Posts Tagged ‘nightie’
The Finish of Project Victorian Nightie
The Victorian Nightie project has finished on a high. Teen declares it the best nightie yet! Teen requested a Victorian nightie with all the trimmings. Read about early thoughts here. I did a first sample which had issues, then the issues got resolved last week with a finished nightie sewn from stash fabric. During the…
Read MoreVictorian Nightie Victorious!
The Victorian nightie project has had a big win. (See the first post on this odyssey here and then last week’s here.) The pink floral wearable toile got trimmed up and finished off, and Teen wore it last night and gave it the big thumbs up! She’s still wearing it now, and says she likes…
Read MoreThe Victorian Nightie with Issues
Last week’s Victorian Nightie project started strong: we found a pattern in a book, ordered some cotton lawn, and I enlarged the pattern from the grid in the book. The cotton lawn still hasn’t arrived yet, as it didn’t get dispatched until the end of the week, blowing away plans for weekend sewing. So instead…
Read MoreA Dose of Gingham Goodness
I’m making a nightie for my teen using a Jane Austen-era pattern for a shift, following on from last week’s post on using an historical sewing pattern. The pattern is in Costume Close-Up – a book of patterns from garments in the collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in the USA. Beyond the patterns, the…
Read MoreMaking Birgitta Helmersson’s Slip Dress (again)
I’m back on the quest for the perfect nightie pattern for my teen, and I think I’ve found it with Birgitta Helmersson’s slip dress from her book Zero Waste Patterns. My teen has long covid but worse than me, and spends a lot of time resting in bed. Previously I tried making a nightie using…
Read MoreMaking a Pink Nightie
Believe it or not, it’s very rare that I sew something with no considerations other than personal choice. Usually my sewing consists of fit and photography samples, where things like colour, print, proportion etc all have to be deliberated. As well, I have plenty of clothes and no need to make more, as I hardly…
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