So far I've made 6yr old grand-daughter a Sun-dress
Had fun with the 2 sizes of this print and the pale green really suits my GD.
However, I was really glad I checked the bodice before I sewed it up - it would've nearly fitted me! Added some tucks (had to remove 7cm - 2.8" in width) then we went to All Buttons Great & Small (love that shop!) and got buttons to match the fabric.
The pattern looks recent though I found it 2nd hand - Simplicity 2994.
Grandson loves buttons too ... he really liked the bow-tie buttons and we decided one
would look OK on the hat I made him last year (a fabric 'spy' hat or Humphrey Bogart hat) - especially if we also put some feathers there
...Back home we got out the box of feathers and he chose this collection ... a partial red-dyed chicken feather, a tuft of white ostrich, a tan brown chicken feather that curves the wrong way and a spotty guinea fowl feather .... I must say that all together they look really cool.
I'm also making daughter a race-day hat -
Well it isn't going to look like that - though I really like that wind-swept look. I blocked that very old felt (a failed hat) it'll be the base / the foundation ... covered with fabric and lots of frou-frou.
And here is the collection of fabric & flowers & frou-frou sitting on the dress
Now, this might be one of the cheapest hats ever - the felt & wire were an old millinery failure, the fabrics & veiling were 'gleaned' from the rubbish bins at Tafe, some of the flowers were gifted, some bought about 30yrs ago. The only 'new-buy' for this hat was the blue bell shaped flowers ($2.50 for the bunch).
So happy to be able to make something from all the stash that I can now find with ease following the great big tidy-up. And perhaps an advert for never throwing stuff out ??? though 30yrs maturation in stash could be seen as a little excessive.
Of course, when 'gleaning' from bins you find that trash sometimes needs a little TLC to restore to 'Treasure'.
A bit of steam will restore a battered silk rose -
Careful ironing can restore old veiling -
The finished hat (shown on an old 'head' shape that has no hair!)
