I Made a Dress Out of Potato Sacks!
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2022
- PO-TA-TOES.
Hey hello yes, let's make a dress out of something that probably shouldn't be a dress! This came out way more hobbit-y than initially planned, but I'm not mad about it.
Pattern I used: Simplicity 7841 Misses (There's also a pajama one under that number for some reason but it's uh... not.. that one)
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slightly wholesome fact: during the great depression, parents would often dress their children in potato sacks, as they did not have enough to afford regular clothing. When potato companies found out about this, they would print fun patterns on potato sacks so the children would not have to wear plain potato sacks (the same was also done with flour sacks, which was more common at the time, but this video is about potato sacks, so i had to include the potatoes first)
I'm pretty sure thus was flour sacks, but it is still a very wholesome historical fact. Thanks for reminding me about this.
They even sometimes gave out paper patterns with flour sacks. My mom was old enough to have flour sacks clothes from the 50's
@@YUtube-go2thebog Did you read the comment?
@@haybale287 apparently not...
When we got married I inherited a bunch of old sacks from his family. They also have washing instructions printed on them so you know how to wash away the product information ink so you can use all of the fabric.
Rachel, you should wear this dress to a state fair or a farmers market to see what people's reactions would be.
That’d be cute
Thought the same!
Absolutely! Or a harvest festival!
I came here to say the same thing!!
That's something I've been missing.. seeing her newly-made clothe wandering out in the wild for others to see. The last one I can remember was the bookshelf backpack and it was very entertaining. I would love to see her yearly halloween costumes at parties, cosplays at conventions, and the potato sack dress at a state fair. Please world, be normal soon.
pleeeaaaase remember this dress when halloween comes around, because I would absolutely love to see you style this as a scarecrow-outfit!
OMG YES
I actually make scarecrows out of burlap sacks during late summer in prep for my workplaces' fall festival thing (its a garden center) so yeah this 100% tracks and would be wonderful
Cute scarecrow girl 🥹
"You could wear a potato sack and look great"
Rachel:
Actually wears potato sacks.
Actually looks great.
🥔❤
"oh wow, your dress!" "what, this old potatoe sack?" is a conversation that can happen now. I love it.
Morgan: Making a Latex Medieval Dress
Rachel: Making a Potato Sack Pinafore
Can't wait too see what Bernadette is doing next.
Victorian coal sack dress??
Or, Karolina Zebrowska.
Only fans ankle photos according to her instagram haha
well, she already made the toilet paper dress lol
Morgan who!!?
I have grown very fond of this, "Jenna Marbles as a retired Massachusetts Hobbit" esque channel over the past couple of years.
What a fun dress, Rachel.
The accuracy of this is incredible
As soon as I saw the cookie tin, I thought: "It's happened. Rachel has reached peak Grandma." :D
I love how people use danish cookie tins for sewing supply. I’m danish and I have never ever seen a cookie tin used like that by a danish sewer.
I have my Grandma’s cookie tin full of thread. Beautiful, silky cotton thread from the 1950’s. Perfectly preserved, it never breaks when I sew with it.
@@FruSalling The lid usually fits really tight so if you drop the tin everything doesn't explode out everywhere, lol.
Ngl kinda love its a nearly universal random thing that happens…I got my tin from my gran lol
This is giving me such "Disney princess before she becomes a princess, and is still living in the woods/on a farm/as a servant" vibes and I love it
I'm here for it
I tend to love these dresses so much more than their ballgowns haha
basically cinderella
Embeth Argent, TOTALLY!
It seems like Rachel is approaching the Jenna Marbles model of "I'm just gonna do whatever weird-ass craft project strikes my fancy! (alongside my skinny dog)" and I for one am here for it
Who IS sheeee?!
Who you fighting?
JULIEEEEEEEEEN!!!!
