The Pattern Treasury

Absolute Genius but so disheartening it even had to be invented 🥹

A bulletproof room is being piloted in an Alabama elementary school.

Everyone who has ever sewn has a tomato pincushion... our Grandmothers, mothers, aunts, literally everybody, and I wondered why. Well, according to folklore, people once thought the tomato was a symbol of good fortune and prosperity so when people moved into a new home they placed a tomato on the mantle. Since tomatoes are only seasonal, the ladies would create them from fabric and fill them with leaves and things from the outdoors.

During this same era the ladies did all the sewing for their families and their hand needles were very important, so they placed their important hand needle in their fabric “good luck” tomato and the tomato pin cushion was born. When I think of the pin cushion, I see my grandmother’s wrinkled hands, the bright red tomato next to her, sewing away. The tomato may not bring prosperity and good fortune but it definitely has nostalgia. 🍅

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🌸🌸Sure Fit Design Dress Kit🌸🌸

🌸Sized 28’-62”in/72.0. -157.5cm

🌸A complete kit consisting of the necessary -

🌸Master patterns,
🌸Tools
🌸Instruction book
🌸Templates

Sew an entire wardrobe if great fitting personalized clothes, structured to fit your body shape and size

$30.00
Pickup Mudgeeraba or post at buyers expense

👗 Lumina Steam Press
👗Model PSP 990
👗1350 watt
👗Thermostat Control
👗300ml water cap
👗Excellent condition
👗Very little use
👗Non stick cover in excellent condition
👗$50.00
👗Pick up Mudgeeraba

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Aimed principally at the professional cutter, these volumes contain no style illustrations but presents instructions by way of paired pages; the right hand page bearing the draft diagram and the left hand page the instructions for plotting it.

Moving on to the system, the author uses the Divisional Breast Measurement system which is a proportional one, relying upon the average figure and the ratio of measurements that may be calculated with reasonable accuracy from just the one basic measurement - in this case the bust.

All the drafts are given for a figure having a 36" bust and a 38" hip measurement (no waist measurement is given as this would rarely be needed for a coat draft) and allows 2.5" ease on each.

The drafts themselves are expert and sympathetic to the human form, a detail often lost in modern drafting

There is no table of contents so I will go through the book itself and list the drafts in the order in which they appear:

🌺Volume I
Diagrams 1 & 2 - Six-Seam, Semi-Fitting Coat
Diagrams 3 & 4 - Straight or Swagger Coat
Diagrams 5, 6 & 7 - Three different Seam Sleeve drafts
Diagrams 8 & 9 - Collars and Lapels
Diagram 10 - Peter Pan Collar
Diagram 11 - Collar & Lapel Cut Through Shoulder
Diagram 12 - Semi-Fitted Coat, Darted
Diagram 13 - Swing Back Swagger Coat
Diagram 14 - Swing Back Swagger with Yoke
Diagram 15 - Swing Back Swagger
Diagram 16 - Semi-Fitted with Flared Back

🌺 Volume ll
follows and covers Mantles, Raglans, Strap Shoulders, Drop Shoulders, Kimonos and Deep Armholes.
Diagrams 1 & 2 - Two Seam Swagger Raglan
Diagram 3 - Raglan One-Seam Sleeve
Diagram 4 - Raglan Two-Sleeve Sleeve
Diagram 5, 6 & 7 - Raglan Variations No 1 & 2
Diagrams 8 & 9 - Strap Shoulder Coat
Diagram 10 - Strap Shoulder Coat One-Seam Sleeve
Diagram 11 - Strap Shoulder Coat Two-Seam Sleeve
Diagrams 12 & 13 - Drop Shoulder Coat Semi-Fitted
Diagram 14 - Drop Shoulder Coat One-Seam Sleeve
Diagrams 15 & 16 - Kimono Semi-Fitting
Diagrams 17 & 18 - Yoke and Drop Shoulder, Two-Seam Swagger, Deepened Armhole
Diagram 19 - Yoke and Drop Shoulder, Deepened Armhole, One Piece Sleeve
Diagram 20 - Deep Armhole Coat, Yoke Back and Front
Diagram 21 - Deep Armhole Coat, Sleeve

