Tutorial Tuesday: Vintage Fall Fashion How To's

 

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It is windy and chillier here today, so the BBI wants to share a quick vintage sweater washing tutorial to celebrate. 

YEAH! Sweater weather!

But before you go out in your smashing fall ensembles be sure you print out and carry our handy door check diagram and put your best fall fashion foot forward.

Don't you just love the Fall? 

Actually we have been pretty Busy here at the BBI factory, making handmade holiday stuff and some pretty serious holiday decorations, and while I doubt I'll actually get everything finished by my original goal.. I'm still holding out hope for Finished By Halloween.

Raking Up Leaves For You to Jump Into,

Betty

Tuesday Thought for the Day

 

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

-Anatole France

Made It Myself Monday: Canning Labels for YOU!

I have to admit... I looked around for something cheap and cheerful but, I didn't find canning labels that I loved. So I made my son teach me some Photoshop. And I designed these "not quite perfect but way better than any other freebies I was able to locate" jar lid labels. And now I want
to make them available to you!



DOWNLOAD VEGGIE LABEL FILE







DOWNLOAD JAM LABEL FILE


Edit: I did it! I made the labels into downloadable PDFs! Now these are sized for the wide mouth jar lids. If you scale them down by about 25% they are good for the smaller jar lids. I may find time to create those too... But with a flu-ish kid and all... maybe not.

If you need these labels:

• Just click on the tabs under the picture!
• Open file after it downloads
• print onto full sheet adhesive labels... ( I got mine from one of those Giant Office Supply Stores)
• Cut Out,
• Peel Off and
  
• Label Away.

Damn, your Jam is cute.

We Be Jammin',
Betty

(Not for Commercial Use... Please.)

Tutorial Tuesday: The Right Fabric for Your Pattern

Oh, do please click pics for legibility and possible print out.

Well, This is a quick cribbed checklist from The Complete Book Of Sewing by Constance Talbot, Published in 1943. The name says it all... this volume is a great reference resource.

You have to admire her correct, yet stilted, grammar.


I'm cutting out a casual fall jacket from a light weight woolen myself. And a cape from a coat weight boucle, a gypsy skirt from a striped rayon and a huge hole in my housekeeping standards.

( Oh, Balanced Life where are you?)

What Happened to Wednesday: The Cone

I know... a double post! Which I usually wouldn't do, but I am in the middle of a pet crisis, so naturally I am taking pictures and well, I feel really bad for the dog. (Oh, the suffering baby, he suffers! from allergies... And from a paw that allergies made him lick until it got really nasty.)

But the pictures came out great so I have to share.

the offending foot

I'm Sorry, Cooper. The Cone Of Shame just looks good on you. Because you're handsome.

And Pathetic.

And I had to get up 5 times last night to check on you, because you can't wear it and lie down, and I had to make sure you hadn't chewed off the bandage,
so I'm exploiting you.

But you'll get a cookie in a minute. 'Cause I feel guilty about it.

Poor, sad, baby.

Thrift Store Thursday: New Pony For The Stable

Meet The Singer 15-91.
She was born in 1948, in New Jersey.


I met her at the thrift store and the General said she could be mine for 20.00. A man had brought her in the day before and she had belonged to his grandma, and the machine was working great the last he knew. And she seems to work just fine.


There are some online reviews that call this machine "The Workhorse" or the "Farmer's Wife's Machine". I find sewing with her delightful. It is her sturdiness that I find so appealing.

And she cleans up real nice too.
But I have wasted quite a bit of time on the E-Bay trying to get her all outfitted with accessories.
Still looking for a buttonholer, and a piping or braiding foot, if anyone wants to trade for one.
I have loads of neat vintage supplies and even all the plates for a dresden plate quilt all in original depression era flour sack cloth.



Oh and there were other goodies at the thrift store too, that made it into my basket. But there usually are, and they usually do.