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kcwc: Day seven - Emily's nightie

October 14, 2012


On my final day of sewing for the Kids clothes week challenge I made this little summer nightie for Emily.  She generally wears wondersuits to bed but with the weather warming up I thought a nightie would be cute.


I used an old Style pattern of Mum's - just a basic peasant style with elasticated bias around neck and arms and a small button opening at the back.  I threaded elastic through the bias binding and secured it with machine stitching at each end of armholes and neck.

I love nighties. My three girls all went off to bed tonight in a homemade nightie!

Project details
Pattern - Style 2361, View 4
Fabric - Japanese lawn from Spotlight on special for $10 per metre
Cost - $5
Time taken - Just over an hour

I've had lots of fun this week sewing for the challenge.  I have also enjoyed discovering some new sewers.  You can check out the Elsie Marley flickr pool for hundreds of creations made this week.

Nighties

Big lady skirt becomes little girl nightie

November 15, 2011

Another summer nightie for Isabella.  This one I recycled from a very large skirt I rescued when tigying up our playgroup dress up basket - there's no way a little kid could walk in this thing without tripping up...
so I thought I'd put it to better use!
Isabella was particularly difficult to photograph (she is usually very obliging) for this 'shoot'.  I took 20 or so photos but the best ones were of her up top and of her photographing the paparazzi!
I made the pattern up and the sleeves sort of 'evolved' but I think they work.  Isabella loves wearing her new nighties to bed and she looks lovely and floaty and ready for sleepy land when she trots off to bed.

Japanese patterns

Japanese nightie

October 22, 2011


With the days and nights warming up I have realised Isabella has nothing but flanelette pj's which are getting to be a bit warm.  So I decided to make her some summer nighties.  I loved wearing nighties as a little girl and still remember a couple of them.


This is the first of her nighties.  Very feminine and light to wear.


The pattern comes from this gorgeous book I borrowed from my sister...



Gorgeous patterns, but the only problem is, the instructions are all in Japanese!


Luckily, the pattern was fairly straight forward and I was able to piece everything together without instructions (it also helped that my sister had made a few of these dresses and I was able to look at one of hers as a guide).


The white cotton has a light floral pattern on it (also white).  Both fabrics are from Spotlight. Total cost was about $5!!