Baby Layette Daygown - per Suzette

Baby  Layette Daygown

Suzette made this Daygown using a design I did for my Old Fashioned Baby column I wrote for Creative Needle Magazine (March/April 1998).

It is just sweetness in a baby gown!!

The yoke featured tucks with lace insertion positioned between them.  On either side of the lace is Featherstitching and the embroidery is Pinwheel Posies.  Pinwheel Posies are an easy alternative to Bullion Roses and also can be considered a more tailored flower.

Suzette's work is lovely.

The sleeve is my favorite part of the gown. 

 It is a pretty little touch that I had seen in an old daygown.

I had given my Daygown away and forgot how very pretty it is.

I need to make another one, I think!

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A Friend Makes a Pink Daygown

This lovely pink Daygown was made by my Friend. 

She used my Baby Layette pattern.

Do you remember I showed you this post not long ago?

She was stitching it.

She had it finished in a matter of days, just as I knew she would.

This Friend is the girl who told me she COULD NOT do Featherstitching.  And she wouldn't even try for the longest time! 

 Now, if you tell me you can't learn Featherstitching...I am not listening to you!

She had even made a second Daygown from a different pattern by the time I got to see this pink one.  

I'll show you next time.

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Pretty Blue Baby Bonnet.

This Baby Bonnet features a fabric tie instead of Ribbon.

Todays Baby Bonnet comes from my OFB pattern "Baby Layette".

Although I did make up a different design than the pattern Bonnet, the basic bonnet is the same.  Fabric is Swiss Nelona Batiste.

I love this zig zag Baby Lace Insertion.

I used the Tuck Guide that is included in the pattern for the French Daygown.  Then I used an embroidery design from My Embroidery  Book and stitched Lace Insertion on either side of the Tucks.

I stitched a Fancy Entredeux to the bonnet edge (which is unlined - unlike the pattern) and wove soft pink embroidery floss through each hole of the entreduex.

Added softly gathered Lace Edging to the ends of the Bonnet Ties, which I have hand sewn (easy peasy to do!).

I folded the upper part of the Bonnet Tie  into tiny pleats and wrapped floss around it to keep it all together and then stitched it onto the Bonnet edge.  And sewed a pretty old Pearl button on top of it.

The Bonnet Crown had the same pretty treatment of Tucks and Lace (again, using the Tuck Guide in the pattern).

I think Pinstitching the Lace to the fabric would make this Baby Bonnet extra lovely.

"Beautiful Bonnets are welcome in Babys' wardrobe year round and can serve  a useful purpose.  They keep baby warm in cold  weather, and shade the eyes in  summer.  Bonnets accent  Baby's pretty face as well!"

All Designs Are Copyright Protected copyright 2011 Jeannie Baumeister