Are you taking part in House of Pinheiro's #SewPhotoHop on Instagram this month? If not, make sure you do next September as it's heaps of fun with loads of prizes up for grabs.
Anyway, today's 'makes you happy' photo prompt spurred me on to get this post written. A little while ago, my cheeky monkey of a mum went through my sewn makes and sent me a wish-list comprising of things she thought would suit her. She already has my Sewaholic Lonsdale Dress (modelled in the pictures above) and a few others too!
Despite it being a long list (SO cheeky), she knew that I've not been wearing many of them recently and so fancied her chances. Truth be told, nothing makes me happier than seeing my unwanted makes go to a good home...and there's no better home for them than my mum's!
So I packed up my Sew Wardrobe Clara Blouse, Deer and Doe Belladone Dress, Tilly and the Buttons Francoise Dress, Sew Over It Betty Dress and vintage Vogue 5671, and posted them all the way to America for her!
She was so excited and grateful to receive them, that she volunteered to take photos for my blog. Isn't she literally the cutest?
Being a slightly smaller frame than me, she did have to get a local seamstress to take them in a smidgeon, but it was well worth it I think. She's modelling the Belladone and Vogue 5671 below, with hopefully pictures of the others to come.
What do you do with your unwanted makes? Do you have an eager friend or relative to lovingly take them off your hands?
Your Mum looks lovely in the things you have sewn. The Vogue one and that green Betty dress are gorgeous. It is shame for them to go to waste. What a nice way to pass them on. Xx
ReplyDeleteAwww! Your mom is so cute!! And she looks great in your dresses!
ReplyDeleteI don't usually make clothes for people, so my unwanted/rarely worn makes go to people that have wanted me to sew something for them (if they can fit them of course)
I do have a friend who is smaller than I and often my simpler makes (often knits) that just don't work on me work great on her so whenever we meet for coffee I'm usually got something in my bag for her. She's a yoga teacher and often wears my "gifts" which she says bring in lots of compliments - one navy one in particular had several women asking her where she's bought it!
ReplyDeleteyour mom looks great in your makes and also looks happy wearing them.I actually have not made enough to need to give them away, maybe in a couple of years but I think it will be difficult to do that!
ReplyDeleteWell, she is rocking all of those ones she has modelled so far!
ReplyDeleteI remember you wearing the last one! It looks great on your mum too. Jo x
ReplyDeleteYour mom is just too cute! I could probably pass shirts on to my mom, since babies left me a little bigger than her during pregnancy, But everything else just reluctantly goes to the thrift shop,
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