Vintage Lives On - A Grow With Me Pillowcase Dress

The Look ~ The Design ~ It's Just Divine!

(Sounds Like Divine Design on HGTV lol!)

The beauty of vintage linens just comes alive when transformed or recycled into beautiful heirloom dresses and pantaloons for little girls. I can't think of a better way to celebrate the hand work of women years and years ago into something so sweet, to again cherish it's beauty in a new form and a promise of new life.  It simply amazes me everytime no matter how many hundrends of these I've made, just how cute and precious each one becomes. I'm just ticklely gigglely all over again. This old vintage pillowcase matched with an old vintage chenilled bedspread is now all of that and more. This darling set is on it's way to a little girl who hasn't even had her first breath of life yet, and will be her first gift from mommy and daddy to welcome her to this world. This will be an heirloom for sure with the hope of a little girl of hers also wearing it again some day! I just get goosey bumps thinking of it!

Size 6M

I so love the bluebird ones!

This embroidery is just perfect, every single stitch! It's just too Sweeeeeeet!

We're Creating Little Works of Heart with Your Little One's and Mommies in Mind, by Creating and Making Vintage Beautiful and Useful Again!

Vintage Pillowcase Dresses - The Sweetest Little Girls Summer Frocks

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Vintage Pillowcases Now Tiny Little Dresses - Just Too Too Cute!

It Can't Get Any More Unique Than This!

Treasure's of Yesterday Become Heirloom Dresses for

Today's and Tomorrow's Little Girls

Pick your pillowcase and we'll create a custom dress for your little one too!

Find them here: Cameo Kids Boutique

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A Darling Pillowcase Dress Giveaway - Enter to Win - Drawing on 7-15-2010

A Vintage Pillowcase Dress Giveaway!

To kick off summer we have decided to have our first giveaway for all you moms for your little one! Yea, free is good! What will you win you ask? This sweet darling vintage pillowcase dress for little ones, or it can be worn as a top for a bit older girl. It's up to you. This little darling measures 18 1/4"L from under the arm to the hem. Measure your child from under her armpit down the 18 1/4" to see where the hem will fall on your child. If it falls where you want it to be on her, it could be yours! If you would like this as a top to wear with leggins, pants, shorts, or a skirt, again measure from under the arm down the 18 1/4" to see where the hem would fall on her for a top. A good length for the top would be at the hip level or right below her little derriere. Any questions just leave us a comment and we'll get back to you.

As a dress this can fit sizes 12M, 18M, 24M/2T, and 3T, just depends on how long you want it to be on your little one. As a top it could fit size 4T, 5, 6, 7, and maybe 8, 9, and even 10. Make sure to measure your child for the right fit.

This one of a kind vintage pillowcase has been upcycled into a darling halter style dress, or top for an older girl. This has been embroidered with pretty flowers in three shades of pink, a lovely contrasting green, and in the center embroidered in white, is the Lords hands in prayer. His robe sleeves are edged in sweet lavender. The top of the dress has been shirred and ties with a beautiful pink satin ribbon through a pink satin ribbon loop in the back in a bow. A handmade lavender satin ribbon rose bud brooch with a tiny loopy edging embellishes the top and, is removable for cleaning. The sweet scalloped hemline is finished with a beautiful heirloom dainty lace. The fabric of the dress is lightweight cotton linen and just beautiful.

We have the mate to this case available and listed on the website for a custom order made dress if your not the winner of this giveaway, and would like to purchase one for your little one. With just a couple of measurements from you, we can have this made up just exactyly like the dress/top above for you in no time! 

You can find it here at Cameo Kids Boutique

To give you an idea as an example of this worn as a top, my neighbor Leila modeled this for you.

Leila is 11 years old - wears a size 14 in tops or a large in girls. She is 4' Tall - and weights 100pds.

She is 29 1/2" in the chest - there is still lots for stretch in this dress/top.

Her waist is 27", and her hips are 32 1/4". It fits her very well, but I think if it was a litte bit longer

than the 18 1/4", it would be perfect on her. So I think size 10, 9, 8, and 7 would be the size for a top.

But that all depends on how long you would want this to be as a top on your child.

Please remember to measure! :)

Now for the rules on the giveaway! To enter you must do these things to win!

5 Chances to Win if you do All 5

1. Leave a comment on this post only.

2. Blog this on your blog if you have one and leave another post letting us know you did.

3. If you Twitter and or have Facebook, post about it in those two places also, and leave another post here letting us know you did.

4. Follow this blog and let us know with another post here that you have followed us. If your already a follower let us know that.

5. Add us to your blog roll or on your blogs that you follow.

Contest Ends Midnight July 15, 2010

Thanks and Good Luck!

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Vintage Pillowcase Dresses - The Sweetest Summer Frocks

Cameo Kids Boutique is known largely for our vintage pillowcase dresses. We list our vintage pillowcases in our online boutique so you can pick the case you love, and then we'll create a darling heirloom quality dress for your little one. 

We have over 67 vintage pillowcases listed at present with many more listing soon. With summer here and on its way in other areas of the country, now is the time to fill your little girl's closet with these comfy little dresses or tops with many styles available. Yours can be made in the original style with the ribbons tying at the shoulders, peasant style, halter style, onesie style, and we can do many variations with each of those. Contact us to learn more.  Many of our pillowcases come in sets of two which is perfect for sisters or twins. There are many choices to choose from each with their own beautiful hand embroidered designs and dainty hand crocheted hemlines. Your dress will also come with a gift card to the little girl receiving the dress, and the story of how these little dresses first originated. These start a new history and story for the dress if you decide to store it away for another little girl one day. 