😔 she was such an icon
She is my new Jenna. But i still miss Jenna. It hurts.💔
“It’s called leg acting. Look it up.” That whole segment made my whole damn day. 😂
I actually looked up "leg acting" because she said to. It's not on Google *anywhere* and now I feel like I was let in on some super secret knowledge
I've rewatched the noodle dance so.many.times. It makes me cackle every time, I love her! 😆😆😆
I love how she embodies both the etherial gracefulness and chaotic gremlinocity of a true fae
Fun fact! My grandma's school dresses were made out of flour sacks when she was growing up, because they didn't have the money to buy fabric or pre-made dresses (this wasn't that long ago either...think late 50s/early 60s...the Depression took its time leaving rural areas). This was common enough at the time that flour companies began selling their flour in sacks printed with pretty patterns.
That last bit is so wholesome!
That’s actually pretty dope! I googled and they look so good. What 🙈
What an interesting piece of history! I wish flour was still sold in big floral fabric sacks
i remember hearing about that, didnt the companies make it so their logos washed put or something so just the pretty design wpuld be left?
@@themadkitkat9302 I've heard the same thing. Some companies would start selling their products/produce so the packaging material could be upcycled into clothes with nice/pretty patterns!
Someone somewhere: *throws something away*
Rachel: *whips head around, nostrils flared to inhale creative potential, velociraptor shriek of joy*
😂😂😂
Your vivid description killed me, thank you 😂
This made me laugh, at a soul level. OMG
I gagged 😂😂😂
_WHEEZE_
Very cute. And "kinda" historical. My mother remembers her grandmother making her night gowns out of flour sacks. :) It was something great gramma learned during the Depression in the 1920s and 30s. (Mom was born in '47.) I understand that alot of flour companies even started printing their fabric flour sacks with pretty designs so they could be re-used for clothes.
I have heard this as well.
Yep, It's a fact.
Wow! That biscuit tin gave me flashbacks to going to my nans and eating those tasty sugar coated biscuits that would sit in little paper cups. Memories unlocked! 🔓 Thanks Grandma Rachel! 👍
The biscuits in those tins really are good! And then you get a bonus sewing kit holder haha
and the disappointment when you’d open it, expecting to see the cookies and finding sewing materials
this reminds me of when someone said marilyn monroe’s clothes were the only thing that made her pretty so she did a photoshoot in a potato sack ✨💅
Same!!! :D
my first thoughts exactly!!
I always knew that Rachel would do this Marilyn scene one day 😭💖💖💖
@@sofiapratto801 I *KNEW* Rachel was going to make a dress out of a potato sack. & completely embrace her inner Hobbit eventually. 🥔🤣
I'm from a small town from Germany and we are celebrating every year a festival called Potato-Festival and every year the potato - princess is crowned. This would be the perfect dress for this 😂😂😂🥔👸
Omg this sounds like my kind of festival!
I do believe that they probably hold something like that throughout the state of Idaho. 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
I’m from a small town in Central Canada and we also have a Potato festival! We used to have a strawberry festival but now we have two French fry factories and local farmers focus more on potatoes. No potato queen, just spud the mascot.
Omg im from Germany too. We celebrate this to. Is this town near to Itzehoe?
@@sillyarmy973 I used to live in a village which did this. But it’s in Vogelsberg in Hesse
Love the dress! Also, get yourself a huge cutting mat and a rotary cutter. You'll save your wrists to much pain when cutting out patterns and fabric.
13:44 Can confirm from my own experience working at one which closed (store nextdoor was landloard and wanted to expand so terminated our lease and the store was informed 5 weeks before closing), people do in fact buy buttons like it was a turbo man doll. Worst part was manually adding the liquidation sale individually at the register to the some 50 buttons. Don't get me started on the lady who filled up a big stocking bin (like 3-4 carts worth) with the last of our ribbon. Registers can only handle about 100 items at a time, and that lady did like 4 transactions. And then the second-to-last day where someone bought some 25 bolts of fleece.... those were a chaotic 5 weeks.
OMG nightmare
I just want to know what one does with an entire 25 bolts of fleece… Like, not even 25 yards, 25 *bolts*.
@@catlover2223 God only knows... maybe making a ton of blankets for charities or something?
