Shabby Chic Pinks and Roses

My customers have requested and I have been sewing more shabby chic rosy dresses this week.  This one is a mix of new fabrics from a UK designer and some recycled vintage linens and trims in my stash.  I just loved the stripes of cupcakes, cherries, and roses in the bodice, but it is discontinued and I only could find enough for 3 dress bodices!! 

My first "Reverse Knot Dress"  with the ties in back.  I am liking the long bow hanging down in back

 

One of a kind---this is to fit 12-18 Months  It is the last Ava Rose fabric I can find anywhere!!  The bottom border is an awesome vintage rose ticking fabric.  I have quite a bit of this one, so ruffle pants can be requested with this dress.  I'm thinking about what to make with the rest of the piece I found???  

Isn't this sweet?!

I have one or two more summery rose dresses to make up and then will be working madly on my fall and holiday line up!  I am very excited about the fabrics I have found, and will share more later.

Lily--THE Queen of Everything!--and I bid you

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!!!  

Here's Beverly's link, too:

http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

XOXO

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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A GIVEAWAY Before Easter!!

Welcome to reimaginedremnantsandtreasures blog!!!
Today reimaginedtreasures is being reviewed by blogger Lindsay Lee on http://www.Lindsay-thelees.blogspot.com  AND if you follow me on my blog and follow this link to hers you will find out about a special discount code offered Monday and Tuesday, PLUS be able to enter a GIVEAWAY from my shop!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/reimaginedtreasures   This is a first for me, so I am really excited to see what it's like! 

Isn't she adorable!!?  A customer/photographer took photos of her little sweetie wearing one of my flower fairy dresses.  I am finishing version 3 of it and listing the very last one today.  There is also a lavender version, with one left

I really love creating whimsical, sweet clothes for tiny girls to dance and imagine and have tea parties in....and for their mommys to take pictures that will be forever beautiful...I use almost all vintage and upcycled (saved from being thrown into landfills) fabrics and trims...I think recycling and reusing can be truly beautiful....What do you think?  I would LOVE to hear from you about what sizes you are looking for,
because in 2010 I sold most in size 12M, but this Spring, seem to be getting many for sizes 2T-5T  so it would help me to hear from you what size your little one is is you would be interested in my baby and toddler clothing.

 I admit that I used new fabrics in this dress...the trims and some of them are upcycled.

 
go to my store to see the other side of this pinafore dress!  And don't forget to enter the giveaway!!  Plus, follow my blog and leave me a comment, Please!! 
http://www.Lindsay-thelees.blogspot.com
GOOD LUCK!!

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!

I'd love to have you come to my etsy store!   www.reimaginedtreasures.etsy.com

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

Pink Saturday

Well, this is my first time to get my Pink Saturday post actually coordinated and up, except not everything I planned to post was photographed before the sun went down!!  So my honey figured out how to scan in on his computer and email me my painting pictures, which I am sharing with you today...only the pink ones, of course!!  Late morning, I will add in the new little toddler apron I made yesterday, with bunnies and carrots and daisies!!

 My girl had to have tea parties DAILY!  And would pour the cream until it the cup overflowed, then stirred it until most of it was on the tablecloth, and THEN drank a sip, and started over!!!  I loved that!

I won 2nd Place with this one at an Art Show in 2000.  Chloe, a that time had to wear pink every day!!! I sewed a LOT of pink then, and I still like to!

This was just too precious!  She was helping make her birthday frosting for #2!!!   (Notice the apron!)...and feeding the beater to the cat in  between her own licks!!  Stay tuned for the little pink apron (coming later today)that is for toddlers sizes 2 - 4!  O.K.  AFTER EDITING AND ACCIDENTALLY DELETING THEM TWICE!!!!  HERE ARE THE APRON PICS!  Did I mention that this fabric is a remnant from a dress I had made for Chloe about 15 years ago?  The fabric is a cotton woven, so the bunnies and carrots are subtly woven into the  fabric, not stamped on.  I love ball fringe, but still wanted the feminine little daisy "necklace"!

 I love how the back looks!  The apron pinafore is one I adapted from a 1970's Simplicity pattern by enlarging the armholes so that it could be a comfortable apron for any 2 - 4 year old.  Now on to list it on my etsy store!