for sharing your fabulous pattern collection! My favorites of the 30’s patterns are the nightgown and the peasant style outfit. My favorites from the 40’s are the dress with the sailor collar and the dress with jacket that you said would make a great capsule wardrobe! There are so many good ones though it’s hard to pick 😆 I agree with you about there being no lack of ideas, it’s just about the time! Can’t wait to see what you made from the late 40’s ☺️💕

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Katie 💕 I can definitely see you in those patterns too, especially the 30s nightgown and peasant style outfit. I would so love to have more time. What I really mean is I would love not to have to work! The dream is that the vintage sewing will take off in some way and I can just do that all day (as well as dog walking … of course!!) 💗💐

[@BeverleyButterfly]

It was so lovely to see your pattern collection! But most of all to see your cute dog, my little shih tzu passed away 2 weeks ago and so seeing your puppy made me smile so much! I'm excited to see you sew some of these xx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Beverley 💕 I saw your post about losing your lovely little shih tzu. It’s heartbreaking I know from losing my previous dogs, who I love and think of every day. The immediate trauma of it diminishes over time but you never stop missing them and loving them. Only fellow dog lovers understand. Sewing and dogs are wonderful things! 🐾xx

[@BeverleyButterfly]

@Samanthalovestosew thank you so much sweetheart. Its so hard right now but I'm so glad other dog lovers understand xxx

[@lenorerhodes8110]

They are all fabulous patterns Samantha. I particularly love the nightie (I think it was the 3rd pattern you showed) and the pj’s. I look forward to seeing your make next week. Xxxx ❤️❤️🌺

[@Samanthalovestosew]

We love our PJs don’t we?! 30s nighties are so pretty too. I won’t make mine in slinky satin though … I will choose something cosier. A nice wincyette would be just the thing! I love the way that the ladies in the 30s illustrations for nighty patterns are always holding hairbrushes or gazing into little hand held mirrors! Hopefully my make for next week will get done in time. It’s currently all over the room in about 30 (not an exaggeration) separate pieces! Thank you always for your encouragement Lenore xxxx 💗💐

[@lenorerhodes8110]

I look forward to seeing your next video. Xx. ❤️❤️🌺

[@gavannapatterns353]

Lovely collection! I'm getting more and more interested in creating a 1930's wardrobe, thanks to your channel😊

[@Samanthalovestosew]

That’s so kind of you to let me know and I’m very pleased because I have a whole 1930s capsule wardrobe I plan to make this Spring! Thank you for encouraging me 💐🎀

[@iansaunders6983]

You will realise when you watch this back that your dogs were thinking behind your back. Hope they are not in trouble. 😂😂 You are proud of your pattern collection some of your offerings are 90 years old! I looked into Advance pattern 4877 and the consensus seems to be 1940's one place had it described as circa 1949. I did notice 1930's patterns were priced at 15 cents and late 1940's at 35 cents. Keep going and take care.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Oh thank you for reminding me that price is an excellent way to date patterns. I’ve seen Stephanie Canada date patterns that way but my tendency is to just look at the illustrations! I can see that Advance pattern does have more of a late 40s shape and shall now make sure it is filed in the correct place (Miss Lemon style!) I can hear the dogs yawning while I talk but, only when I see the video, do I realise all the eye rolling and general huffing that goes on when they aren’t centre of attention! Thank you very much for watching!

[@killerkitschvintagelizzie]

I'm finally getting caught up on videos! I want to make every single one of those dresses! xx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

So do I! 😁 So many plans, so little time! I’m loving your knitting series too. I’ll definitely be continuing to practise through the summer xx

[@killerkitschvintagelizzie]

@@Samanthalovestosew we need more hours and more days! I have a few more knitting series videos coming and possibly another free pattern in the Fall. xx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@killerkitschvintagelizzie Yay! You're the person who's finally going to get me to stick to learning to knit! xx

[@karinjcollstrup7360]

Oh PLEASE do the butterfly sleeve. And please show us how the paternpieces look like and how it is contructed... I would LOVE to hack thoose sleeves...😅

[@laurazeman]

I agree! 😊 🦋

[@Samanthalovestosew]

I have a couple of projects already underway but, after that, this Spring and Summer sees the advent of some serious 30s sewing! I shall make sure the butterfly sleeve dress is one of the first. I’ll show you the shape and go through the construction. Plus … if I can work out the tech … I will create a pdf of the sleeve pattern piece to create a free download. If you can wait till May! (We’ll all be wafting around in butterfly sleeves!) 💗💐

[@Samanthalovestosew]

See my reply Laura … I’m going to do my best to make butterfly sleeves available to us all! 💕

[@laurazeman]

@Samanthalovestosew Oh I love this idea! 🩷🦋

[@rowanhughes8682]

Hi Samantha ❤ what a collection of patterns and each design has its own pretty details! There's something to love in the styles from each decade (I'm drawn to the later ones especially) How will you ever decide which ones to make, when? 😅 Such a choice! Much like me with hundreds of screenshots in my phone gallery, yarny makes in beautiful colour combinations 🧶They fill me with inspiration 😍 Looking at the sizes on your patterns, 32" and 34", wondering how difficult it must be to size them up? Dogs looking suitably bored again this week 😂 How very long suffering they are..and how they love to show it!! I so enjoy hearing your ideas and plans (even if they don't!!)

