I Love a Bubble Bath/How to Make a Bath Mitt

Lovely Bath Mitt makes a very nice gift!

This Bath Mitt is  quick and easy and makes bath time more fun!

I published this in Creative Needle magazine many years ago for my Old Fashioned Baby column. 

I am stocked up on Bubble Bath and Bath Salts after Christmas.
I'm easy to buy for!

I love a long, hot  and relaxing  bath! 

It's Therapy!! 

You can make this mitt with or without Embroidery.

1.   Cut Terry Cloth 9 1/4" long  X 12 1/2" wide

2.   Finish the lower edge (the 12 1/2" length) with pretty cotton bias binding cut 1" X 12 1/2".

For information about how to cut  bias binding see this  Pricilla's Layette  Lesson  Post.   Sew the bias binding  to the fabric using a 1/4" Seam allowance. For help with stitching and finishing bias binding see this Pricilla's Layette Post.  You would not, of course, press the binding into the shape of the neck edge, as for the Daygown.  But the stitching and finishing are the same.

3.   With right sides together, stitch the side seam, then the top seam.

Overcast the raw edges or serge the seam.

Embroider if desired.  Place the embroidery 1" from finished edge.  I used three evenly spaced Flower groups of 2 Lazy Daisies per group or flowers of your choice.    Connect the Flowers with the Running Stitch as I have done. Use three strands of Floss and an #8 Crewel Needle.

Give with a pretty bar of Soap!

A Really Cute Sewing Shop!

Oh, I see "Emma's Smocked Baby Dresses" pattern!

 The BessieMary Heirloom Sewing Shop is located in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.  Jan, the owner has been filling her shop full of fabric, patterns, books, lace and other treasures just for you!

2300 Highland Village Road, Suite 300

Highland Village, Texas 75077

972.317.3950

www.bessiemary.com.

 

I know many ladies who take Sewing Shop tours!  What fun that would be!

Wouldn't you like to touch that fabric?

 

It is so much easier and so much more fun to go to a REAL Heirloom Sewing Shop. It is so nice to compare the different fabric types and to see the actual hue of the colors.  You get to see the patterns made into samples using really cute fabric.  And you have someone available to help you bounce your ideas off of.

And Jan carries all of the Old Fashioned Baby patterns!

So, Support Your Local Shop!!

(if you are lucky enough to have one)

Beautiful Antique Button Cards

One gross (=12 dozen or 144 buttons) Circa 1915 Mother of Pearl Buttons on  cards.

These buttons were made in Austria prior to World War I.  Notice the buttons were hand sewn on the cards!

 See the Made In Austria stamp on the back of the card.

 

Each card has a letter to identify them in this picture.

This picture is for a fellow button lover who purchased a card at a market and has used them up.  If you don't see a card of the buttons you have now, they are Gone, Gone, Gone! But they are all beautiful. All are in short supply.  Some are shorter supply than others.  I bought all of them  the first time I saw them. I love them.   I will try to get them for sale on my Web site  sooner or later. They are going with me to market.