My Fantasy Life: Sewing
The “My Fantasy Life” series also includes homeschooling.
I just saw what may be the cutest thing ever on Etsy. I found the link through Adventures in Babywearing. Pillowcase dresses made out of old t-shirts. You really just cannot get any cuter than your little one running around with your old Lollapalooza shirt from back in the day in dress form, right? If you don’t have any cool, old t-shirts for five bucks more she will provide the t-shirt. What an easy way to give your kids cute, cotton dresses that look all retro.
When I see listings like that I start to think things like, “I could make that!” and “I need to get the sewing machine out of the attic!”
Because I could make something like that. It wouldn’t be as cute, and it wouldn’t have awesome edging around the arms or the bottom, but yeah, I think I could make something serviceable until I made a few and got better at it.
But then I think of how much time it’s going to take to even begin making something like that. A trip to the fabric store for ribbon or fabric to make the ties with, getting the sewing machine out of the attic, figuring out how the hell to make a dress from a t-shirt…you know, the stuff you need to know to make the dress.
My friend D makes beautiful baby blankets. They are perfect in every way and the last one I got even had this funky-awesome threaded ribbon through it. They are amazing. She should be selling them on Etsy…but they take hours and hours to make. If she were to make a profit based on how long a blanket takes it would cost at least $100 (that’s a guess on my part) – I mean you’d have to have super-human crochet skills to be able to make a blanket fast enough to make it cheap enough to make it enough of a value to make it worth doing.
So, instead of making my kids beautiful sundresses I go to the consignment shop and buy someone else’s dress and tell myself I’m being green by not buying new all the time.
But, sometimes, I really wish I’d just throw everything else aside so I could spend some time really learning how to make my daughters some beautiful outfits. You know, before they’re in school and just have to have the latest piece of crap all the other girls are wearing. The age where she’d rather drop dead in the middle of the street than wear something her mother made.
You know, unless I was so good I could make shirts so cute her friends were all jealous.
It’s my fantasy life, I can make shirts that cute if I want to….in my head.
I’m thinking the “My Fantasy Life” theme has a lot to do with priorities, time vs. money, and other kind of deep things that I usually avoid thinking about. Or maybe the part of my soul that wants to be a hardcore crunchy homeschooling, sewing, organic mama is just trying to have her day in the sun.
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Hey Jen, I do sew and would be interested in the URL for the t-shirt dresses. How cute. Care to share your find? Thanks!
No problem! http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5167813