Vintage patterns and making

Vintage crochet patterns for lace bedspreads, throws, afgans

Crochet lace bedspreads are so pretty and really make a bedroom look so special. We have just sourced and digitalised a selection of lovely vintage crochet lace bedspread patterns which are deceptively easy to make as they are made from lots of little motifs, or bands and strips of crochet. This makes your project nice and portable as you can make these little motifs anywhere!

This is one of the motifs used- how pretty is that!- and besides using the motifs to put together to make large bedspreads, you could also put them together to make smaller items such as rectangular scarves or shawls. You can also make them from thicker modern yarns- it will make the motifs bigger, but then you won't need to make so many to complete your project.

Here is a selection of the patterns available

At the moment they are only available on our ebay store as printed copies which you can access by clicking here but we hope to have them on the website as pdf downloads soon so will update this when that happens! We do have other afgans and bedspreads to download from the website which you can find by clicking here Enjoy!

Vintage Flower loom patterns and yarn flower making

Very often people get mixed up with flowers made with yarn made on a flower loom, and crocheted flowers. They do look similar at times,and very often loomed flowers are crocheted together to make shawls or afgans or throws, but they are made very differently.

The petals on a crochet flower have to be crocheted or chained and so therefore have a structure, but  a flower loom the flowers are made by wrapping yarns around posts and then securing the yarns in the centre- which means that you can see and feel the soft texture of the yarn you are using. The loops of yarn become the petals and are lifted over the posts at the end of the making.

Loomed flowers can be used for all sorts of things- as said, they can be crocheted together to make lots of pretty items- see some of the photos below- or they can be used on their own or in bunches to embellish accessories such as hats, bags and clothes. They can also be used individually as pins or brooches, or massed together to make corsages or even bouquets!

Take a look here at some of the patterns that we here at vintage visage provide on one of our Vintage flower loom making CDs-

You can make flowers from all types of yarns and they are excellent for using up odds and ends and scraps of yarn- you can even use strips of fabric or we have even seen them made from strips of plastic carrier bags- so they are a great way to recycle or upcycle lots of things...

Here are some of the vintage patterns to make lovely items- there are cushions, shawls, and items to wear- enjoy!

We sell the vintage patterns and the flower looms on the website- and we also sell the big knitting looms- the round ones we we think would be great for making huge flowers form strips of material as well as knitting...what do you think? Find them all by clicking here

 

1960s mod mini dress and suits crochet patterns- Twiggy

The 1960s was a wonderful time for fashion- the swinging 60s had really taken off in London and British  designers such as Mary Quant bought the mini skirt into vogue.  The mod scene took fashion to its heart- many top pop stars wore mod suits and the girls wore stylish mod fashions- and it wasn't long before the yarn companies bought out knitting and crochet leaflets  to enable everyone to make fab mod fashions at home

These patterns that Vintage Visage have sourced below are just a few of the 1960s fashions that we have on the website and in our ebay shop for you to make. Do you recognise the first model? yes- its Twiggy (we do have pictures of other celebrities who modelled knitting and crochet patterns- including James Bond- so please check back for more posts on that soon)- and doesn't she look so good in that fab suit? we have made the jacket on its own too and it looks great today with modern fashions and even jeans too.

As always with our posts- the link to these wonderful vintage patterns if you wish to purchase and make them is at the end of the photos- but you may just want to enjoy looking at these great dresses-feel free to pinterest them too!

We love this suit- it would fit in with todays looks as well as being a great outfit for mod and 1960s re-enactments 

This is a great and easy to make 1960s mod  shift dress-  only use 1 stitch plus the pretty edgings..

One for big sister and a matching one for little sister- or could it even be a young mum?- little girls loved to look like thier big sisters then- it was very common for sisters to have matching dresses (whether they liked it or not!)

We love this- its kind of a mod version of the hippy granny square look that came in vogue in the late 1960s too- if the skirt was longer and the fringes longer too- add a floppy hat and its very hippyish. But as it is, short and fun then again its very mod in style. if you made it in red , white and blue then it could be very patriotic and union jack like as well!

Find the Twiggy pattern and the others too here on ebay here now to buy, and on the website soon

Vintage 1940s Hand bag crochet patterns

We  sourced a lovely selection of very chic crochet handbag patterns which date from the wartime 1940s. These use really interesting shapes, and are very simple to make. The key to some of these patterns is to add stiff lining so that the wonderful shapes are kept - you can use buckram or stiff interlining fused onto a crisp cotton or linen. You could of course use a vintage print on the fabric which would make the lining very pretty and unusual.

Take a look at some of these fab pictures of the bags, and imagine them made in modern yarns, textures and colours- you could make some in stripes- the semi circle would look wonderful in stripes of colour, and/or texture, and the ones made from motifs could be fantastic in a huge range of bright colours- a wonderful way to use left over yarns....

As always with our blogs, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find a link to click to take you instantly to the downloadable patterns on the website. Have fun browsing the pictures first and imagining the yarns already in your stash that you are going to use to make them with......

This semi circle bag is so chic and wantable- it could be made in plain colours too- think of pale pastels or whites and creams.....

This 1940s clutch bag has a ripple effect in the pattern, which means  that if you change colour every row or couple of rows then you get a very pretty up and down ripple effect stripe....black, gray and white would be very chic, and lots of bright colours would be very boho and fun too.

This one is very easy to make- its just made from one simple motif repeated over and over again and then sewn together with sides and handles.Once you have made this one once, then you will easily be able to understand how to make similar shaped bags but ones bigger and smaller just by using more or less motifs....

Similar to make as the one above, but this time a different motif an bag shape- we like the idea somehow of this one made in autumnal colours such as golds, greens and rusts......

and another one made from motifs- we so love the angular shape of this one....

This one would make a great evening or daytime clutch bag- we love the shape and would you believe it is made in one piece only? We know some of you are reluctant sewers out there, and yes, we do understand that bad sewing up can make or break an item which you have so loving made- but this one we reckon you could get away without sewing by crocheting the sides together....just a thought!

This one too- we love the shape of this,its so cute and could be made for kiddies as well as for grown ups-

Another ripple worked crochet handbag pattern-you can see quite clearly the pretty undulating pattern- we think ripply stripes of black mohair inbetween black aran weight yarn would look fab for this one

heres another really chic yet simple bag to make- some of you we know worry about making handbags but these are ideal to try out whether you are a beginner or experienced as the will make great bags quite simply,e easily and uncomplicatedly! Actually, we are not even sure if 'uncomplicatedly' is an actual word, but it does go quite well in describing our attitude at Vintage Visage to making- we like to demystify vintage patterns as much as we can so that you can have a very positive making experience- remember- we offer an email backup service for all our patterns where we will answer any query you have. We are experienced tutors and so understand the worries and little mistakes that can crop up....

Find the 1940s crochet hand bag patterns here on our website- just click here and it will take you there direct by opening a new window....  there are several pages of them, more that we have shown here so do have fun browsing through....