More little dresses and show and tell.

Sewing always gives me pleasure and for some reason it calms me and makes me think the world is a wonderful place.

Stroking and stashing fabric is another thing that gives me pleasure. I love looking at the beautiful designs on the fabrics and the lovely colours too.

When I used to sew dresses etc. for my daughter, Zoei, when she was little, there wasn't a lot of different prints, so adding lace, smocking, ribbon or pin tucks was a way to make the little outfits more pretty.

This dress I did pin tucks across the top yoke and along the bottom of the dress. I added ribbon to the ruffled capped sleeves and a bow on the front. The ribbon in the pic below looks black but it is red and the bow has long gone.

There is little apple buttons on the back….

She had pretty red ribbons in her hair and red sandals to match. She won the best dressed competition that was running at an event in the town we lived in way back then. Plus she won the competition of the Beautiful 2 year olds. I was so proud of my little girl *big grin* I am still proud of her today *more grins*

Another dress with smocking was made by my auntie and she is also my Godmother. She used to sew professionally many years ago and didn't need a pattern….just cut the fabric out and away she went…so clever!! She does that with knitting too.

Zoei was about 2 1/2 years old there

Close up of the dress…..

Zoei doesn't wear many dresses today…..I wonder if she is like her Mum and loves wearing jeans, pants, track pants or shorts the most. Now and again I will wear a dress or skirt….but only on very special occasions.

What’s your favourite thing you like to wear?

Have a great weekend and

Hugs to all…….

Some almost vintage teddy's.

Remember how I said I would take some pictures of the things I got out of the storage box in this post? Well I have finally taken them.

My son’s wife is due to have their first baby next month and Nick (my son) knew I had his teddy from when he was a baby packed away and asked if I could send it to him as he wanted to show his wife (Tara).

So that prompted me to dig around and find it amongst all the other baby things I had packed away. Nick is 37 and so this teddy isn't young and almost a vintage one….I think something has to be 40 years old to be classed as vintage. Anyway along with this darling teddy was this very much played with teddy.

 

He is missing his eyes and was rather shabby and I wasn't game enough to wash him like I did the blue one, so will leave him ‘as is’. Although I think he should have new eyes tho.

I washed the little dresses I sewed for my daughter Zoei,  that I had packed away too. I kept a few of the clothes my baby's wore as mementos.

These ones I sewed ‘smocking’ on them and I taught myself how to sew clothes and smocking from books, so I was pretty proud to have done these for my baby girl. Zoei is now 30 so these little dresses are not new either.

So that is a couple of the dresses I did and will show you more another time.

I sewed quite a lot back then and even sewed some clothes for a friend who had a daughter two weeks after I had Zoei.

Loved it then and love it now …..nothing much has changed hehehe.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and it’s Father’s Day here in Australia on Sunday. So hugs to all the Dads!

Hugs to all……