Heirloom Tatting to Create a Daygown and Baby Dress

My favorite things to create are items using materials that have been in a family or have been created by a beloved family member. The beautiful ecru tatting, the pink tatted insertion, and the pink and teal crocheted edging were made by a precious family member and I was asked to create two baby items out of them.

The first item consisted of about 3 yards of ecru tatting. The tatted edges were in several length with one tatting larger than the others. I created a ragland sleeve daygown using the smaller edging on the placket and neck of the gown and the larger edging on the sleeve ruffle.

I added embroidery to the placket between the top four buttons and add additional embroidery on the bottom of the skirt. The embroidery consists of satin stitched leaves and bullion daisies in ecru thread.

 

The second item I created was a baby dress using the pink insertion and edging. The front and back yokes feature embroidery using bullion leaves and bullion roses. The bottom of the yokes are finished with the pink insertion applied horizontally. The skirt also has embroidery on the center bottom. The dress is finished to a length of twenty-two inches and it has a built-in hemmed liner. I tatted a small edging for the neck edge in the same color as the other tatting. This sweet dress has long sleeves which are finished with a fabric ruffle edged in the multi-colored crocheted edging.

 

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Ragland Sleeve Daygown with Pink Tatted Edge and Pink Tatted Bonnet and Booties

 

This precious Ragland sleeve daygown is created using white Swiss Bearissima II batiste. I personally hand tatted the pink edging (DMC #776, weight 80) which is applied flat to both sides of the placket and neck edge. The same edging is applied to the fabric ruffle at the sleeves. The sleeve ruffle was hand rolled and whipped as well as the neck and sleeve edges. The hem is blind hemmed by hand.

The lower front of the skirt on either side of the placket is embellished with a beautiful hand embroidered design using shadow stitched bows and bullion roses and leaves.

The gown features single rosebuds hand embroidered along the placket.

The pink tatted bonnet and booties feature blue medallions. Both items are VINTAGE and have been cleaned and laundered. Fresh ivory ribbon has been used to complete these items. These items are the first I have seen tatted in the pink and blue. I absolutely fell in love with them when I came across them and envisioned the day gown to match. Please note there is a very subtle color difference between the vintage bonnet/booties and the new edging.

These beautiful items are available for sale at my Etsy store:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/128319482/white-ragland-sleeve-daygown-with-tatted?ref=shop_home_active

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Pink Batiste Dress with Tear Drop Shaped Skirt and Fancy Collar

Such a sweet dress! This beautiful dress was a custom-ordered dress for Easter. The dress was made following Sarah Howard Stone's Basic Yoke Dress pattern. Pink Swiss batiste was used to create both the dress and the collar. A combination of French Maline ecru laces were used throughout from the lace ruffles to the shaped lace insertion.

 

Embroidery design used:

 

The shaped lace loops and embroidery on the skirt:

 

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Tear Drop Shaped Lace Dress

This beautiful dress was created using Sarah Howard Stone's Tyler pattern in a size 5. The yoke is structured using a variety of French Maline laces and further enhanced with a gathered lace ruffle. The skirt consists of shaped lace in a loop-de-loop pattern or tear drop design. The shaped lace is complimented with pastel embroidery. A gathered lace ruffle finishes the dress's design. This dress also has a built in liner finished with a lace edging applied flat to the fabric.

View of the front yoke:

 

View of the back yoke:

 

View of the skirt and embroidery:

 

View of the embroidery:

 

 

 

 

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Pink Babette with Ecru Lace and Pastel Embroidery

This precious daygown is created using pale pink Swiss batiste and fine French Maline lace. Gathered lace and pastel embroidery embellish the placket. Pastel embroidery has been added to either side of placket on the lower front of the gown.

This daygown is available for sale. Please contact me for information.

 

 

 

 

 

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White Daygown with Pink Ruffle

This precious girl daygown features a pink Swiss batiste ruffle gathered along the outside placket edge. Vintage edge is gathered slightly around the neck and continues along the ruffle's edge.

The placket has three sprays of bullion roses.

The sleeves are finished with vintage lace and pink ribbon.

This daygown is available for sale.

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White Daygown with a Blue Placket

This sweet gown is a Ragland sleeve daygown with a blue placket. The daygown is created using Sarah Howard Stone's Babette pattern.

Tiny ivory edging is applied flat to the placket. The embroidery includes bullion daisies and satin stitched leaves and stems.

Vintage lace insertion is sewn with the same edging used on the placket and gathered onto entredeux beading. Blue double-faced satin ribbon completes the gown.

This daygown is available for sale.

 

 

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Embroidery on a T-yoke Dress

This T-yoke dress is being made by a client for her daughter. She asked me to embroidery the T-section of the dress using a photograph of a design she liked.

The feather stitching and shadow stitched bow were created using yellow DMC# 745. The roses were embroidered in DMC #761 and DMC #818. The center petals consist of two bullion knots with 7-8 wraps made with the darker pink. The outer petals have five bullion knots with 12-13 wraps which radiate around the center knots.

The daisies have five petals made up of two bullion knots with 4-5 wraps each in the light blue DMC #776 and the center is a French knot using yellow thread. The leaves were created using a satin stitch in DMC #504.

 

 

 

 

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