By Andrea I haven’t had a sewing post for y’all for awhile, as I’ve been busy with non-retro sewing projects. However, I have been doing some embroidery lately (I need to have something to do when I am sitting in front of the TV!) and there’s a couple of online…
by Betty Crafter This week I decided to break into this mosaic by number kit that I’ve had laying around the shop that hasn’t been getting any attention. This kit contained the items to make the Taurus, Cancer, and Virgo zodiac wall hanging. I just so happen to be a…
This is Little Betty’s FAVORITE time of year. Sometimes I worry about her pickin’ skills because whenever we hit an estate sale or thrift store, she cannot resist the Easter decorations! She clearly feels a magnetic pull towards the ceramic bunnies pushing wheelbarrows full of brightly colored eggs too strong…
By Betty Crafter Y’all, I am a crewel tornado and I cannot be stopped! I am on a roll – look out ’cause if you’re in the way you will be left flattened, bewildered, and covered in chain stitches and french knots of every jewel tone in the rainbow. I…
What seems like eons ago, I started a vintage crewel kit for the cutest lion pillow ever. You can read about my grand beginnings here. Well recently my crewel passion has reached a fever pitch and I revisited my old friend, determined to add another crewel pillow to my collection.…
This week I decided to dig into a vintage Bucilla kit I’ve been hoarding for awhile – this cute as a button family of Gingerbread dolls! I love love love these vintage kits! Why don’t they make stuff like this anymore? For some reason I had it in my head…
by Betty Crafter This week I revisit an old favorite, McCalls Christmas crafts in felt. You may remember me drooling over several projects in this magazine last year in this post. Since everyone in Casa Crafter has been battling the plague for about 3 weeks now I didn’t have the…
By Andrea Fall as arrived here, and with it, fall yardwork (yuck!). Unfortunately, this is cutting into our working-on-the-Westi time, so I don’t have anything new to report there to you this week. Instead, I am bringing you a retro pattern review – Simplicity 6432, which I am calling my…
By RetroRuth Wow! We got some awesome entries for our “Odds ‘N Ends” contest! It was really, really hard to pick the three finalists, but after lots of thinking, discussing, thinking, arguing and then more thinking, we have it narrowed down to these three (which are in no particular order!):…
By RetroRuth I am hard at work on my latest Christmas craft project; a fun Mid-Century Modern folded-paper Christmas wreath. I found the idea in a 1958 Better Homes & Gardens magazine, but I changed around the directions a bit and came up with a slightly easier method. But the…
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