What We Wore Sunday: Pentecost

Spraznikom!  Happy feast of Pentecost!!  I'm really on the ball today: I got photos of my own outfit and my kids'!  (Mostly because I wanted to show my penance handiwork)  Although I must confess that my own outfit photos were taken in a rush while I was waiting for a certain toddler to finish her unending potty sit this morning.  So apologies in advance for poor quality and lack of detail.  (But then, I'm pretty sure if you are still coming here after all this time, you aren't here for the photo quality)

Confession: I'm a selfish sewer.  I love sewing for myself, but not so much for other people.  I'll do it, but it's not my favorite thing.  That said, here is a tale of two dresses and two shirts.  I bought some Joel Dewberry fabric from an etsy seller's clearance rack, intending to make a skirt for myself out of it.  When it arrived, the shade was much yellower than looks good on me, and I decided it wouldn't work for my skin.  I don't like things to sit in my fabric bin that I can't use, so I decided to make Pentecost dresses for the girls out of the yardage.  I used the Hide and Seek dress pattern from Oliver + S that was super easy, but didn't really enjoy it that much.  While I was making the dresses, Piglet noticed, and then, when I said they were for Pentecost, looked at me with big puppy dog eyes and with a sweet voice asked, "Can you make me and Boo matching shirts for Pentecost too??"  Well, when you put it that way.  Putty.  

So I found myself back at the clearance rack, ordering two more yards, and trolling patterns online to find a boys' shirt pattern.  Lauren at Wearing History had a 1940s one on a Facebook auction for a song that was the right size, so I snapped it up quick.  And then procrastinated terribly on the make.  Finally on Wednesday, with the clock ticking, I made myself knock them out before I went on to anything else. They ended up a little on the short side, so I don't think they will wear them much past this summer, but they did have Hawaiian day at school on Friday and wore them as their "Hawaiian" shirts for the day.  Works for me!

  

My outfit is another Portrait blouse + six gore skirt.  No major details to report except I chain stitched in burgundy tread around the neckline again; there is a subtle burgundy accent in the feathers on the pattern, which I think means this blouse will work well with another skirt I made for summer (that I will blog soon!)  I went for a faux-dress effect with two piece skirt and blouse and I really like it!  I added pockets from a vintage Hollywood pattern.  I hand sewed almost the whole skirt, and the waist is an inch too big again, but I might insert a bit of elastic in the back to tighten it up.  It fits okay with a belt.  I did get a little lazy with the waistband and just used black quilt bias binding to finish the edge.  

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