Vintage Baby

I was going through my pattern collection looking for baby stuff and I came across this little gem.   

Methinks this was my Gramma’s, it’s got a copyright of 1970 and most of the pieces were cut out,  indicating they’ve been used before.  I love the thought of my Gramma lovingly making her babies clothes.  And the fact that I get to use the very same pattern to make my baby something is just heartwarming to me.

I have found that little baby dressed require such a small amount of fabric!  I went through all my scraps from over the years and,  much to my excitement, found a whole bunch of possibilities.  So many, in fact, that I ran out of patterns.

So I made two of the same dress out of different fabrics.  

And I’m so so glad I did because the look completely different!

The first one was made with scraps from a maternity dress I made with my first baby.

Please disregard the large amounts of baby going on here.  I was 8 months pregnant.

Also please disregard the large amounts of weird faces I’m making. 

**Note to self:  Start looking normal for pictures.

 

So the moral of the story here is the dress is made out of a beautiful linen.  And I had JUST enough to make this: 

  

The pictures don’t do it justice in my opinion.  You should see it in real life.

And know what else?  I think I see a pair of ruffle butt panties in it’s future…

The other one was made from the scraps of another dress I made myself back in 2007 for a friend’s wedding.  I don’t have any pictures of me in said dress, which is a shame because I think it’s darling.  But here’s the fabric 

And,  again,  I had barely enough to make Baby Girl this: 

It’s probably my favorite.  It’s just so yummy!  I can’t even handle it! 

And so the moral of the story here is always save your scraps because look how much cuteness can come out of it!!