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Skiff Vintage Patterns was started up at the beginning of 2009. Born out of a passion for the fashions of the 1940s and 1950s, I combined it with my die-hard love of knitting.

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Archive for October 18th, 2008 »

Retro kitschen

Retro kitchen fabric

Retro kitchen fabric

Seem to have developed a bit of a craze for retro kitchen fabric of late and, as ever, Ebay is supplying my need.  Not quite sure what I’m going to do with it yet but I like the theme.  Cushions seem too ordinary and a bit of a dull use of such great fabric, I keep seeing these great pieces of fabric made up into cushions on Ebay and it seems a bit of a shame.  Having said that, many of the surviving fabric from this time can be only be bought in scraps so there’s not an awful lot more you can do with them, so you never know.  Something more substantial would be cool, so I might have to look for some more chairs to do up.

The bottom  piece you can see is a pair of curtains so quite a lot to play around with there, might even keep them as curtains.