@@chaotic-goodartistry3903 Oh! That would actually be very nice! My new headcannon.
Me, angsting all day about my dissertation: "I need a distraction."
Rachel, posts video: "Behold! Potato sack dress!"
Me, finally relaxing with a cup of tea: "Thank you, potato queen."
Sending you good dissertatin' wishes! Breaks are crucial.
Godspeed on your dissertation! I too, am suffering through my dissertation, executive disfunctioning with the potato queen.
Avoiding dissertation writing gang! I've found my people.
I'm doing the same with my thesis! Rachel is how I destress after my Friday meetings with my advisor lol
@@DS-uh6ss Thanks!
Fun fact: during the Great depression they made dresses and other clothing items out of flour sacks. One company noticed this and started producing flour sacks that had different patterns on it so that poor families could make clothes that were nice. 😊❤️
Also very happy to see you sewing again! I love it when you use unusual "fabrics" to make stuff! You have once again made my day! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
They also did this during WWII in the UK. Flour manufacturers figured out that people were buying their product. Not just for the flour, but for the sack because fabric was highly rationed at the time. So they started putting it into sacks that were printed in interesting fabric patterns.
And the logos washed out :)
@@geministargazer9830 Flour manufacturers would just use 'flour paste' to 'glue' their labels onto their bags. When they were soaked in water the labels peeled of & the fabric could be used.
I'm glad someone shared this info- I loved it when I heard it!
I was just thinking about the flour sacks! It would be fun if Rachel would try a flour sack project in the future to complimenet her potato pinafore X3
Smeagol: What's "taters", precious? What's "taters", eh?
Sam: Po-tay-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
You couldn't say no to that.
Yess, yes we could. Spoiling nice fissh, scorching it... keep nassty chips!
I totally keep all the 20lb burlap rice sacks and all of my coffee bean bags! It's wonderful to sew them up into tote bags, very unique! Cheers doll!
I watched this with my kids. My six year old said, "she's making a potato dress so she can be a potato for Halloween."
"She's not a sewing girl anymore she's a potato."
My four year old said, "She looks like Snow White."
ADORABLE!
Kids and their insights are the best!
Yesssssss! I am here for this!
Fun family story: When my grandparents first met, my grandmother was wearing a potato sack dress and smoking a corncob pipe. My grandpa was very intrigued by this outlandish girl who wasn't afraid to speak her mind. It was basically love at first sight.
That is adorable and I love your grandparents ❤️
Your grandmother is an icon!
I hope that one day everyone will find their ideal potato/es and hop in their sacks with them.*
*if that’s what you are into ofc
It sounds like an Outlander AU.
I love it! Thank you for sharing their story with us!
I love it! Thank you for sharing their story with us!
Hey Rachel,
this dress looks amazing!
But please be careful: I once bought coffee bags with prints made of the same material. The lady back than told me that you are not supposed to wash these, because the print will come of.
Please check this before maybe destroying the design. :)
"It's called leg acting" had me laughing harder than I ever thought I could. Brilliant. 10/10.
I'm thinking about 500 years from now, when archeologists find this dress and try to figure how it fits into 21st century society. Love it.
"Rachel has potatoes, if you have the coin." Instead of being a Khajit, Rachel is just a hobbit potato farmer
Wonder if she'll make a Sweet Roll dress...
My family has always had the expression "still pretty in a potato sack" I think you fit the bill.😊
I'm feeling the need for an I Love Lucy potato sack dress now.
Cute dress.
Rachel: casually works next to a cut piece of sack reading “HO TOES” at 15:22
My juvenile brain: Pleasebethefrontpiecepleasebethefrontpiece
hahahaha! same brain!
OMG! That would be hilarious!!!
I thought the same thing 😂
And I thought I was the only one thinking that!
I thought Rachel's bobby pin in her hair was a piece of hay and I was so impressed with her commitment to the potato farm girl style. Alas... it was a bobby pin. 😂
ME TOO 😍😂
Me too haha!
