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Hello! I'm Suzannah, a serious DIYer and mom of two little ones. Follow along with my DIY fixer upper house renovations, sewing and crafty projects, real food recipes, and de-stressing goals.
I believe you can love your home just the way it is, AND have the power to design and make big changes to make it better.
I'm also the author of DIY Wardrobe Makeovers!

LOTS of vintage patterns!


I have too many vintage patterns.
Too many.  How can this be, you ask?  How could I possible have too much of a good thing?

I have bought vintage patterns over the years, in eras from the 1950's through the 1980's and usually women's clothing in average-woman sizes.  A couple times I have received someone's mother's collection or something as a gift.  I can use them, yes!  And I soooo appreciate them.  Some of them I have made into cute clothes!  Sometimes I buy vintage patterns, too, since there are so many cute styles!  But now I have too many.  Yes, too many.

Our townhouse is about 900 square feet, and I don't really have a sewing room.  The patterns live in the closet of the spare bedroom/my fiance's office, in boxes and organized by brand and era.  Here's some of them:
That's about 1/3 of what I have.  These above are the 1970's Simplicities, mostly, men's and women's.  I have boxes of others including a bunch of Vogues and some cute Buttericks and McCall's.  Most of them are in good shape and about half are uncut.

Here's my question: I know I have more than I need.  I don't want to sell each one individually, but I also don't want to just give them all to Goodwill where they may not be appreciated.  I have some of the collectible/more designer Vogue ones for sale in my Etsy shop, but there are just too many to do this for individually!
What should I do??

I am thinking about trying to sell them as groups--rather than getting $4-8 for a vintage 70's Simplicity dress pattern, for example, I could sell a group of 5 Simplicity patterns from the same era and in the same size for $10, so about $2 each.  Would any of you be interested in such a thing?  I would pick the five, of course, but you could pick which set you wanted based on what was in it.  They all sort of go together nicely as a theme... here are four randomly chosen ones that, if they're all the same size 12 or 16 or whatever, could be a nice little package!
Love that tie blouse pattern!  Totally back in style.  And the formal dress pattern would be really cute made knee-length.  And the blazer is timeless!

Anyway, I'd love your thoughts on what you'd be most interested in.  I would love to share the great vintage pattern goodness with you!  Help me share the bounty and use my closet for other things!

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