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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-27-2004, 02:41 PM (1 of 19)
I love you guys*! I've had a lot of fun on this board the last few days..... So my thread here is for all who are interested: ReTRo Appliques from old Pattern books, booklets, packages > > !! I myself am looking for "dainty", more nature type ones for now / ones to be used perhaps for children's appliques...but it would be fun to see how many retro designs we can discuss! Like Poodle Appliques, for instance?? I wish I could wear a poodle skirt again --no joKe, but I need a "HuLa Hoop" to shrink my Waist--  HeeHee--I'm just slightly younger than that --I wore one or two mini-skirts, but no "micro-mini's" !!
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
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From: paroper
Date: 04-27-2004, 11:27 PM (2 of 19)
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Yeah, I was too young for poodle skirts and can cans (that was my 9 yrs older sister) and too old for hot pants. Our hems were coming up, but by golly, the typing teacher wasn't going to let THAT happen...She'd meet us in the girls bathroom with a ruler and anyone that had a hemline more than two inches above the floor....off with their heads (no, actually they were sent home). When I was in school, we still were not allowed to wear pants until my senior year when we could wear "poly pant suits"....but I got the bells in college, even the plazzo pants. OESD has some cool retro type embroidery designs...I found them the other day..if anyone is interested, ask and I'll look for the name of the download. They are having two for one downloads this weekend.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-27-2004, 11:45 PM (3 of 19)
 I am on Web TV, and I can't download -- I can click on links and surf all over the place.. I can go to their siteand look. Can you give me the URL? I can't print out either, altho there are printers for web TV..I don't own one. ((sigh)) I'm primitive ~*~!
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: paroper
Date: 04-27-2004, 11:55 PM (4 of 19)
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Love to...I think they are really cute (and tempting) http://www.embroideryonline.com/BuyPack_ag.asp?SKU=11874&EDI=148465875 The name of the pack is I enjoy being a girl 2 I enjoy being a girl 1 is just a bunch of girl things like compacts and the like, but this one is one I can see my highschooler wearing. pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: paroper
Date: 04-27-2004, 11:56 PM (5 of 19)
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If you like it you may need to go to some "old timers" like me who don't have high speed connection.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 04-28-2004, 08:10 AM (6 of 19)
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One time I was walking past a small, independent fabric store and in the window there was a piece of green crepe with Aspen leaves cut from cotton print sprinkled around. All I could see was a skirt with the leaves in a wavey line down one side. Well, I've never made that skirt but I've got flamingos on my winter coat, flowers on my daughters skirt, a lizard crawling up a dress hem, a bee at the neckline and many other things. I made my daughter a jumper and instead of hemming it I appliqued a string of flowers along the bottom and trimmed it off around the uneven bottom edge of the flowers. It looked great. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-28-2004, 12:13 PM (7 of 19)
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Do you wear that "winter coat" in Florida? ReaLLy different*! I LOVE the idea of uneven hemline with appliqued flowers --also love the aspen leaf idea too...(being from Colorado)!! THANKS*!*!
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-28-2004, 12:19 PM (8 of 19)
One thing I was thinking about in using some of these ReTrO designs, was the documenting of the year the design came out --from a magazine or a pattern booklet or package. (Just the librarian in me....*
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: wifetod
Date: 04-28-2004, 12:39 PM (9 of 19)
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Oh my gosh, poodle skirts. That brought back a memory. In the early 90's when my daughter was a young teen, she needed a poodle skirt for school. I had my sewing machine and did very little garment construction. So I went a bought material. I think it was almost felt like if I remember. Then I got the applique and sewed it on. It was a simple skirt pattern and it looked really cute. Wow! How fun some of that stuff it. I know she doesn't have that skirt anymore but it was fun anyway.
Jolene
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User: wifetod
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-28-2004, 01:21 PM (10 of 19)
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That's so greAt that you had fun with it*! I think there are patterns available for poodle skirts all of the time now (not positive) but I saw them in the costume section(s) of a couple of Big Pattern books at the fabric store. Also, Wal-Mart has a couple of Poodle appliques on their spin racks. I have 2 REAL poodle pups*! Well, one is a silver "Schnoodle", and the other is a mini- Black Poodle. (Both "pound puppies" - my son volunteers there! Yay for Animal Shelters). == OTHER Appliques: I am wondering about the old teen-age "ponytail-like" designs --anyone see or have any OLD ones from the 50s or early 60s? Ice Cream Cones or Sodas? There were more popular "images" from those days --as I brainstorm to myself about them, I will post. (The "sodas" I just mentioned were ice-cream-sodas with a cherry on top / or ice cream sundaes in applique, not soda pop, altho there probably were those too**!! Have a HaPpY DaY*!*
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: paroper
Date: 04-28-2004, 02:11 PM (11 of 19)
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Poodle skirts are always popular at Halloween....and our church did a take-off on Greese a couple of years ago...the skirt and top was no problem...but finding the right scarf...now THAT was a problem. One of the skirts I made for my daughter one Halloween had a record...Yeah, a record on it. (For those of you who don't know, they are flat and round and have a hole in the middle and play music on a funny turn-table thing). When I was about 5 or 6 my sister had a slumber party at Christmastime. The girls made felt skirts with poodles and all kinds of Christmas things on them...trees and ornaments and candy canes with sequins and beads...it was a wonderful night. We were headed for church one Sunday morning a couple of weeks later and my sister sat down in the back seat and her skirt flew up over her head blocked her face...my dad asked her how many can cans she had on and she pawed her way through to look at him and said "7"...he marched her back in the house to take some of them off. pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 04-28-2004, 05:56 PM (12 of 19)
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I found a pattern in my stash the other day that had a size 1 and 2 little boys shirt, and shortall pattern.. price printed is 75 cents.. I bought it for my nephew, he will be 22 in May.. But the applique patterns are all still in there, Sesame street characters.. Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, and I believe Oscar or Cookie Monster is in there also. I don't remember which one. I used the pattern for him, but I did not put appliques on it, then I put it away and forgot I had it..