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Even as I’m trying to write a message to you a border collie nose is inserting itself under my hand! Oh yes, dreaming and planning is (at least!) half the fun! 😄 It’s easy to size up patterns by cutting them through the middle vertically and horizontally and spreading them (or make them smaller by pleating down the centre). However I am a titch so the reason I’ve bought patterns in this size is because that is my size! The only vintage pattern I made up that had been graded to modern sizing was the Marilyn dress and it came up too big. Modern sizes allow a lot of ease (ie larger for a relaxed fit). This thing about ‘survival bias’ has taken off but statistically - factually - women were shorter and thinner and basically smaller back then…. What with food being fairly revolting, wartime rationing, having to walk and cycle everywhere, calorie burning housework not to mention laundry time involving a mangle! Thank goodness my sewing hours involve many cups of tea and packets of minstrels (I can’t stop eating them! Hopefully I’ll put myself off them eventually!!) I’m sewing a late 40s dress this week. I love late 40s dresses. I will show my 50s, 60s and 70s patterns too at some point. I have a 70s apron I bought for the fun of it featuring men with big moustaches and sideburns (remember them?! 🤣) around a barbecue. Even my fashion rebel father had sideburns but he claims to have been forced by his hairdresser! 😆

[@rowanhughes8682]

@@Samanthalovestosew Now all I can picture is Engelbert Humperdinck in a 70s shiney shirt!! It's always puzzled me why on earth did he pick that stage name? Of all the names, in all the world..why! Dickie Wagner or Freddie Chopin sound much better 🤔 i would have stuck with Arnold Dorsey 😆 Oh you are a teeny tinie one 🧚‍♀️ how fortuitous! Those patterns are made for you 😍 born in the wrong era. I, however, am a modern day matron 🤭 Ps Galaxy Minstrels 🤤 Now you're talking!! 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@rowanhughes8682 I always thought the same thing! Engelbert Humperdinck is surely something you change your name away from, not to. Unless you’re a comedian. And he never struck me as having a huge sense of humour. Seemed to take himself quite seriously. It’s a mystery. Isn’t it a coincidence that our minds occupy themselves with the same quandaries?! While others ponder little questions like what is their purpose, the meaning of life etc. We focus on the really important questions … Why Engelbert Humperdinck??? 🙌😆!

[@rowanhughes8682]

@@Samanthalovestosew Exactly! But who knows 🤔 maybe we're the radical thinkers of our time and we'll be called a 'movement ' of some sort. A point in time where cultural thinking changed. Genius! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@rowanhughes8682We are influencers after all!! 🙌😂

[@kimt2au]

Another great video, Sam. Thank you for sharing. Please drop a kiss on the snoot of each of your doggies for me.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much and ha ha I shall definitely drop a kiss from you on the snoots of those naughty doggies! Sure they’ll send back to you big tail wags! 💕🐾🐾

[@MichelleSMV]

Such pretty patterns! It’s gonna be fun to make any of these ❤❤. I would love to have more true vintage patterns but they’re harder to find nowadays for me. I also just moved to Spain recently so I’m not sure where to find them here lol

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Oh you’ve moved to Spain. To make that move must have been quite something! I know people in places like Spain and Italy do find it harder to source vintage. Though in many ways I’m lucky that the UK, especially where I live, is awash with it, it has led to a somewhat cluttered home!! I’m so pleased you like the patterns and thank you for supporting me. ❤️🥰

[@MichelleSMV]

@@Samanthalovestosew yep! It’s a bit more similar to my home country than Japan was in some ways haha. And now a whole new language to learn! I had no idea! So it is a bit more difficult here then. It’s great that you can find vintage things more easily (though I admit I have found a vintage machine!) but I’d say a cluttered home has personality!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@MichelleSMV I love that you already found a vintage sewing machine! (Priorities! 😁) It must be a real challenge moving to a new place where you don’t speak the language. And I hadn’t realised Japan wasn’t your original home. You’re well traveled!

[@MichelleSMV]

@@Samanthalovestosew definitely priorities 😆! And it was! Luckily my partner speaks Spanish but I’m learning now. It definitely was difficult when I first moved to Japan though!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@MichelleSMV My best friend and her husband moved to Tokyo two years ago and are still struggling to learn Japanese!