🌺Published 1949

🌺Will be of interest to Vintage Dressmakers

🌺 Each of the volumes are $30.00 each but if bought together $50.00

🌺Postage at buyers expense

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🌸🌸Ladies’ Garment Cutting & Making by F R Morris🌸🌸

🌸A Standard Textbook Giving Instruction in all
Branches of Ladies Garment Cutting, Dress
Cutting, Modelling and Practical Tailoring
🌸Diagrams and Fashion by
Leonora Curry
🌸Circa 1940
🌸3rd Edition
This hardback consists of 463 pages in good, clean condition
🌸 Contents included in photos
🌸364+ Illustrations
🌸 A complete wealth of knowledge for the vintage dressmaker
🌸Extremely hard to get books of this era and condition
🌸$90.00 plus postage at buyers expense
🌸Photos & info in comments

🌿🌿SOLD🌿🌿

🌿Scientific Designing of Womens Clothes
🌿By Gaeton J Lapick

🌿Vintage 1940s book on dressmaking pattern grading / drafting

🌿A classic volume on pattern design/grading. A relatively scarce publication

🌿Scientific Designing will bring you into a eorld of rich experiance in the art of designing

🌿3rd edition 1945

🌿Contents and illustrations list in photos

🌿$30.00 plus postage at buyers expense

Vintage Fabric

🌸Info in photos
🌸Description of fabric is best of my ability 🙃
🌸Prefer not to cut
🌸$10.00 p/m
🌸Post at buyers expense

🌸Vintage Fabric
🌸Various lengths
🌸Prefer not to cut
🌸All info in comments
🌸Best guess at fabric types
🌸Happy to provide larger photos
🌸$10.00 p/m
🌸Postage arrange at buyers expense

If you have a sewing room, these look great on the wall.

✂️Reproduction tin sign of Butterick Scissor advertising
✂️They are A4 size, 20 x 30cm.
✂️I am selling at wholesale price of $7.00 plus postage

Who is going to have the best dressed little boy in Australia??
Our wonderful member of
The Pattern Stashers,

thats who🤩
Two patterns purchased from me created this fab vintage shirt and overalls.
Megan is never scared to experiment with fabrics, patterns or colours. She is brave and always ends up with a vintage vibe.
Both of these patterns are late 50’s if my memory serves me well.
I particularly like the overall fabric which looks like ticking that was used on the old kapok mattresses. Now I’m showing my age 🤪
Have a look at the beautiful topstitching around the pockets.
Wonderful work as usual Megan and best of luck with the birth of your lucky little boy in a couple of weeks.

Let me intoduce Wood aka Willow-mae Longbrew aka Duck Costuming.
Caitlin is one busy lady as she runs her own business and is also a member of LARP
I had to ask what this was
and it is the Live Action Role Play group.
This group have weekend get togethers where they stage war on each other plus eat and be merry.
Stepping back in time is the intention and costumes are made with attention to detail. This is Willow-Mae Longbrew’s past time when she isn’t role playing ❤️
Here are some examples of her work.
If anyone else is involved in Live Role Play or the Theatre please feel free to share your costumes as it is another interest to alot of us 👗

Some more show and tell from our stasher
who has been busy again.
Looking gorgeous in this Butterick dress and hat, she reminds me of Kate Winslet🤩
Megan made the hat from vintage scraps and gives it a very luxurious look with a green velvet chin strap bow.
I especially like the moss green accent used on the sleeves. It gives a very vintage look accompanied by a very pretty floral print.
Pattern is McCalls M8212
which Megan gives
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
AND it has pockets👏