This dress is fantastic. I love the lettering and vintage vibe. Now that you have a cookie tin for sewing stuff, you have leveled up! ❤
Can't believe how well this turned out. The next time you make something with a liner you don't have to make the liner nearly as full as the final skirt. Just four panels would have been plenty!
I was thinking that too! Would cut down on a lot of the waist bulk :)
But would it have the same swoosh?
This dress would be really cool to re-use during the fall. Maybe you could make a version with the pumpkin lady head.
Halloween decor here we come!
Ohh that would be a cool combo 🤩
I agree, 10/10 would smash.
Rachel: "But we don't want spaghetti straps, we want potato straps"
Me: (trying to figure out what those would be called ".........gnocchi straps?" 🤔
Shoestring potato straps?
French fry straps 😆
Pierogi straps, potato filling makes them cushioned.
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING
Spud strings
That is so nice!!! I like the idea of a Marilyn Monroe's potato dress !! Because Marilyn was beautiful whatever she would wear; just like you ✨
Lol my grandma use to put her sewing things in one of those cookie things too. I love this , just like the oggie boggie dress super cute. But tbh all your projects always come out fantastic, you’re super talented and I enjoy watching you make them 👏🏼👏🏼
This made me think of how, during the great depression, girls' dresses were often made at home out of (fabric) flour sacks, and when the flour makers found this out, they started putting pretty patterns on the flour sacks so the girls could have pretty dresses.
I have a few feed/flour sack quilts. The patterns are darling!
Yep, my grandma's family made all their dresses, underwear, nightgowns, and other household textiles like towels, tablecloths, and window curtains out of flour and sugar sack material, although they were doing it before the 1930s because they were that poor. Putting more attractive patterns on the flour and sugar sacks was certainly good for business for the flour and sugar companies!
@@e.urbach7780 On a quilt blog a woman posted her grandma remembered her mother taking all the girls to the feed store to stand by the bags so she could pick them each a fabric. Lol
Wow! It's very cool that those companies did that.
My mom's prom dress was made from potato sacks! She cried, but she ended up prom queen LOL
I *KNEW* Rachel was going to make a dress out of a potato sack. & completely embrace her inner Hobbit eventually. 🥔🤣
She's just going to eventually fully evolve into her final form of Spud Queen.
@@petrastedman669 ROTFLMAO! 🤣 All Hail her Spud-tastic Majesty! 🥔👸
Rachel: *picks up skirts dramatically* LETS GO!!
Me: Literally me every day with my huge, dramatic skirts I wear when I’m not at work lmao
I love your videos 💜💚💜💚
There's some serious "Micarah Tewers making a dress out of chicken feed bags" vibes here, and I love it.
Rachel: "You tell me."
My infant son with his opinions: *screeeeaaaam*
He loves Rachel.
You know, the designer "Magnolia-Pearl" has been using potatoe sacks in her collections for years, and they sell like 'hot potatoes' 😄😉
And they cost a fortune too! I question my sanity when I purchase MP…but I do every blue moon. Ya have to be selective/make sure you’re not giving thrift/yard sale/the “emperor’s new clothes” vibes.🤣🤪
Thank you for sharing this designer! What inspiration!
@@LaceyMyriah you are welcome
Those travel-case cabinets are soooo cute!!
First off: this video was fun and I love seeing you so excited for a project.
Second: You should try making a lolita (the fashion) dress. Simplicity actually has patterns for them. You'd get to make something poufy and cute, and try a new style.
When the sack was the exact same size as the pattern piece ...I felt that. So satisfying!!!
Right? I love it when efficiency perfectly aligns with my laziness!
It soothed my OCD.
It felt unreal! Like how?!
Back in the Great Depression moms were doing this all the time for their girls, the company’s realized what was happening and started putting flower designs on their sacks.
I think that was flour sacks. Not potatoes sacks.
@@feliciareed297 flour sack cloth is WAAAAYYYYY softer than burlap, thank goodness
I was going to say this!
