Sewing a dress by upcycling vintage linens inspired by fast fashion | Vintage sewing project

This is a very exciting collaboration with @WithLoveKristina where we were inspired by a dress we liked on Shein to make it ourselves. Today I am sewing a 1940s day dress and that features a gored skirt, square neckline, ruffle sleeve all using upcycled vintage linenes. The dress was sewn using vintage pattern Simplicity 2119.

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00:00 Intro
04:16 Cutting the linens
06:31 Sewing the Bodice
09:41 Sewing the Skirt
10:24 Adding the doily
12:03 Sewing the Ruffle
15:27 Reveal
17:15 Cost Breakdown
24:37 Wrap up

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[StephanieCanada]

I know I say this a bunch, but I think this may be my favorite make from you recently! I LOVE how creative you are with reusing linens. ❤❤❤

[connie]

This is a beautiful homage to the women who spent hours of time to create those items! My mother had a beautiful "hand" when it came to embroidery and crocheting. And, you're right! Most of us who have items of that handwork usually keep them in a drawer. JUST love it!!

[secretfox]

That dress looks amazing. I love how well you used the embroidery on the linen pieces.

[marleneburdett]

I didn't think all those different flowers would look good, but it looks beautiful. You did an awesome job

[jennydame]

Came out sew beautiful!! Personally I love seeing your price breakdown. As a small biz owner I still have “guilt” pricing things that are equal to my worth. Seeing you break it down really helps! 💗

[thekateofaffairs]

This is stunning, Haley! It's great to see you repurpose these linens to create a new piece of art.

[joycleckley]

This is lovely and the placement of the flowers are spot in. Such a brilliant idea and collaboration. The grandma would be so happy to see her creations used to make this gorgeous dress. Those shoulder ruffles are so 80'sand feminine. I fell in love with linens as a child, and collecting even since. I have on occasion paid more than I wanted too because the piece would be calling my name so hard., 😂😂😂💚 I have sets of pillowcases have been happy to share with you. Certainly enjoyed this video!!!❤

[cherylbarrel]

The dailies my great-grandmother used were placed on upholstered chairs and sofas where they were likely to come into contact with people's skin or hair, such as over the fabric on the arm rests and across the upholstered backs.

[nancyworsley]

Hello, With Love, Kristina, sent me.

[Gosewsomething]

Doilles were mainly used to protect wood furniture from objects that scratched. They were both decorative and functional

[Elysia]

Cool, i would have never thought to do that with embroidered pillowcases.

[vernieplummer]

In Victorian times, the doilies were used to make something called an antimacassar. This was laid over the top of chairs to keep the oils from peoples hair from staining the furniture . They were also laid over the arms of chairs for the same reason occasionally. When I was young my grandmother would crochet doilies, and she would just use them to cover the top of every surface in her house. No cabinet or TV or shelf was complete if it didn’t have a few doilies on it. I’m not sure when this was actually stylish, but I’ve just always looked at it as kind of an old lady thing because I’ve seen lots of old ladies do it. In the 80s, it was actually fashionable to make your area kind of cutesy. You are way too young to remember that every woman had to own a white goose with a blue apron that was about 2 feet tall and stood in a corner of the living room, and the doilies kind of had a little comeback at that point. it was rather cottage core, and we would make the doilies so that they would stick up and have waves in them and all kinds of stuff. I have made about a million doilies in my life. They are useful nowadays as the center of dreamcatchers. I have also crocheted a lot of snowflakes for Christmas trees. Currently, I’m undergoing some stress in my life, and I find that crocheting little small doilies helps calm my nerves. My Neurodivergence is that I have some OCD. Attention to tiny detail makes me calm and happy. I will probably turn some of these into Dreamcatchers, and people have been suggesting other interesting ways to use them. They look pretty sewn together as a tablecloth, or just lain across a canvas and attached as an art piece.

[CosnerCoPiloting]

Love these sleeves! It’s so cute!!! Great work as always Haley :)

[CandycaneLane]

Get yourself a spool of Tex 45 thread, I keep a bobbin full of one to pop in when I do gathering because it is stronger, it is thicker so it also makes your tension on bobbin looser for easier pulling, I leave what ever thread I’m using in needle. Just don’t use your auto thread cutter with it

[WithLoveKristina]

EEEE I love love love how it turned out! I promise my video will be up soon lol.
lol "organic" is a much nicer way to describe my absolute CHAOS when sewing I love you

[deborahc]

Yes, you should be proud of yourself! The dress is perfect, and doesn't need another thing. It is now my number one favorite dress that you've made.

[khinekhine]

When you cut and join the pillow cases's crochet trims, do you think it will ravel?how do you prevent ravelling

[MichaelaDrechselova]

My guess is that the "doily" is actually one side of a hand bag! If they crochet another one just like that, connect them on the sides (the red-pink part in halfcircle shape) and then sew a lining, it makes a bag that wasn't uncommon in old crochet patterns. 😊

[JanealJohnson]

I love how you used those, its beautiful!

[BookCat]

❤ such a beautiful dress and I admire the skill it takes to put together the vision and the finished garment