Winter was wanting to make herself some 1940’s style overalls. I ordered this printable pattern for her. She made the first pair out of some dropcloth that I had (that painter’s cloth you buy from the hardware store to put down while painting) and made the second from some denim that my sister-in-law gave…
Last fall, my eldest and I were invited to someone’s house to check out the clothing she was giving away. Her mother said she had told her daughter to narrow down her clothing and wondered if we would like her hand-me-downs. This young woman is always impeccably dressed and we went over there a…
I love a loose-fitting cotton nightgown for summer. Winter wanted a summer nightgown, and so she set forth to make one using a pillow case we had. It was a hand-me-down from my mother (the sheets had worn out) and was rather long, being a king-sized pillow case. It wasn’t a vintage-embroidered pillowcase, but she…
Winter originally made this dress for Christmas, using some fabric that was given to me by a reader a few years ago. She was inspired by the dress Queen Elizabeth wears in “A Royal Night Out.” She used a pattern she already had, but then made lots of changes, as she was…
Last spring, when I was 8 months pregnant, I went through my closet and ruthlessly edited out clothing that I had, cough, outgrown before I became pregnant and that I figured was never going to fit me after my eighth baby was born. Before I took it all off to be donated, I offered it…
Winter just attended her first formal dance, a Winter Ball put on by the local LDS Seminary, which she attends. They have 375 students who attend a religion class early every morning an hour before school starts. Because of our dating standards, only those who are 16 and older could bring dates to the dance….
Note: This post contains affiliate links. My 14-year-old daughter, Winter, has been working on a sewing project for the last couple of months. She participated in a Pioneer handcart trek, and everyone was supposed to dress for the time period. This is a living history event where groups of people recreate a Mormon pioneer handcart…