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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Christmas is one of those holidays that you just can decorate too much for. There’s no limit to the amount of holiday cheer you can bring into you home! There’s no such thing as too many Christmas decorations. You can bring Christmas décor into any room of the house – including the kitchen! Which is kind of fitting given how many Christmas activities and gifts are made in the kitchen. We’ve rounded up 13 Christmas kitchen accessories you can sew for your home or to give as gifts.

The list includes holiday themed hot pads, potholders ,aprons, and more that you can sew and decorate your kitchen all season long. Most are things you can make in an evening or less. These would also make wonderful hostess gifts for any holiday parties or gatherings you’re attending. Read on for the kitchen sewing ideas!