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Tutorial: Vintage sheet pajama set

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Tutorial: Vintage sheet pajama set

Tutorial: Vintage sheet pajama set

Melissa from Blank Slate Patterns and Melly Sews shares a couple of tutorials showing how you can make a simple pajama set from vintage sheets. The top is a pillowcase style top, and she shows how to make it to your measurements.  The shorts are gathered waist shorts with a cute scallop detail at the side.  She has a free pattern to make them, which fits a women’s size Small.  (You can get her pattern for free by subscribing to her email list, but you can also just purchase it from her shop.)  If you need another size, you could easily adapt a basic elastic waist shorts pattern to add the scallop detail she shows.

Click below for her tutorials:

Sew a Pillowcase Top – Vintage Sheets Pajama Top

Women’s Pajama Shorts Tutorial – With Video

[photo from Melly Sews]

Vintage sheets are very popular for re-styling or recycling of fabric and a great way to use these fun and bold prints rather than just storing grannies old bedsheets in the cupboard.  You can see more articles using vintage sheets here.   Don’t have any vintage bed sheets of your own? Check these out on Etsy. 

Have you read?

Easy Cosmetics Bag Sewing Pattern

The bag is simple, uses very little fabric (about 2/3rds of a fat quarter), has no fussy inside pockets (although you can add your own if you like), and takes me well less than 30 minutes to print the pattern, cut out and sew. But quick and simple doesn’t mean it’s not awesome!

It’s the sort of bag that is versatile enough to be used for lots of applications, not just cosmetics and toiletries. Keep all your pens and pencils in order, use it for a small first aid kit for the car, keep it in your desk at work for a few headache pills and other personal supplies.

Make some for yourself, for gifts or to sell.