 It's our Best Holiday Issue Ever! (What do you mean it's the first holiday season for the show? What could that possibly have to do with anything? :-) Sewing Nightgowns, Robes, Men’s Nightshirts, and Ideas for Pajamas too. Laurel is a classic romantic when it comes to nightwear sewing. This month she shares some of her favorite night garment sewing patterns, thoughts on winter gown and robe fabrics, and an audio tutorial on sewing tucks. The show also includes an informative interview with Anthony G., another student in the Cañada Fashion Sewing Program, some of which was surprising to Laurel when it came to what Anthony shared about natural fibers and Harry Truman! Looking for the poll? Scroll down the right hand side of this blog and cast your vote for your favorite garment to sew. Listen to the podcast online by clicking here, or.... do what the Cool Cats do and Drop By the iTunes store to Download  |
| Simplicity 9898 is the Nightshirt pattern I use for my husband Unfortunately it's now out of print Though I saw some for sale on the web |
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| MccCalls's 6231 is a newer pattern that's very similar It doesn't have a collar however |
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| My favorite deep-yoke nightgown Touches of machine embroidery |
* Sewing Sample Tucks on paper first
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| Kaity Rose obviously likes her new tucked nightgown |
* Tuck Sewing on Wikipedia. I'd forgotten about the reference to sewing tucks in Little Women!
* The Folkwear Gibson Girl Blouse is the perfect medium for making tucks, once I get some more practice. For the time being, a doll's nightgown is the perfect project to work on improving my tucks-making skills.
I blogged about my in-progress doll's tucked bodice nightgown recently in my posting Imperfect Tucks are Not the End of the World as We Know It
Download classic retired American Girl Doll Patterns for free! They're big files and I highly recommend that you avoid doing more than one at a time, just wait until one finishes, then click on the download link for the next one. Thanks to Pleasant Rowland and the rest of the American Girl team for sharing these free patterns.
* Here are the lyrics to Good Night My Someone from the musical The Music Man, a wonderfully classic romantic and humorous turn of the 20'th century movie
* Patterns for Future Warmer Weather Nightgown Sewing
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| Stephanies pj's close up |
* Graphic Artist Stephanie, from my Sewing Class, gave me permission to post photos of these cool pajama bottoms she made using a basic elastic waist pants pattern. Love her use of the black knit for a band, and the way she sewed down the cord at the back seam (to avoid slippage), then pulled it across slightly before reinserting into casing to look like a designer label.
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| Folkwear #224 Beautiful Dreamer is the ultimate Romantic's nightgown It's out of print, but I found it for sale at Lacis. They had more recently Other vendors have it too. Don't confuse it with the child's version 225 which is still in print. |
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| McCalls 6472 |
I also like view C on McCalls's 5989. I do not like the long sleep shorts, but I am likely to try out the robe as well. I would make it in a plain, slippery, satiny fabric. But it would look nice in a brocade as well. I just already have two brocade robes!
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| McCalls 5989 |
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| Kate Blanchett as Elizabeth I of England |
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| Butterick 6837 is a classic romantic's robe pattern |
* The movie Elizabeth starring Kate Blanchett is a constant source of inspiration to sew another robe. Her red velvet robe in the movie is stunning.
* A great article on Sewing Versus Shopping by the Wearing Hitory Blog
* The SewingPatterns.Com site has good prices on a variety of patterns. The dress pattern, Vogue 8810 ,that I'm working on making into a Tried and True pattern, (printed price $25.00) is currently selling there for $11.99
And yes, he has taken two other classes this year as well as having a life!
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| Anthony completely lined this Kwik Sew hoodie in linen |