And the company label washed out
There is a display of flour sacks and flour sack clothing at the Herbert Hoover Museum 😅
The Royal dansk cookies were my grandfathers favorite. He died of brain cancer in 2021 and my heart has been broken ever since but seeing you have one reminded me of good times, so thank you. Also I love your channel!
Your SEAMLESS Fleetwood Mac reference only reinforces my love for your content.
"I don't know if y'all have caressed any potato sacks as of recently..." The funniest thing I've heard this century
I feel like it would work well as a retro scarecrow costume in the autumn.
In our village when I was young the grown-ups had a costume party for Halloween! A farmer's new wife made scarecrow costumes for herself and her husband with burlap bags. For buttons she used the lids from frozen orange juice cans. And they won first place.
This would be wonderful!
With the pumpkin head.
@@Pysslis That was my immediate thought too. But now I kinda want to see her make a different head (either typical scarecrow or another vegetable) so it's an all new "character" in the Maksyverse.
That looks splendid! The printed panels next to the faded panels works perfectly, looks more gauzy than just solidly printed panels would've.
You know I believe that potatoe sacks used to have decorated material inside of them that lined the burlap. My grandmother often talked about her mother making her clothes from this. It would be cool to see another version of this where you did that! This one turned out brilliant btw! Can't wait to see what you do next.
I'm astounded at the lack of Potatoes and Molasses! The hair near the beginning was very Over The Garden Wall School Teacher 😊
Agreed, I fully thought Rachel was going to dance to Potatoes & Molasses during the reveal!
Same! As soon as I saw her hair up I thought omg it’s Miss Langtree. I expected her to start singing “a is for the apple that he gave to me…” 🥰
I still can't believe the hair is real. You look great. I guess you have finally achieved the "Eve from the mummy" look.
This might sound crazy, but… This is my FAVORITE thing you’ve made this far!!!! I LOVE IT!!!! Thank you for just being your Rachel!
This brought back memories from when I was in elementary and middle school. My mother would make this style of dress for me and my sister. Then one day, someone told me I looked like I was wearing a potato sack. Had I watched this video , I probably would have felt waaaay better about it.
This is an amazing use of potato sacks btw. Well done! ❤❤❤
I'm not ashamed to admit that I literally finish my garments and then just go back and open up the seams and add the pockets as like the last or second-to-last step. Ain't nobody got time for things like "thinking ahead".
I hate seam ripping so much that I make myself remember the pockets
"I should be able to get most of it done today, it should be easy" The words that always send out a curse that ensures three weeks later I will still be struggling with the project 😄 You have indeed proved that you can wear a potato sack and look good
I did this exact thing today. This. EXACT. THING. Guess who just had to rip out everything including the darts because of the need to do a major pattern adjustment? THIS GUY
I love it, love it,love it. It puts my recently finished vintage table cloth dress to shame; even with the stain on the arm of the dress because.... well, it was a table cloth.
When you were showing the final result my 2,5 year old daughter said: Wow, sessin! (Wow princess) lol 😊
Depression era flour sacks are really the thing for this kind of project.
They even printed them with patterns
yes :) much better fabric out of a flour sack. and you might even get flowers.
I would love to find some legit Depression era sacks to make a dress out of. I would proudly wear that dress everywhere I possibly could.
@@J_Gamble in the 60's and 70's it was chicken feed sack dresses. They had the prettiest prints and the fabric lasted years and years. We had sheets, clothes, and dish towels made of them. They were like linen. The more you washed them the softer they were.
@@reginafetty6374 Lovely! My grandma had some towels made of south america's brand of burlap--hemp. They were wonderful. As you say, they were like linen and very soft.
Sight for sore eyes. I have been staring at my Case Study Homework lost in the sauce but thankfully a Rachel Maksy video is up and now I am found.
I had and loved my Laura Ashley dresses back in the day.
She is a pretty, funny and talented lady. First time I watched her but it won’t be the last.
Looks like something Miss Idaho would wear to the costume part of the pageant, or maybe to be queen of the state fair. I love it!
