About Vintage Grrl

Mid 30's Sydney-sider, wife & mother.
I love vintage fashion, swing dancing, Jazz, shoes, hats, handbags, make-up, chocolate, techno-gadgets, horror films and sci-fi.

My Knitting Patterns

Millinery Essentials Course – Day Two

Day two was fun!  We got to use hat blocks to make the bases of our ‘fascinator’ (mine’s turning more into a hatinator), sewing on millinery wire and starting to stitch the bias around the edging. It’s amazing how something flat can be transformed into a 3D shape.  It doesn’t matter what craft I’m doing, I [...] [...]

An Experiment in Colour

Last December I received the last installment in a fibre club subscription. BFL (Blue-faced Leicester) and Angora blend.. divine, right? Well, I didn’t think so. The colours were so not… well, me. For 2 months I was considering trying to swap or sell it off to a more appreciative recipient. [...] [...]

Millinery Essentials Course – Day One

I enrolled for this course after seeing the Milliner’s Guild stand at the Living Creatively show back in August.  I have always loved hats, but can never seem to buy them from the stores as I have a big old head (proven when I found out I have the biggest head in the current class [...] [...]

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