In the 1960s The Beatles made a film of their magical Mytsery tour- featured in the film , and worn many times afterwards- is a wonderful granny square vest waistcoat worn by Paul McCartney.
Its made in wonderful muted colours and we feel that it would be a great garment to wear today, and so we have created a pattern for you to make it yourself
You can find the pattern to purchase in our ebay store by clicking here-
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We have just sourced and listed 2 rather lovely vintage knitting patterns for wedding dresses today. We have a variety of knitting and crochet patterns for wedding dresses available on the Vintage Visage website, but these 2 are from the 1960s , have a 'mod' juliet gown style , and very pretty lace stitches.
This one has pretty puffed lace sleeves with a lace stitch yolk and a lovely lace stitch design at the hem- its a very flattering shape and can be found on our ebay shop here if you wish to make it asap!
This next one has a bonnet to match-a very mod style
We give full instructions on how to make these fab 1960s wedding dresses, and also ideas of how to decorate them with beads and sequins. Here at Vintage Visage we are also experienced tutors who are happy to guide you if at first glance there is something that you do not understand- our mission is to get you all enjoying your vintage making! You can find the wedding dress and bonnet pattern in the ebay shop by clicking here- it will take you straight there....
We do hope that you enjoy making our patterns- why not visit our facebook page too to see some of the items made by other customers and special offers- click here to get there- don't forget to click 'like' to keep updated with our posts there...
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We have sourced some more vintage patterns of how to use flower looms to produce not only individual flowers, but also items of clothing for both children and adults.
There are wonderful bags you can make, throws, cushions and a wide variety of the loomed flowers too
There are patterns for mini skirts with loomed flowers...
and for hippy style maxi skirts too.....
The throws and cushions are particularly pretty and would look fantastic with lots of colours used from your stash of left over yarns
All of these patterns are a on CD- you can buy the CD from our Ebay store - if you click here it will take you straight there- enjoy making the cute little flowers- don't forget they look lovely as pins and brooches on their own too....
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If you are looking to make simple little ankle boots for jesters, elves, wizards, witches or medieval costumes then we have the patterns for you.
These are such cute ankle boots to make- they have the wonderful shape and feel of jester, wizards or witches and can be made out of whatever fabric you fancy! There are 3 adult sizes, which are english sizes 6-7, but you could easily make them bigger as the charts are squared and so therefore you could enlarge them just by making the squares bigger, and a children's one.
There are several different shapes- this one is a classic jester, elf, wizard shape which is seen here made with printed fabric but could be made with plain fabric too- you could even pop on some tinkly bells!
This is a softer more medieval shape- it is seem here made with fur fabric but could just as easily be made with leathers or suedes, or softer printed fabrics too for house slippers.
This one is a more modern 1960s take on the shape as it has a sling back! But you could adapt it to have a full heel if required.
We also have a little jester booties pattern where the diagrams are full sized and so you can just trace or cut around them to make.
For this cute little bootie we provide the pattern for a very tiny version (which can be used a decorations for the christmas tree- try stuffing them with goodies!) through to baby and toddler sizes- there are 5 sizes given in all....
And if you are making elves costumes for Santas little helpers this Christmas then these are perfect.....
if you wish to purchase these patterns you can find the 3 adults ones in one pattern here and the cute little one here and we hope to have them both on the website as instant download very soon......
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We have just sourced some rather wonderful late 1960s knitting and crochet patterns- one of our favourites is this wonderful fab and funky set of hot pants and crop top.....
Not only do we love the crop top and hotpants but we also love the kinky 1960s lace up purple boot too!
The hot pants and crop top are made in DK so are nice and quick to make up and also quite substantial to wear. You can make it in the original trendy purple colour or you could make item in any colours you like- including a nice monochrome black and white set too- very mod!
You can find the pattern to purchase by clicking here -enjoy!
