This little antique dress has been a great inspiration to me.
Don't you love the sweet collar?
The dress is a pale, pale pink, faded with age.
The pretty smocking is worked on fabric that is not gathered too much, giving it that old fashioned look that I love.
The buttonholes are stitched by hand. In fact, the entire dress is stitched by hand!
I love the embroidered rosebuds along the hem.
And it inspired me to include them on this little dress made from my Emma's Smocked Baby Dresses.
Next post I will show you a close up of the sleeves.
Until then...
join me for Pink Saturday.
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Jeannie, the antique dress is lovely, and I do like the embroidered rosebuds very much-don't they just make all the difference?
ReplyDeleteI've never done smocking before, but my wonderful dear seamstress mother did.
And the newer version of the dress is equally as lovely...I am convinced that nothing can beat handmade.
Have a gloriously happy pink day,
Mariannne
Beautiful! Love to be inspired by vintage items!
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