fun, silly sewing

For the past couple weeks my daughter's kindergarten class has been learning about "old timey" things.  We got a note earlier this week saying that Friday would be Old Fashioned Day and the kids could dress in old fashioned clothing.

Of course Harper's closet is full of skinny jeans and glitter and nothing she owns even relatively resembles something old fashioned.  Even though this was an optional activity, I thought it would be fun if we picked out some fabrics and made her something to wear.  Good thing that old fashioned clothes are pretty simple to make because I was totally winging it.  The entire project took about 90 minutes and I am not a quick sewer, especially when it comes to clothes, so this was really easy (I did not make the shirt).

Can you tell she was super excited to have her picture taken?

But she was excited to wear her clothes.  She chose this Alexander Henry cherry blossom print for the skirt.  We didn't quite have enough so we added a hot pink strip to the bottom to make it extra old fashioned looking (ha ha).  So we didn't keep with a historically accurate color scheme but I wanted to make her something she would actually want to wear.

We made her apron out of Kona bone and her bonnet is an older print from a line called Hunky Dory that is actually leftover from the very first quilt I ever made.

I got to stay and volunteer in Harper's class this morning and we got to do some weaving, we made some butter, and got to play some old fashioned games.  Her teacher even gave each kid an old fashioned name (Harper's was "Constance").

This ended up being a great quick project because I sliced my thumb open pretty severely earlier this week and it turns out that I need 2 opposable thumbs to work on anything more complicated.  That's what I get for trying to cook!