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Showing posts with label vintage clothes. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2015

Old photos, old dresses...

Or should that be 'vintage dresses'?
During December I post a photo each day on Facebook; these photos are Christmas themed. The other day, after a bit of hesitation, I posted a photo collage...2 photos taken 23 years apart. 
Photo 1, taken December 1992...
DD1 dressed in our Christmas dresses ready to go out to a Christmas function...I had been able to make a dress for DD1 out of the leftover fabric from my dress.
So last week when I was organising photos for my Facebook posts, I remembered that my old dress was still hanging in a wardrobe having survived many wardrobe purges...somehow??? Lol. I thought I would take a photo of the dress on its hanger...but then I threw caution to the wind and I tried the dress on...
It doesn't really fit...but it was fun to try it on...
Well a collage of these 2 photos brought quite a lot of feedback from the FB post, and also via FB comments, my dress is going to a new home...

My niece who loves all things 'retro/vintage' offered to give my old dress a new home and lots of wearings/outings too I suspect. 
And in my Christmas fabrics stash, I still have scraps of that fabric...lots of squares, hexagons and circles (for yoyos) have been cut out of that fabric over the years


Great little motifs for fussy cutting...

And while I was looking through my Xmas fabric stash, I found a ziplock bag filled with long hexies, all cut out and some were even stitched over the papers. I had just been thinking a while back, that I'd like to make one of my long hexie table runners...for me...not to give away like I normally do! And now the first few steps in making a runner are already done!!