I wasn't sure at the time I signed up what I wanted to pledge, so I will admit to being pretty wishy-washy about it. Something along the lines of "I will knit or sew some projects using vintage patterns". There's commitment for you, all right.
I still have absolutely no direction in mind for what I'm doing in terms of my vintage pledge, well... in many areas outside of the vintage pledge as well, but we'll focus on the pledge in this post, not life in general at the moment. LOL! I have enough stress going on in life at the moment that my crafting should definitely not be one of them. So, my goal is to have fun and enjoy this and just see what happens.
One of the limitations of my Vintage Pledge is that I do not have an extensive library of patterns to choose from. Although with the 80s now being included I suppose I have many more than I realize - but when I think vintage I like to go a bit further back. Also, the majority of the patterns I do have are children's patterns.
Wow! So that was a lot of preamble to get to the point of this post, which is that I have actually made my first Vintage Pledge project of the year!
I signed up to do a swap in one of my Ravelry groups in the spring and was assigned a little girl who lives in the Southern States so I really wanted to make her a little sunsuit for the heat of the summer. I knew I had a great 1960s pattern in my stash that would fit the bill exactly for what I was envisioning for her.
I didn't realize until I dug it out of my pattern box that the pattern itself was a size 2 and the little miss in question was just turning one this summer and unlike my gargantuan babies, she is slightly more petite, so between consulting a modern pattern I had in my stash (well - early 1990s anyways) for sizing and a bit of going by guess and by golly I graded the pattern down to what I hope is closer to the 12 month size clothes she actually wears.
It was a fun sew and I love the blend of the vintage look of the pattern and the modern beachy print. I decided to add eyelet instead of a self ruffle at the bottom because I LOVE eyelet on all things and then changed the bottom of the bloomers to have a ruffled edge rather than a turned under casing because ruffles should be somewhere on a baby girl's sunsuit in my humble estimation and since I'd eliminated them from the top they had to go on the bottom. (My mind is a mysterious and bizarre place. Don't feel badly if you're thinking, "What in holy hell is she on about now?!?!" I certainly won't judge you for it! LOL)
I also knit a quick little head band because the swap was on Ravelry and I felt that meant it should definitely utilize yarn somehow in it! I used a thoroughly modern pattern but picked one that I thought sort of echoed the vintage vibe of the eyelet I used on the suit. The Princess Headband took almost no time and was an absolute pleasure to knit!
Anyways. End result? I adore this outfit and as a bonus it fulfils the first of my Vintage Pledge projects. Whoot! Whoot!
Next up on my sewing desk is a modern pattern for me, but I do have a few more vintage pledge project ideas floating around in my head right now!
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