Gracie Dress Tutorial
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Vintage inspired dress tutorial for self-drafted girls’ dress. It has a square neckline and full, gathered skirt. This version was made from a vintage sheet.
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Lydia's Sweetheart Dress Tutorial
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1950s style girls’ dress tutorial with a sweetheart neckline halter and twirly circle skirt. There is even a built in petticoat trimmed in coordinating bias tape!
Read MoreSunrise Dress Tutorial
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Tutorial for a 1950s vintage style dress with a boatneck, scoop back, and twirly hi low skirt. It was made from a vintage sheet and trims.
Read MoreBlushing Izzy Dress Tutorial
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Vintage inspired girls dress tutorial with a gathered, cross-front bodice, V back, zipper, and full, gathered skirt with a built in petticoat lining. It is made from vintage sheets.
Read MoreVintage Easter Dresses
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Oooh- the word "vintage" has become oh, so trendy.
Yes, I am jumping on the bandwagon.
It started out with this...
...two flat vintage sheets that my nana bought maybe in the 1970s and vintage trims, notions, and buttons given to me by some friends. The colors matched perfectly. There are 5 colors in the sheets (other than white) and I have 5 girls, so they each got their own accent color.
So, after 6 days of wild sewing, early Easter morning my girls were wearing new dresses from the vintage sheets that belonged to their great-great-grandmother.
I am so blessed to be able to do something special like this for my girls.
Tutorials coming soon(ish)...
***UPDATE*** Here are the tutorials and full posts for each dress!
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Grace's Quiet Book ~ Purse Page
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Last one! I think this might be Grace's favorite page. She likes little purses and apparently she likes makeup a whole lot, too. I thought she just loved eating chapstick, but this isn't edible, so that is not the case.
Again, purse quiet book pages are pretty common. I bet you can find a bunch of them on Pinterest. I kept mine simple and in line with the "shabby chic" theme of this book with the fabrics.
The handle is just fused on the background with heat'n'bond and a satin stitch holds it down.
The purse bottom was made out of three pieces. The front was cut and sewn onto the zipper, then the front and back were sewn right sides together and flipped through the handy zipper opening. I stitched the whole thing to the background very carefully about 1/8" from the edge.
Hmmm... I am having problems getting that pic to load on here, but hopefully you can see what I mean. In hindsight, I wish I had sewn the back with the right side facing in. Lots of "I should have done it that way" moments in this book. If you make one you can fix it, OK?
I didn't know what else to put inside the purse besides makeup. The extra flower from the flower page gets tucked inside and I have found a few small items laying around to toss in there, too. But she LOVES the pretend makeup!
The lipstick and compact are made from scraps of fabric and the little pad thingy is made of felt. Velcro on the compact would have been a nice touch. I may try to make eye shadow one day, but she insists on putting her pretend makeup on me during church and I don't want her to poke me in the eye.
So, that is it! I hope you enjoyed this series and maybe found a little inspiration. If you would like to see the rest of them you can click HERE. I put them all on one handy page.
Now, back to the Easter baskets!
Grace's Quiet Book- Button Flower Page
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OK. So the button flower page idea is pretty common. I have seen many examples on Pinterest so I am not gonna' cite just one. I did change it up just a bit for mine, though. Look closely...
See? The flowers are reversible! All I did was fuse two scraps of fabric together (some of them are truly vintage fabrics!) Then, I traced a flower and sewed along the line I traced. Very carefully, I trimmed about 1/8" away from the seam all around the flower shape. A quick buttonhole in the center and - TADA! - reversible flowers.
The stems are just green ric-rac and the leaves are made of felt. I used a contrasting fabric for the bottom to represent grass. I stitched some bright yellow buttons at the top of the "stems" to hold the flowers. Now I wish I would have used something a little more "vintage" or even plain white. This was one of the first pages I made, so I hadn't gotten carried away with the "shabby-chic-vintagey" look yet.
Grace hasn't quite mastered the whole button skill thing yet, but this is good practice. She can make patterns with the flowers and work on her colors, too. So, it is educational and cute. :)
I keep updating THIS page with links and pics of all of the quiet book pages in this little series so click HERE if you would like to see more.
If I get a moment or two, I will try to link up at these parties:
Sew Can Do, Motivate Me Monday, Take a Look Tuesday, Naptime Creations, Carolyn's Homework, Handmade Tuesdays, Inspire Me Wednesday, We Did It Wednesday, Adorned From Above, Your Whims Wednesday, Not Just a Housewife, Weekly Homemaking Party, Create It Thursday, The 36th Party, Friday Favs Party, Think Pink Sunday, and Threading Your Way.
