Hello all!

Today’s make is a continuation of my experiments in fabric painting/printing. I was looking for a fabric to make myself a wintery pinafore dress with, and couldn’t quite find what I wanted so I decided to re-purpose an old tablecloth and do some printing.

I decided to use the Tilly and the Buttons Cleo Pinafore pattern as a base because I had it on hand, flaring it out slightly at the hem and cutting the front on the fold. After it was cut out it was time to paint and print! I used the same waterpainting technique that I used for my last fabric painting project, and honestly I struggled to get the background the dark teal that I wanted. I used one of the stamps that I made for the printing of my floral dress, but ended up just using the end of a pencil for the yellow dots because my dot stamp was too big.

The sewing part of the process went super quickly. The only issue I had was that the front facing piece was 3cm too big at the CF, so I sewed a 1.5cm seam allowance at the CF and it was all good. I took in the CB seam slightly to contour it more but didn’t go too far because I wanted to make sure that jumpers still fit underneath it.

I added little loops to the top of the bib so I could tie the straps like Lucy and Yak dungarees do. I did take 4cm length off the hem.

All in all, this was super fun to plan and to put together. It will be great for spring/summer but I think the colours are too light for autumn/winter.

Thanks for reading!

Lauren xx