Below you'll find some examples of what you will find when you visit. These are some of my very favorite vintage pillowcases. (They All Look Much More Beautiful In Person). Each one will simply become one of the most charming little girl's dresses ever! And, they are all packed with the history of days gone by.

Anna

Belle 

Chelse

Cheri

Kellie

Tiki

Yasmin

Crystal

Jackie

Jackie - The dress completed with our pantaloons.

And there are so MANY MORE to choose from on our website!

We're Creating Little Works of Heart with Your Little One's and Mommy's In Mind!

Wedding Flower Girl Pillowcase Dresses

YEA!!! I finally have all my custom orders caught up after 2 Months of sewing my brains out! Tomorrow I'm hitting the pool to get some rays and relax and actually do some people watching for excitement! Sounds like I need a life lol!

I did a wedding about 4 years ago or so now for a lady in Alabama whose daughter was getting married. They wanted pillowcase dresses for the flower girls as they had three of them. Well the mother of the that groom called me recently as now her daughter is getting married and they loved the dresses I did for her son's wedding and asked if I would make pillowcase dresses for 3 more little girls.

These dresses are made of a white linen polyester fabric which is so soft, looks just like linen, but it doesn't wrinkle like linen does, and it flows so nice. She wanted a four inch heirloomy lace at the hemline, and big wide white satin ribbons for the shoulder ties.  These turned out really nice and I hope she likes them. I hope the little ones like them too!

I bought extra of the fabric and some heirloom lace ribbon to make some more of these, but I have another way I'm going to do the neckline. I don't care for the wide casing you have to do for wide ribbon as it looks chunky to me, so I'm going to make a trim and then gather the fabric up and sew it onto the trim, and use the ribbon lace as ties. I think it will look much better. When I get them done I'll show you what I'm talking about.

Well here are these....they really are pretty!

Now some sleep and then a few days to play!  Yippee!!!

TaTa for Now!
Debi


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Part 3: Journey from Recycled Vintage to Heirloom Little Girls Dress

 The Final End to the "Journey from Recycled Vintage to Heirloom Little Girl's Dress"

Vintage Pillowcase Dress and Pink Vintage Chenille Pantaloons

It is Done!!!

It started with this:

Then we added a bit of pink and green color to the embroidery and hand embroidered the little girls name in:

Next the transformation to a dress:

Add the 2die4 pretty pink vintage squiggly chenille pantaloons:

AND......TADA!!!

The set is finished and on its last journey to its new owner!

Isn't it amazing how an old pillowcase can become such a sweet little girls dress, and it's pack full of vintage charm and history too! {cloudy day so picture didn't turn out so good :( }.

See Part 1 of the Journey Here
See Part 2 of the Journey Here

No matter how many dresses I've made, I'm always amazed with their unique beauty and charm, and how sweet they are as dresses. It thrills me to know that they have a new life where others can enjoy their beauty for another day and hopefully alot of tomorrows too.
THE END

Thanks for sharing in the journey!
TaTa for Now!
Debi 

Part 2: Journey from Recycled Vintage to Heirloom Little Girls Dress

The Dress is Done! - Just the Pantaloons Left to go to Finish this Journey! 

Here is the picture of the gorgeous vintage pillowcase where I added a bit of pink and green into the original all white embroiderd design. Now this little lovely is a beautiful little girls vintage pillowcase dress too, an heirloom for today's and tommorw's little girls. I hope my customer, now friend will be pleased.

Here is the before as a pillowcase in it's original form.

I added a touch of color with a soft pastel pink and a soft light green to enhance the beautiful embroidered design and I hand embroidered the little girls name.

Now that beautiful white embroidered vintage pillowcase is a beautiful little girl's pillowcase dress.

All thats left is the sweet pink vintage chenille pantaloons to finish the set and this journey!

Stay Tuned!

See the beginning of this journey here:

http://cameokidsboutique.blogspot.com/2010/04/journey-from-recycled-vintage-to.html

Vintage Pillowcase Dresses

Since 2001 Cameo Kids has offered beautiful one of a kind pillowcase dresses for little girls.   This is the Heart and Soul of Cameo Kids Boutique. These darling old pillowcases that are recycled into sweet little girls summer frocks, were the inspiration that a dream was built on.  Cameo Kids now offers over 67 vintage pillowcases with over 100 more to list on our website for pillowcase dresses.  We offer these cases for customers to be able to pick the pillowcase they want and we custom make the dress for them.  Our creations are more than just a dress.  They are treasures from our past lovingly created by the hands of some womem long ago, full of history, beautifully hand embroidered and hand crocheted. We bring them to life again in another form to be enjoyed once more as clothing for your children.  These dresses are finely crafted with heirloom quality for today's and tomorrow's little girls.  Perfect for passing on from one genertion to the next.  They are given a new life for new stories to share for years to come.  Below are some samples of some of the vintage pillowcases you'll find at Cameo Kids Boutique for custom orders.  You can find these and more here.  We are always adding more so please check back if you don't find what you may be looking for. 

Below are just a few of our past custom order creations. You'll see also some of the different styles of pillowcase dresses we offer like our Peasant Style, Original Style Ribbon Pillowcase Dress, Halter Style,  and our Sundress Style. Not shown is our Onesie Pillowcase Dress, and our T-Shirt Pillowcase Dress.  We also have other variations we have used for dresses with the use of vintage pillowcases.

 

We also create pillowcase dresses using fine fabrics of today.  Below are some of these past creations.

 

We are known largely for our vintage pillowcase dresses, but we offer so much more.  We have many new items to list, so check back often as our ideas flourish and our products are completed. You won't want to miss what we have in store for you!