Pillow Case Dress Bandwagon

Usually on Fridays of long weekends, I try to have some time for myself.  I get work done, print off next week's schedule, tidy my desk.  Then, I meet Ian for lunch as has been our practise for at least ten years and after that, an hour or two all to myself for some thrift shopping or time unsupervised in a fabric shop.

Here is what I found:

Some new, some from the scrape pile, I am partial to the blue pattern one

I am addicted to any sort of pattern.  The louder the better.

I have a friend who needs some easy access dresses for her daughter.  She thought the pillow case dress all over blog land would be perfect.  Have you seen them?

I found two red gingham pillow cases that I had to have, one for Bronwyn and one for my friends daughter.


Here they are cut up and ready to be made into dresses and ruffles.

I could not find other vintage pillow cases, I was lucky to locate two vintage sheets that will make a few dresses.  AND Ruffles.  LOTS of Ruffles.

I went home and washed the dust out the fabric, sifted through my fabric supplies and found coordinating fabrics for ruffles and bias tape for the arm holes.  Mine pillow case dresses were made with out the elastic in the front, that way they will not be tight to the chest.

I hit the fabric store for some ribbon ties.

Here they are done!