Frock on Friday ...

The life and times of a vintage floral sheet ...

phase 1

A vintage floral bed sheet.

phase 2

A painters drop sheet.

phase 3

A fabulous frock!

A frock for all occasions?

For breakfast, lunch or dinner?

A house frock, a picnic frock, a pick up the kids frock, a make the hubby gasp frock,

a seduce a rock god frock,  who knows?

A sensible, down to earth, recycled, handmade with love frock!

(Oh and that's me in my first ever "Frock on Friday" pose -

please bear with me while I get more courageous!!!)

What do ya think?

I had so much fun creating this little number!  I bought this sheet while on our get-away to the coast a few weeks back purely for its colours.

(I love a good 70s era purple)

The sheet was in very poor condition.  It has turquoise and apricot paint splatters everywhere, wax blobs and mould stains here and there!  I had to strategically place the pattern pieces but still couldn't quite manage a "clean" pattern piece!  Well, whatever!  Thanks to the gorgeous pattern on the fabric the stains are easily disguised.

I wanted to create some groovy pockets on the side and the purple bias

was just the look I was after !

A V neckline, and the little tie was a cute after thought.  I may need to create larger cap sleeves

to hide my *ahem* bat wings though *argh* 

All in all I am pretty darn happy with the outcome! 

This one is for keeps but I will be making a few more in the not too distant future!

Stay tuned loved ones .....

Dee xox