Wedding Gift to a Dress

They had sat in the Linen Closet for twelve long years.  I had faithfully carted them from house to house to house to house as we moved.  White one-hundred-percent cotton wrinkle-prone sheets with pale yellow pillow cases, they were a wedding gift from Great-great-aunt Rachel S.  I knew we would never sleep on them but was reluctant to part with them (they were, after all, from her own linen collection).

Then I saw a friend's Facebook post about how she had taken her Grandmother's vintage pillowcases and transformed them into darling dresses for her girls.  My pillowcases weren't quite as beautiful as her embroidered heirlooms, but they were still vintage--about 1970s vintage.  So, with a little help from April W. in pointing me in the direction of a good blog tutorial, I got to work.

I ripped the floral trim off of the sheet and trimmed down one of the pillowcases.  Using jumpers which fit the girls well, I cut armholes and then a very large neck.  I sewed on the collars, inserted elastic into the neck casing, finished of the sleeves, and that was that!  A very easy, fun project with a memory of Aunt Rachel, too.

The girls aren't too certain about the shawl collars but they'll learn to like them (I hope).