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#sewvintageburda2020

Continuing on from my previous post sharing the oldest of my Burda magazines – July 1969, I traced out the chosen pattern. In this post, I am sharing my process and thoughts on tracing patterns from vintage Burda magazines.

Sewing Pattern Selection – Dress 8107

This issue has many beautiful designs that I’d love to sew up but I had to resist the temptation to sew the more complex designs.

I had to put my mindset back to being a beginner seamstress and select a simple design. The rationale being that small wins can only add momentum to my motivation.

Here is the magazine picture:

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I thought this was a good design to attempt as it would also be good at showing up the fit and ease. I am not sure yet what the ease is like on the vintage patterns. Here is the line drawing –

Size selection

Its good practice to check your measurements again so I retook my bust, waist and hip measurements which placed my bust size in the 38/40 (that’s one size) and my hip is in the next size – 42.

Burda 2019 – All the styles at a glance

For this project since the skirt is an A-Line type which doesn’t get snug at the hip, I traced size 38/40.

I was wrong about tracing!

I used baking parchment to trace out the pattern in the usual way that I trace. I have to admit that tracing out was nowhere near as hard I had believed!

Sure, the pattern sheets look dense but once you get into it – it is not that bad. This surprised me. It shouldn’t have though – tracing is tracing. Duh Hila!

I had budgeted 45 minutes to finish the tracing job but it took me 20 mins. That #smallwin made me feel so good and excited at the realisation that I will be able to trace more patterns from these vintage pattern sheets.

It also helps that the pattern sheets are smaller than what we have now with Burda.

The next step is to sew a toile using some unbleached calico that’s been hanging around my collection for a while. Have you done anything recently that you thought was going to be really hard, but turned out to be easier? Sometimes we need to get out of our own way!

2020 Sewing Goal #1

And that’s how I now come upon this possibly Sisyphian task of making my first sewing goal of 2020 – to sew with vintage Burda magazines.

Aka #sewvintageburda2020

#sewvintageburda2020

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I’d love to do round-up posts and would love guest posts around sewing with vintage Burda – get in touch if that is something you might be interested in doing.

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