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Detail Inspiration: Decorative tabs

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Love the idea of using decorative tabs on collars, cuffs, or pockets like these very different vintage dresses from Dear Golden and Fab Gabs.

Sarai Mitnick

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Sarai started Colette back in 2009. She believes the primary role of a business should be to help people. She loves good books, sewing with wool, her charming cats, working in her garden, and eating salsa.

Comments

MB@YarnUiPhoneApp

January 10, 2013 #

Decorative tabs! I’ve been thinking of doing this for a while in my sewing. Kwik Sew has this darling knit top on the neckline with tabs and a silk tie. I think you could pretty modify any deep scoop t-shirt pattern for tabs. But I love the idea. You can switch out ties…even use guy’s ties perhaps. I think it would be a great way to use some of the narrow ties you see at the thrift stores, the ones with mustard stains. Or even use ribbon ocassionally. But you’re so right tabs are used often in vintage sewing (I’ve seen it in knitting patterns too – there’s a darling knit Australian pattern from the 1930s that I’ve favorited in Ravelry that has ties). Oh one other idea re ties – knit some…some featherweight ones using a gauzy yarn like Kidsilk Haze would be dreamy.

Maggie

January 10, 2013 #

I love these inspiration posts! And that second dress is amazing! Thanks

Tasha

January 10, 2013 #

YES! I’ve been obsessed with decorative tabs since last year, but have yet to work them into anything. I particularly love the second example. I could see them on a Western-inspired vintage skirt, too!

Sarai

January 10, 2013 #

Ooh, good idea! There’s something about the pointed shape that does say western.

Ginny

January 10, 2013 #

I’ve just bought http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Simplicity_1340_A – I’m excited to get my tab on !

Sarai

January 10, 2013 #

Ack, that is too adorable! Like Peggy from Mad Men, but with a dash of Joan thrown in!

Liz

January 10, 2013 #

How coincidental, I just pinned this image from Downton Abbey yesterday to my inspiration board http://pinterest.com/pin/149955862564665714/ I love the tab detail and want to incorporate it on a long sleeve knit for winter.

Carie

January 11, 2013 #

That second dress is just fabulous – I love that era and the details are just perfect

Annie Sharkey

January 12, 2013 #

Yes, that second dress is a knockout, vintage and bang up to date, reminds me of something Colette Patterns might do!?

Meraj

January 13, 2013 #

Oh, I really like the single tab on the neck of the first dress. It turns an already gorgeous dress into something fun and slyly confident–and even a little silly (in a good way!).