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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Antique Toddler Creations - Dotted Swiss

This dress was made by Sherry for her Granddaughter.

The pattern, Antique Toddler Dresses is being currently featured on my blog.

Her dress is Beautifully Done!!

The hem is exquisite.

To see more of this dress…..go to the previous post.

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Antique Christening Bonnet Class Sample

I wanted to show my completed sample for  SAGA French Handsewn Bonnet class I am teaching at National Convention.  I am well pleased!  It needs a gown to be complete.  What gown to make?

 

 

The History of the Pricilla Daygown

I thought you might be interested in the history of the Daygown we are making from the pattern, "Priscilla's Layette".  This  pattern was inspired by an antique Daygown.  The original, View 1 - Classic Style was made for baby Priscilla, born in 1909, by her mother Maude.  The  hand worked stitches were fine, the hand made tatting was tiny and the love and care stitched into the little garment is apparent.  It was, of course, styled for a boy or girl baby.  This was a time before ultrasounds.  The only way to find out if baby was a boy or girl was to have  someone tie your  wedding ring on to a string and let it swing over your tummy.  Everyone would watch  to see the direction it spun.  " If a wedding ring or needle suspended over your belly moves in a strong circular motion, you’re having a girl. If it moves to and fro like a pendulum, you’re having a boy"  excerpt from an article on Amazon.com.
The drafted pattern and embroidery are my own but the inspiration came from the creation of Priscilla's Mother.  The daygown was shared with me by Maude's Grandaughter (Priscilla's daughter), my friend, Ann.

Picture of Ann as a little girl.  Sewing, of course!

  When you make this little gown, think about Maude and baby Priscilla.

Cheryl made Priscilla's "For A Christmas Baby" Daygown.

Cheryl  from time-really-does-fly  really did it.  And she did it so well.

She has made the little Priscilla's Layette daygown for A Christmas Baby. She went right to the finish!  It is lovely and I am so pleased to see it.

You can see it too.  Visit Cheryl's blog.

Sewing a Baby Daygown - The Beginning

First we must gather the tools we need to begin our Daygown.  We will need fabric, straight pins, scissors, a ruler, pattern weights and we need a sewing pattern.

 Pattern - I have chosen the Old Fashioned Baby Pattern "Priscilla's Layette", (View 2 shown above in white fabric  with blue bias binding at the neck and sleeves). Besides being a really cute little Daygown, it has raglan sleeves. They are simple to sew and they fit different size babies very well because they do not have shoulder seams.  I will use View 2 for my first project.

            Christmas Baby Daygown

 In this picture you see the pattern, five Mother of Pearl Baby Daygown buttons and the white Lawn fabric I have chosen.  I am making this for a Christmas baby so I will use red/microcheck fabric for the bias binding at the neck and sleeves.  You also see the spool of white thread I use for sewing.  I have selected 2 skeins of floss for the embroidery, although at this point I don't know what design I will use.   You can find this put together as a kit for you and can choose the red shown here or blue or pink for the bias binding. 

Fabric - I love cotton! It breaths and it is so comfortable. We want our baby to be comfortable as well as beautiful in his clothes!  You just have to feel so sorry for those little babies who are dressed in jeans. I think their parents should get into bed fully dressed (in jeans) and stay there 24 hours a day for several days so they will really know how uncomfortable their little one is.   Our Daygown will be a soft Cotton Lawn.

Notions - Don't skimp on quality. If you purchase inferior products, you'll have inferior results. I recommend thin "Silk" straight pins with a glass head, good quality cutting shears and a ruler. I like to use my Wrist Pincushion to hold the pins because it is so handy but any Pincushion will work.


 Below are some of my favorite Pincushions, given to me by  friends and students. I love Pincushions!!