Daygowns Featured in this cute Design Book.

I love Daygowns.  

And I have just the Daygown Patterns to use to stitch some of these  cute designs!

How To Make Handmades for your Baby.

It's toot sweet!

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How To Make Handmades for your Baby - Book

Design Book:  How To Make Handmades for your Baby.

A peek at the inside of this book.  There are 96 pages in all.

All of them are inspiring and cute!

Spiral Bound Design book.

Available on my OFB website for the special price of $12.00

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If You Don't Have it..You Need It!!

This is a book full of ideas for design and embellishments.

I didn't write it or print it.  

But I love it.

It's right down my alley!

Nowhere does it tell you who the author is.  

A mystery.

Text is taken from the inside of the book.

I now have it on my OFB website for sale.

Retail and Wholesale at a special price.

Click to enlarge to see the Table of Contents.

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Sewing at Farmhouse Fabrics.

The great class room at Farmhouse Fabrics.

We were in a wonderful Class Room.  

Full of natural light and great artificial light too.

Boy, is a lot of light great for stitching!

One of the ladies was taking notes in class.

Taking notes about machine settings will come in very handy later.

I recommend you always take notes when stitching.

Keep them in a special sewing notebook. 

...to be continued more….

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Heirloom Sewing Market

All set up and ready for market.

  Beauty Pins are getting hard to come by and were in great demand.  

We sold out of them within the first hour.

Being at the Heirloom Sewing Market is always inspiring.  I wish we also had a Retail portion to the show.  I know there are not shops in all areas of the country and many of you would welcome the opportunity to shop "in person".

For those of you near shops, visit your shop to see what they bought back from Market.  Market is about more than Merchandise, it's also about inspiration and ideas.

Your shop will come back with new ideas for you!

Have Fun.

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Cute Smocked Dress.

Photo taken at It's Sew Heavenly. (fabric and trim available there too)

This cute smocked dress is made from the OFB pattern

Emma's Smocked Baby Dresses.

Trimmed collar, puffed sleeve with bias binding and smocking.

It's a winning combination!

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Pretty Baby in Smocked Dress

This little doll is wearing a baby dress made from the OFB pattern:

Baby's Smocked Layette.

Another picture taken at It's Sew Heavenly (fabric available there too)

Oh, it's true!

Babies who wear garments made from The Old Fashioned Baby patterns are well and smiling.

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A Christmas Daygown and My Good Brown Dog

This photo bears repeating!!    

Talk about "Sweet Dreams"!!

I threaded floss  through the holes of the  entredeux part of the Swiss Edging.

For those thinking about sewing for a Christmas Baby I wanted to remind them of Baby's Frist Daygown pattern.  Its cute and easy.

Here it is made from yummy Swiss Flannel fabric.  Soft and fine and brushed for warmth.  Not at all like the heavy flannel.

I lengthened the daygown so I could add a ribbon and cover baby's little feet.

The instructions for adding length and a casing are in the Sew Beautiful Magazine Nov/Dec 2011

I used Bias Binding at the neck, red and green Christmas floss and red ribbon to make it Christmas.

On another important note....

Me, Strider and the two wonderful Dog Obedience instructors

My Brown Dog passed the test and is now a "Canine Good Citizen"!!

What a good dog you are, Strider!!!

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French Handsewers Saga Guild Finishes Daygown Program

Sweet and Simple Daygown made from Fairy Fabric.

We finished our Daygown Program (and began our Bonnet series).

A few ladies are very enthusiastic and finished matching Bonnets already!

Beautiful!

Suzette pin stitched the edge of the Bonnet Tie.

The tie was folded over and sewn to the Bonnet, then a Bullion was stitched over the thread.

And added a very cute touch where the tie is attached to the Bonnet.

It was so much fun to see all the different Daygowns.

Another matching Bonnet already completed!

Everyone had their own style.

So each Daygown looked different, even though we all used the same pattern.

Bullion Roses between the Buttons.

Baby Daygowns are the perfect garment for babies. They are the most comfortable thing a baby can wear and very practical for changing all those diapers!

 As a friend of mine told her son when he balked at putting his newborn son in a Daygown....."He is coming home from the hospital with a bloody naval and gauze around his newly performed circumcision.....would YOU want to be wearing bluejeans?"

She had no argument after that blunt statement!

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Saga Retreat Was Great Fun!

Jane Brisco, Cindy Foose and Gail Doane waiting for our flight.

The Saga Retreat started for me at the Detroit Airport.  

I met up with Sewing Friends for the final flight into State College, PA.

My Friday class was "Daygown Design and Application"

I loved this 9 hour class.

We learned how to change about a pattern to get different looks.

Then the students began designing their own Daygowns.

It was like Project "Daygown" Runway!!

There were great ideas being formed and I enjoyed seeing the creative process go to work!

 

This will be the Daygown back.  It will have the center pleat at the back with a tuck on either side of the center pleat.  I love this look!

A sleeve was designed and stitched in class!

She used the Shadow Embroidered Bows from my Embroidery Book.

Someone brought in Daygowns she had made using my pattern "Sweet and Simple Baby Daygown Collection".

Love the color choices.

I love it when students bring in garments they made using my OFB patterns!!

This design is on page 30 of my Embroidery Book.

The Daygowns had slips. 

 The ruffle on this slip was finished with the Shell Hem.

Very pretty and economical too!

A pretty touch of lace was added at the hem on this Daygown.

The lace design came from my Baby Daydresses Pattern.

Her garments were all very pretty and a delight to see.

Each teacher had a small market in their Teaching Room after class.

That was fun, too!

more to come about the Saga Retreat...

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Saga Convention - Market

This was a very popular booth. 

 The Lace Man had three tables piled high with nicely priced lace.

Judith Adams in front of her booth!

You would love her Kangaroo Scissors.

They are called Scissoroo's.  And I have some!!!

Susan O'Conner from Country Bumpkin and Gail Doane.

Always interesting things here!  

Anna Marie stands among some of Peanut Butter and Jelly Kids pretty wares. 

A delight to your sewing senses!

And me.

I had a booth filled with buttons, kits, patterns and lots of neat things that I'm sure you needed!

Marlene and Robin.

These two wonderful ladies were my Booth Fairies and helped me during the market.

Thank you Booth Fairies!

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