My husband and I had a stay-cation weekend to celebrate our 8th anniversary while the kids stayed with their grandparents! I did some sewing over the weekend, but I didn’t blog, so this post is an update on the nightgown project progress I’ve made so far!
While we were at a second hand store on Friday I found a nightgown pattern in girls sizes. It is for a winter nightgown, but it is easy enough to leave the sleeves off and shorten the skirt to make it work for summer. I had already started modifying the misses size pattern I have last week, but I decided to use the new pattern I found since I could jump right to cutting out the fabric and sewing the nightgown. Maybe I will use the modified pattern pieces at some point in the future. Who knows!
On Saturday and Sunday I spent some time pinning the pattern and cutting out the fabric. It is a basic design with one piece for the front and two pieces for the back. I am adding ruffled eyelet trim around the arm openings and bias tape around the neck opening.
After dinner on Sunday when the kids were back home, my daughter tried on the partially finished nightgown so I could make sure it fit and make any needed adjustments. It fit well and I just had to adjust the neckline a little bit and shorten it.
The final steps left to complete this project are:
- Sewing the ruffled eyelet trim on the second arm opening
- Sewing a button to one side of the opening in the back on the neck
- Adding a thread button loop on the other side on the opening in the neckline
I am getting so close to finishing this nightgown and I am really excited about that! The weather is going to be in the 80s here for a few days so my daughter will be able to use this right away when it is done. It is really gratifying to finish a project and see it be used, and not just half-finished, taking up space in my sewing closet.
Quilt for Joy by Kathryn 