funky bowler

With Spring approaching, I've been doing a lot of sewing lately.  As usual, it's sporadic since I have barely any fabric, but I've been doing pretty well with what I have. Something I have not been doing is taking pictures. I'm busy, y'all. Working in the middle of the day doesn't leave a lot of opportunities to get good lighting in my room. Now that it's getting darker later, I'll eventually get that done. In lieu of photos of that, I figured I'd share what else I've been wiling my hours away- binge pinning vintage patterns.  Pinterest is definitely a huge waste of time and there is a lot of cowboy-boots-at-your-wedding bullshit on there, but when it's on your phone, it's such a great way to look busy on the bus. Plus, it's like the digital version of the clipping books I used to make of clothes I'd cut out of magazines ten years ago, so... there's that.

Anyway, here's some of my favorite patterns from the 1960s I've found recently. I really wish I knew how to grade patterns up to my size. I'd love to be able to make every single one of these.

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 The original link for this one is dead, but I wish I knew more about it. I love the bolero and the weirdo bowler hat that manages to both be huge and tiny at the same time?!

EleanorMeriwether Etsy

Whitestarheart Etsy

AtomicRedhead Etsy

Bellaloona Etsy

DesignRewindFashions Etsy

BONUS KITTEN PICTURE OF ONE OF THE KITTENS I'M CURRENTLY BABYSITTING ENJOYING MY SHOE:

Untitled Tina Fey Project Formerly Titled Tooken

 

 

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It's been three years since the woodwind-driven incidental music of a Tina Fey production has graced the airwaves (or, in this case, the internetwaves).  Her much anticipated 30Rock follow up has finally arrived, despite a name change and being picked up by NBC, then sold to Netflix. Well, thank Gosh and his son Jeez for  Netflix, because Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (formally Tooken, a better title in my opinion) is hilarious. It would have died on NBC, just like all its other programming, but the internet is the perfect venue for it.   More proof that Netflix has really changed the television game, and for the better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Produced by Tina Fey and 30Rock writer Robert Carlock, and starring nearly everyone on the planet,  the show follows Kimmy Schmidt (Erin from the Office), one of the Indiana Mole Women-a group of kidnapees who had been held in an underground bunker as part of Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne's apocalyptic cult for fifteen years.  After they are freed,  she decides to stay in New York instead of going back to Durnsville, Indiana. She ends up rooming with struggling and flamboyant off-brand Iron Man impersonator Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess, D'FWAN!!!), and working as a nanny/assistant for Jenna Maroney Jacqueline Voorhees (Jenna Maroney Jane Krakowski). Tina Fey makes a brief appearance as an inept lawyer with amazing brown triangular blush and a tight perm in the latter half of the series, along with a stupid amount of cameos including Nick Kroll, Amy Sedaris, Kiernan Shipka, Matt Lauer, Jon Hamm, and anyone else who had the day free.

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Kimmy, having been held captive since she was 14, approaches everything with the outlook and insight of an overenthusiastic eighth-grader, despite not finishing the eighth grade. When asked at a club if she was into molly, she replies that Molly was her favorite American Girl doll (smashcut to me screech laughing).  The first thing she buys with her victim money is a pair of light up sneakers.  She hasn't had a clock since her Tomagotchi died. She is #hasbrown hilarious.

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A second season has already been ordered, so do yourself a favor and watch the first.