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.

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I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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