Spring Pinks Saturday

I just love spring, warm air and sun that lifts my head to the sky.  It is so much fun for me to make dresses for little girls, imagining them twirling and skipping, picking flowers from the garden, going to tea parties or sitting in church folding their hands all lady like like their mom, for those few minutes!! 

                      The details are my favorite  part!!

  I loved making this with a recycled Laura Ashley dress, beautiful vintage hanky and Cicely Barker Flower Fairy panel.  I have another style dress coming out in this Laura Ashley fabric as well; but I only had the one cherry blossom flower fairy that goes perfectly with this pink, gray and purple in a size 3T.

Doing the artwork on this apron is something I have been wanting to do for so long...finally got up the courage to try it on a dress, and it sold out!! The apron is from a recycled linen skirt.  But I found more of the main coral pink with yellow roses fabric,  so I am making a few more after customers really wanted me to find more fabric!

Here is the full dress with the bloomers (which I adore!)...This one is available just until March 20 or it sells out again, whichever comes first! 

So I am off to sew Easter dresses!  Happy Pink Saturday!
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Autumn Pink

Here we are in autumn once again!  I saw my first fallen fig leaf yesterday....and my studio (okay, my house) is full of fabric, trims, stacks of possibly-put-together fabrics and open sketch books!  Both of our kids have moved out to college now, leaving me lots of space!!!!

     je t'aime...te amo...I love you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just love using the vintage embroideries and laces.  I "rescued" this lace from a worn out pillow case, the flower from a worn table runner, but they are still in great condition...and it makes me think about all the time and work that women put into them..the hand embroidered little flowers, french knots, one by one...there must have been so much love that went into these little treasures!  Many moms now are working and don't have time to make all these extra touches, but I love to put these old ones on my new creations and let moms today enjoy them on their little ones.  The twirly dress' rosette has my hand stamped ribbon saying "je taime" or I love you.

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY.  HERE'S THE LINK BACK TO BEVERLY!  and one more Pink picture! 
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 XOXO
Kathi

New Styles, Pretty Pinks!

The sun has been out a few times now this spring!!  A few flowers are daring to bloom, and it's fast approaching wedding season, so I decided to do something new this spring---flower girl dresses!  I have some beautiful vintage linens--actual linen--in my collection that have been waiting for me to figure out what to create with them.  I started this pattern with a a Portabella Pixie pattern and changed it until I had the it the way I pictured it.  Absolutely LOVE this neckline, though.  It is so graceful.  I pictured this in an outdoor wedding, although I think with petticoats and starch it would be great in a brownstone church too!!

There's a big bow tied in back

Sweet row of old buttons

 This is another beautiful shabby chic linen in my stash...I picture it on a really little flower girl.  It has cherubs, arches of roses and a chandelier with birds on it....need I say more?!

Actual color

 I darkened this photo so you can see better

I also have added a twirly tiered style dress to my shop.  I don't have them all made up yet, this is the first...I remember twirling outside on our hilly grassy backyard until I fell down, and then laying and watching the sky spin. :)  This would make a good party dress too, though, I think.

here's a hint of future creations!

Happy Pink Saturday!!

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Pink Saturday

It is the season for flowery flowey (is that even a word?) dresses and little girls (and boys) running outside in meadows and long grass, making daisy chains and bouquets for mom (that get squished by chubby little hands before they make it to mom, and mom is THRILLED)

I have been working on some this week from Sandy Henderson's Portabello Pixie patterns with my recycled fabrics---though I did add a few splashes of new fabrics to get the combinations of patterns and colors just how I wanted them. 

This one has an apron for mom out of the peony print of the apron on the dress:

 They look adorable together, (but I think my photos are blurry?)  Can you all tell me if they are clear on your monitor or blurry, please.  Made me wish I had a little toddler  for that dress!  

Today is my daughter's Junior Prom!  Her dress will be a bit more like this!  (Not quite, but...hopefully some photos of her will be forthcoming as well!  Today was fun seeing her new haircut and doing her nails to start getting ready!!
   

Here is Bev's Pink Saturday link so you can visit the other Pink posts!      
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Storybooks and a Storybook Dress

The Brambly Hedge china cup my mom brought Chloe from England.  She also started us out on Jill Barklem's  Brambly Hedge stories of wee mice's wonderful lives amongst the herbs and wild flowers on the edge of a river.  There is one for each season, and more. The Summer Story is all about the community getting ready for Poppy and Dusty's Wedding....This teacup is showing that and here are a couple of beautiful illustrations from that book:

I have always LOVED the sweet clothes and illustrations.  Strongly recommend the books if you haven't found them yet!  (and, no, I don't get anything out of recommending them!)  Here's the link to the official website in the U.K.:
http://www.bramblyhedge.co.uk/frame.htm

At their website you can go into Wilfrid's Playroom to print out pictures for your child to color!  and other fun things.

...And here is the dress I just finished with some rare, Rose and Hubble Brambly Hedge fabric and a few other vintage goodies!!  I think its fun because it could also feel like an Alice in Wonderland dress to a 4 year old, like Alice at the tea party  with all the little creatures!

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I hope your day is full of the beauty and wonder of a young child!......Kathi