Megans elder daughter, Eleanor, has been working on a new top. She has ended up lengthening the blouse as it was the middle view and she found it too short so she is making the right hand view
A twirling video is in comments. Looks fabulous on you Eleanor.
I think it’s great that sewing has made a comeback.
Please share your sons/daughters makes and grandkids if you teaching them any craft

One of our fellow pattern stashers, Megan Edwards, has been busy whipping up a fabulous little number today for her beautiful daughter Vera.
The Pattern is Vintage Style 2258 from 1978.
Vera decided on the very feminine shoulder ruffle and it was sewn in a Liberty fabric she chose two years ago.
Megan said her daughter has expensive taste but I think you will agree, she just has style 🤩
Thanks Megan and Vera for allowing me to share this beautiful dress and hope it inspires others to showcase their projects
What do you think everyone?

🌼🌼Grand Opening Sale🌼🌼
🌼9.45am - 12.00pm
🌼Lot 3

Mixed Brand Children’s Patterns

🌺 Photos in comments
🌺All patterns will be checked before purchase
🌺$4.00 each
🌺$2.20 regular postage
🌺$5.75 minimum tracked
🌺DD preferred

🌺PLEASE TAKE NOTE🌺

🌺If demand is high, it will take time to check them but I will contact everyone 🌺

🌼🌼Grand Opening Sale🌼🌼
🌼9.45am - 12.00pm
🌼Lot 2

Mixed Brand Patterns

🌺 Photos in comments
🌺All patterns will be checked before purchase
🌺$4.00 each
🌺$2.20 regular postage
🌺$5.75 minimum tracked
🌺DD preferred

🌺PLEASE TAKE NOTE🌺

🌺If demand is high, it will take time to check them but I will contact everyone 🌺

🌼🌼Grand Opening Sale🌼🌼
🌼9.45am - 12.00pm
🌼Lot 1

Mixed Brand Patterns

🌺 Photos in comments
🌺All patterns will be checked before purchase
🌺$4.00 each
🌺$2.20 regular postage
🌺$5.75 minimum tracked
🌺DD preferred

🌺PLEASE TAKE NOTE🌺

🌺If demand is high, it will take time to check them but I will contact everyone 🌺

🌼9.45am - 12.00pm
🌼17/2022
🌼All patterns listed will be $4.00ea regardless of brand or age.
🌼Patterns available are from vintage thru to modern
🌼There will be several listings during the day and bundles are welcome to reduce postage costs
🌼$4.00 ea plus postage
🌼 Direct Deposit preferred

❤️ Women’s Patterns ❤️

🌺 Photos in comments
🌺All patterns will be checked before purchase
🌺$8.00 each
🌺$2.20 regular postage
🌺$6.15 minimum tracked
🌺DD preferred

Welcome to the Pattern Treasury, a place to get the creative juices flowing for everyone that has a love of sewing.
I have created this business so I may continue to enjoy the freedom of working from home doing something I love.
I started by selling my own stash of patterns and had such a wonderful response I decided to source patterns from all over Australia.
This has resulted in “virtually” meeting many wonderful people who both sell and buy from me with friendships struck from the most unlikely places.
In the past I have been honoured to be shown photos of new babies, precious grandchildren and of course weddings.
My mission is to continue to make available both Vintage and Modern, Womens,Mens and Children’s Patterns.
Ideally I would also like to include articles on fashion thru the years and sewing techniques that may be of interest.
If you have suggestions please message me as I would like this to be of interest for everyone.
In the coming weeks there will be vintage fabric, lace and books subject to availability.
Once my page is up and running smoothly I intend arrange giveaways and eventually start a separate sister page so you can post your creations made from patterns sourced from
I am sure that we would all enjoy seeing what is made no matter what skill level as we all love a little encouragement.
My personal sewing passion is baby’s and children’s clothes so I will be watching for these 🤩
I hope you enjoy perusing the patterns as they are posted and I would appreciate you all spreading the word to all your creative friends
Finally a huge thankyou for your continuing support and I look forward to the new friendships to be made between us. 🥰