It's Pink Saturday

Little girls in Pink Dresses

For Pink Saturday I am sharing some of my vintage dress patterns.  Each features a little girl's dress in pink. I love the images on these old pattern envelopes.  It's hard to resist then when I see then in the thrift stores.  I have a collection of vintage patterns that my sister and I use in our craft projects.  Our most recent project is our Family in Fabric book.  You can see one of the pages here.  I have compiled the items for three more pages and hope to work on them this weekend.

Thanks to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for organizing Pink Saturday.  Check her blog for a list of participants in this weeks Pink Saturday.

"Mammy" Family in Fabric

Now that I am home and in my studio, it is time to return to creating my Family in Fabric book.  This is a photo of my great-grandmother Ella Stearman.  I never met her but my Mother called her "Mammy".  The background fabric is a feedsack.  When you look closely at Mammy's dress you can see that it could have been made from a feed sack.  The dress is so simple.  Mammy probably didn't have a pattern.  She could have used these instructions from "Easy Ways to Pretty Frocks" by Clark's O.N.T. Threads dated 1929. 

The quilt square in the background was hand stitched by Manny in the 1930's or 40's.   

Family in Fabric Cousins

This is my third Family in Fabric page.  This is a photo of my oldest cousins, Bobby and Joyce.  The picture had the date of May 11, 1944 written on the back by my Aunt Ruby.  I just love their little outfits.  I had this vintage pattern that is very similar to their outfits.  The pattern is dated 1943.  The little applique pattern was still in the pattern envelope.  I decided to do tailor tacks through the holes (just like my Aunt Ruby would have done when making the pattern).  The old patterns had no writing on the tissue pattern pieces.  To make the patterns, the seamstress would use tailor's tacks.   The blue background fabric is from a vintage apron and I added the middy braid.

Embellishments on this page include vintage Oh Baby pearl buttons, hooks and eyes that had a price tag of 15 cents, a vintage button, safety pins, and a red felt applique bunny.  I also included a transparency of part of the instruction sheet.  These are such fun.  I will be binding the edges with seam binding when I have more pages completed.

Yard Sale Treasures

Here are photos of some of the little treasures I purchased while visiting the World's Longest Yard Sale. I love the vintage pattern. I plan to use it in a fabric book my sister and I are planning. We'll begin the book later this month. There were also three vintage women's dress patterns that I'll post later.

I found two of the crochet pieces with the lovely purple grapes (one is shown here). I love the vintage clip earrings. I was so glad to find a variety at the sale. They have become hard-to-find locally. Earrings will be upcycled into new pieces. I couldn't resist the vintage pins. I'll use them in my altered fabric art pieces. All these treasures fit easily into my luggage for the trip home.

Vintage Du Barry Patterns

Here are two vintage patterns that I purchased at the World's Longest Yard Sale. They have a copyright of 1943. My sister and I have a collection of vintage sewing patterns. We use them in our altered fabric art projects. This month we will be working on a altered fabric book with family photos, fabric, vintage notions, and vintage sewing patterns. We are collecting our ephemera and photos.