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This is a really unusual find- this is a pullout from a 1968 magazine for a range of knitting patterns which are modelled by the stars of coronation street of the time! Theres Ena Sharples, Pat Phoenix as Elsie Tanner, Albert Tatlock, Bill Kenwright, Emily Nugent (or Bishop as she is now), Minnie Caldwell, Ken Barlows first wife (in a very fetching mod mini dress) , Len Fairclough and more.....
Take a look at the photos below to see them modelling the knitwear.
This is Minnie Caldwell in a dressing gown that you can knit for yourself...
Ken Barlows first wife in actually quite a fab crochet mod mini dress!
The street siren of the time, Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) in a rather nice knitted suit
Emily Bishop (nee Nugent) modelling a dress to make
And one of my favourite characters- Albert Tatlock.....
Its quite a good snapshot of fashions of the late 1960s as you can see that there was a mixture of fab, funky fashionable wear, and quite old fashioned homely wear too.......
The original is on ebay to purchase if anyone is interested- its a wonderful piece of Coronation Street memorabilia. ! Find it by clicking here
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This is a very rare booklet that we have sourced and digitalised for a set of wonderful and very stylish patterns for knitting machines. They are really unusual not only because machine knitting patterns were not known for their fashion conscious looks at the time, but also because the model is Twiggy.
These patterns are hip, fab and groovy in the true sense of the words- this one would look great today- and the long maxi dress could also be used as bridal wear and a wedding dress.
This stylish jacket has overtones of the Ossie Clarke designs of the time, and the elegant skirt comes with instructions for 2 lengths- mid and maxi.
There are also looks of Bill Gibb design sin this one- the midi jacket os wonderful and would look so stylish today too- either in the same bright colours or perhaps in more muted tones such as creams, whites and neutrals.
Look at these wonderful tight skinny rib jumpers too- they were made a size smaller than normal so that they clung really well to the contours....
This is such a great concept- its a poncho that can also be worn as a skirt! We love it! and ponchos are in the shops this autumn so are hip fab and groovey now too....
Please note that these are machine knitting patterns and not hand knitting patterns. They instructions are not for any particular type or make of machine and so are reasonably easy to follow.There are patterns for both single bed machines and double beds too.
The ebooklet can be found and purchased by clicking here, at our Vintage Visage website. Its the start of a new section of vintage machine knitting patterns
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This is a wonderful fair isle design vintage knitting pattern- modelled by the also very wonderful Roger Moore, who graduated from knitting pattern modelling to be a fab actor as James Bond!
Make your own matching pullover- The pattern is available in our ebay store now which you can find by clicking here...
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Well- this is such a rare find- its not often that we find a supermodel modelling for knitting patterns- (except Twiggy of course who we have featured before) but here we find the wonderful and iconic Grace Coddington on this mod knitting pattern.
This is a wonderful mod style 1960s mod suit vintage knitting pattern , consisting of the box jacket with three quarter length sleeves, the mini skirt and the blouse underneath, all knitted! We love the pretty pink and red colours- we also think that it would look pretty fab hip and groovy made in black and white too- a white suit with black squares, or a black suit with white squares.....
It has instructions for 34-40 inch bust, and 36-42 inch hips and so unusually for vintage patterns is quite generous in its sizing .
As you probably know, Grace Coddington started as a model for Vogue, worked on British Vogue and then became creative director on American Vogue.
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Top hats! Who knew that you could knit a top hat? This is a great knitting pattern which actually dates from the 1960s for a very chic knitted top hat......
Of course when knitted its much softer that the traditional stiff top hat- but that is part of its charm and its wonder, We love this- its chic but also slightly arty in that it has that twist on what you might expect a top hat to be- not quite as mad and odd as the cup made from fur (I think that was the surrealists?) but nevertheless interesting.
Its very easy to make- its made with chunky yarn and we have made one in an evening when knitting quickly. If you wish it to be stiff- you can of course add a stiff interior of card or stiff plastic to make it more upright. Find it by clicking here to download on the Vintage Visage website
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