I like old patterns because they are full of memories.  Memories of a more elegant time.  Memories of my Grandmother and my Mother, not to mention memories of my youth.

When you sit down with a box full of old vintage patterns, it’s like a box of Cracker Jack, you never know what you’ll find.  Perhaps a swatch of cloth, or rusty straight pins, or notations about how the pattern fit or in some cases, didn’t fit.  Then trying to pin point a date is a mystery in it’s self.  After a while you have a good idea from the styling and the graphics and the price, but it’s still fun to try to narrow it down.  Is that beauty from 1935 or 1939? 

With a little help from a lot of friends and by collecting information from vintage Magazines and Catalogs, plus paying attention and taking tedious notes on patterns that have been in my hands with copyright dates, I’ve put together a pretty comprehensive dating guide.  So come visit and take a walk down Memory Lane and wallow in the nostalgia of forgotten times. 

Darrell and Rita Holcomb own and operate their own website, cemetarian where they offer one of the biggest and best selections of vintage and out of print sewing patterns, clothing, jewelry, vintage magazine advertisements, vintage postcards, vintage photos and vinyl phonograph records.