Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Vintage Pillowcase Dresses



Here are a couple of vintage pillowcase dresses I made. They are going to Olivia.
I'm sorry, but I don't think I have time to write up my method for sewing these dresses, but these links will lead you to some great tutorials. For the second dress I made it kind of a bubble style by creating a hem and then inserting elastic. I sewed the elastic together and stitched up the opening.

http://www.everythingsewing.net/pillowcase_dress_how_to.htm
https://www.fabshophop.com/downloads/pillowcaseDress_chop1.pdf
http://www.graceviolet.com/2008/05/how-to-make-pillowcase-dress.html
http://www.rostitchery.com/a-safer-pillowcase-dress.html
http://www.craftleftovers.com/blog/archives/1971 Mine is similar to this one, I guess. I used bias tape I created around the arm opening and left long ends to use as the ties.

1 comment:

Imani said...

How pretty! Can you share how you made them?