Sew With Love
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User: LeapFrog Libby
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-28-2004, 11:32 PM (13 of 19)
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Originally posted by paroper Poodle skirts are always popular at Halloween....and our church did a take-off on Greese a couple of years ago...the skirt and top was no problem...but finding the right scarf...now THAT was a problem. One of the skirts I made for my daughter one Halloween had a record...Yeah, a record on it. (For those of you who don't know, they are flat and round and have a hole in the middle and play music on a funny turn-table thing). When I was about 5 or 6 my sister had a slumber party at Christmastime. The girls made felt skirts with poodles and all kinds of Christmas things on them...trees and ornaments and candy canes with sequins and beads...it was a wonderful night. We were headed for church one Sunday morning a couple of weeks later and my sister sat down in the back seat and her skirt flew up over her head blocked her face...my dad asked her how many can cans she had on and she pawed her way through to look at him and said "7"...he marched her back in the house to take some of them off. === What a hilarious story --wearing 7 at one time*! I used to wear 2 or sometimes 3/ mostly 2. (in 7th? grade--I don't remember if I wore them after that*) Maybe I was still in grade school~~ I DO remember wrapping, or "wadding" them up tightly and putting rubber bands around the "wads", so that they would "bounce" or flare out--I guess Pouf OuT -each time you went to put them on! I had all of these petticoats (maybe 6 or so) at the bottom of my closet in "balls" ---they looked like gigantic bath scrubbers made out of net that are available now*!! HaHaHa~~!! They would sort of roll out, or roll around, and I had to avoid stepping on them while finding shoes..!  
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-28-2004, 11:42 PM (14 of 19)
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Of course those Sesame Street Characters are still good /still popular-- how did they "applique" on? Did you have to cut out fabric (blue, etc.) for each of them? Hmmm - Were they big? What company printed the pattern?... Or were they jus`t included machine appliques?
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-29-2004, 12:18 AM (15 of 19)
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Well, I broke down~~today~~ and bought the ol' "Better Homes & Gardens APPLIQUE Book' from the series-- you know, copyright 1978. The book series that seems" to be everywhere at garage sales, flea markets, etc. ad nauseum --but when you need one you can't find it! I've had several copies of the Patchwork one and gave them away gladly -- now I bought this Applique one for $2.50. There AREN'T ANY APPLIQUE Books around! Well, it's not greAt for retro, but has good text,and there are some retro things, but I want "screaming ReTrO" --HaHa! It has some wonderful traditional applique quilt block patterns in it, so it's worth it just for those.== Outside on the $ale table I found the "BH & G Embroidery Book" of the same dang SeRiEs*--for only 50 cents! I almost like it better --for ReTrO! It has the recogniZable 60s groovy "Crewel Embroidered Butterfly": with little pinwheel stars and a rainbow, backed with (of course)> CHARTRUESE fabric (or yellow) --but chartruese and magenta are in there, along with burnt orange, light orange, medium ornge, pink, rust, and vermillion. EyE-PoPPing CoLoRS! HeeHee! There are 2 Shisha Stitcheries also, in that book. (.. how many of you know what THAT is?) I'll give you a hint Think vintage Pier One! HoHO!!
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-29-2004, 07:51 AM (16 of 19)
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coloradoanni -- Have you checked out Dover Books? The stencil books could easily be converted for applique and they have them from most styles of the last century and before. I love art deco and have found wonderful things there. And the prices are reasonable -- downright cheap really. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: coloradoanni
Date: 04-29-2004, 06:40 PM (17 of 19)
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Originally posted by DorothyL coloradoanni -- Have you checked out Dover Books? The stencil books could easily be converted for applique and they have them from most styles of the last century and before. I love art deco and have found wonderful things there. And the prices are reasonable -- downright cheap really. Dorothy ==== Thanks again, Dorothy. I know Barnes & Noble has Dover books - I do have some Victorian paper designs from them. I love theDover series. I'll have to go get a yummy calorie-laden Starbuck's coffee and look in May. My money is spent this week! ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
Member since: 04-24-2004 Total posts: 50
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 04-29-2004, 07:10 PM (18 of 19)
Yes, the Sesame Street characters had to be cut out and sewed on , after embroidering the facial features on. 
Sew With Love
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User: LeapFrog Libby
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From: coloradoanni
Date: 05-05-2004, 03:46 PM (19 of 19)
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Yeserday I was digging in my bedroom through some thrift store bags, and ran across a book I must have gotton last year--> a 1954 sewing book / it has a simplified pattern for a circle skirt with a "flying` pocket"! Haha! The article in this "Smart Sewing" book/mag.is "Going around in circles", and the photo looks` like it is for an elementary age school girl. Caption reads: "FLYING POCKET ..And it snaps on an off! Decorated with the sauciest of French Poodles, it makes this circle skirt of navy cotton one of our favorites. A larger skirt could have two pockets or another poodle on the skirt." == Another notation in this article says "Petticoats of Pellon make the skirts stand out prettily." There are several pics* of circle skirts for both young women and diff. sizes of girls. Oooh, okay --poodle pic skirt is size 10 / the pocket instructions are separate. HeeHee * Anybody interested? I could probably photo copy this..........
ScRaPs!*sTuDio
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User: coloradoanni
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