Pillow case dress and other things

Hey there!

Sitting here missing my husband so much. While he is off building houses in Guatamala. So I am trying to make sure that I fill up all my time so that I will not have time to think about how much I am missing him or how much I wish that I was there. Yesterday I filled my time by going to the post office and getting my tires changed and now I will share this project with you...

This is a pillow case dress. I literally took a pillowcase and cut off the closed end. Once the end was cut off I cut up the sides to make it less boxy looking and a little more A lined and re-sewed the sides. I used a tank top of my daughters to get the arm holes right and just trimmed them up to match. Then I folded all the raw edges over and hemmed them. I took the top front and top back and made a half inch casing so that I could put a tie through it. I also took a strip of t-shirt material and made a long stitch through it and gathered it up to make a ruffle and sewed it to the front of the dress.

I just love this idea. It is such a beautiful pillow case with such beautiful embroidery on the front. There are so many beautiful vintage pillow cases that could be made into something great like little girls dresses.

Old projects

Here are just a couple of old projects that deserve to be shown.




This is a pair of flip flops I made for my daughter. I used placemats for the base, which are glued together, and some fancy rick rack for the strap with some shoe lace for inbetween her toes. I also used some padded fabric for the top of the soles and ironed on a image of Strawberry Shortcake for her. I had so much fun creating these for her and can't wait to make some for myself. I think that I will need a lot of placemats for mine though.











This is a project I tried from Martha Stewart. It is a bag made from a pillowcase. It took way longer than I thought it would and it included ironing, which I hate. It looks great though. :)