1960's Vogue Dress

I absolutely love finding vintage patterns. This one was a great find that I discovered at a thrift shop back in my hometown in eastern Washington. It's been sitting in my to-do pile for a while now, because vintage patterns have a smaller range of sizes and this one is at least two sizes down from me, so I have had to alter the pattern to fit. My first cut was too big, so now I have to resize down without cutting it too small. Also, vintage pattern instructions are structured differently than modern patterns, so it's been a bit of an adjustment trying to navigate the pattern. Below is the pattern and my cut fabric. I'll update more as I make my way through this tricky project.

Rapunzel dress promoting Champion Family Parties

My Rapunzel dress was commissioned by my friend and used to promote her party business! So happy to see how excited the kids were to meet Rapunzel and how great the dress looked in action.

1950's Minnie Dress

Having been busy with work and starting a family, it wasn't until I dusted off my sewing machine to help a friend with a project that I decided to pick up some of my sewing projects.

As an avid Disneyphile who's lived within a hour's drive of a Disney park for the past decade it was about time that I made myself a Minnie Mouse dress. Since Disneyland was built in the 1950's it was only appropriate that my dress should reflect the iconic style of the time. I got this great retro pattern, some fun Minnie and Mickey buttons, and a pair of mouse ears from a party store that I could add a custom bow to. It was a pretty easy, straightforward pattern and I'm excited to wear it when we go back down to the parks in October.

Here's the retro dress pattern. Unfortunately my dogs got to the pattern. Luckily they missed most of the instructions and only got some of the cover.

Sewing the pleats took a few tries since I hadn't sewn anything in a while.

The fun Minnie and Mickey buttons to attach the front of the dress.

Here's the dress folded with the custom bow attached to the Minnie Mouse ears.

The resulting 1950's Minnie dress!