My middle daughter ha been pestering me to make new pj's for her. She hates nightgowns and flannel pj bottoms end up too hot. so we came up with this. This is made from a vintage simplicity pattern 7841 from 1968. I found the pattern thrift shopping for $ 0.50. You can find it on line at etsy. We did not like the hat look eeeww so we did not make that but the rest was fine.
Because she decided I was starting this in the middle of the night we used a white flannel sheet, and cotton left over sheet from an apron for the play. The flowers came off a dress she use to wear as a little girl but they use to go all the way around the her waist now just across the yoke of her bodice. Lots of lace to make it look cute and three pink buttons on the back and a little piece of white scrap double sided satin ribbon and voilà you have new pj's. She likes them a lot. Which is good because she had me make two sets which took three days out of my sewing time for the play.
The other lavender set I will post another day when she is wearing them. This pink set is the cuter of the two sets and the one I made second the one I have yet to show was the first one I made and not as cute.
That is just darling! I don't like nightgowns much, either. I find they just get twisted up around you. And I don't like that cap, although I guess it might have been the style when the pattern was made. Probably influenced by "Little House on the Prairie"!
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