I don’t buy old clothes anymore, I don’t buy many ornaments anymore, I don’t buy books anymore, I don’t buy toys, very often, but I can’t resist paper patterns. I can’t resist these cheesy old eighties and nineties patterns. They take me back to a time when my mother and sister would make almost all of their own clothes. Paper patterns were relatively cheap and so was fabric. They were sewing all the time so they were quite expert and quick! It was cheaper to make clothes than to buy them. I’ve got two drawers full of these not very fashionable and not even beautiful old things. I kid myself that I’m going to get ideas or a basic shape from them at some time in the future, or maybe they will actually come back into fashion! I’ll probably end up sending them back to the opp shop.
