Crafting Vintage Glamour

Finding vintage knitting patterns to fit over a 34-36 inch/86-91.5 cm chest can be a hard slog, however www.subversivefemme.com has free patterns from the 1920s-1960s available on her website, including vintage patterns for busts over 38 inches/96.5 cm. Below are images and links to six patterns from the 1930s to fit a 40 inch/101.5 cm bust and over. 1930s Cardigan with Check Pattern - to fit 46 inch / 117 cm chest Curvy Month 8: 1930s Cardigan with Check Pattern - Subversiv

This is another beautiful 1940s pattern from my own collection and the third vintage knit I sized up for myself. Though the design looks complicated, the whole jumper is knitted in moss stitch, and the criss-cross pattern is achieved by threading the coloured yarn through the purl stitches. The pattern asks for UK no.9 needles which in metric 3.75mm needles, and originally uses 3 ply yarn, but based on the needle size and tension given, I bought a 4 ply cone of lambswool from

Back to 2023 when I still had waist length hair, I wanted to wear my hair in vintage styles without having to having to have it cut. Back in the 1920s and 30s when bobbed and short hair became fashionable, a number of women with long hair didn't want to chop off their locks, and there were several articles from the time showing women how to achieve a bob hair style without the need for scissors. Below is a step by step of how I did a vintage faux bob style on my long hair. Eq