During WWII flour companies would use attractive and colourful fabric for their sacks so that people would have fabric for clothing during rationing. So Rachel isn't far from an actual historical usage for food related sacks :D
this gives big kit kittredge american girl movie vibes and i’m here for it ✨💖
I love that in the depression people made clothes out of these sacks so the company’s put pretty patterns on the sacks for people to make nice dresses. And now here you are doing it again that’s so sweet xx
"You'd look beautiful even in a burlap sack!!" Next thing you know she'll make an outfit outta mud and itll be just as gorgeous!!
Rachel, Morgan, and Bernadette work together to satisfy all my needs for calming/precise sewing as well as calming/casual/“that’ll do pig” sewing, and everything in between 🥰 I’m so grateful for these wonderful creators!❤️
I love those three too !
@@nono_c.est_tout also Mariah Pattie!
You look so radiant and lovely at the ending breakdown there! This was honestly such a pretty creation, surprisingly so, and it's good to see you happy
When you were on your back on the sacks, with your dark hair, you were giving vintage starlet vibes. Just needed a flower tucked behind your ear.
I feel like everyone's grandma has that exact cookie tin full of sewing stuff
That's so funny! ... Wait... I AM that grandma with a cookie tin full of sewing stuff! 🙃
I don't have my sewing things in one, but I do have one filled with a homemade first aid kit! :D
I didn’t have a grandma like that. I had a grandpa who used cookie tins for things in the garage. Blue was nuts and bolts. Orange was different screws and nails. Red was where he hid his sweets (he was a diabetic). I can’t sew to save my life so I use tins (grandpa’s orange tin) for pens pencils and paper clips.
It's true. Every grandma.
This turned out so cute! I think this would pair really well with the Over the Garden Wall pumpkin head for Halloween. Or just worn to a farmer's market/fall fair!
Oh girl…u never cease to amaze me 😊 you really S-MASHED this one ☺️
Your demonstration of the comfy overalls made so unreasonable happy. As someone with anxiety and depression you are on my list of things I am grateful for. Oh ps house sale buttons so much cheaper
When she said “one step up from a snack, I want to be an appetizer” I immediately thought of “Forget being a snack, I want to be a biologically book”it’s one of my favorite things she’s ever said
My mother actually made skirts from flour sacks, that were printed cotton produced to provide material for use during the 30s and 40s, vintage pre-planned recycling.
That surprised me! Super hyped about this dress! But I just lost my job because our Joann location closed just this past month. Seeing another Joann closing down just kinda hit me again that our little store is gone 🥲 on a less sad note, Thank you for providing another lighthearted potato themed video 👍✨
A great recycling project!… a peasant farmer girl Dress…. The print really makes it special… …. Love Frodo!
Kudos to you for being able to wear a dress that says, “Idaho,” without making jokes about that… not sure I could resist if I was wearing it! 😂
"that's right I da ho!"
@@SomeBody-wx9pq THAT was EXACTLY what I meant! 🤣🤣🤣🙌
The immediate excitement and disappointment I felt upon seeing the infamous button holding cookie box was physically felt. You have been elevated to true grandma status, congratulations Rachel🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😂😂😂
From this day forward, we shall all remember the day that everyone’s morning motivational dance became… the noodle dance!! 💃 Yasss potato princess
This came out so stinkin cute. Cool to see you sewing again, and having so much fun with it.
All those in favor of a Potato sack dress video, say "Eye"!
_"EYE!"_
... The eyes have it!
I LOVED this video, was cool to watch and made me laugh several times. Thanks, Rachel! Your videos rock!
Too funny. rotfl!
It’s “aye” not “eye” btw :)
Thank you for this little gem!
@@ClurTaylor I just assumed they were making a play on the word using "eye" like potato eye lol
@@ClurTaylor It would be "Eye!" if potatoes turned pirate!
Speaking of I Love Lucy's potato sack dress, now would be a good time to request Ethel's arrow dress. Lots of binding. :0)
the jumpsuit/romper outfit is giving aunt ethel vibes and I could not be happier, immaculate dancing.
Rachel’s leg acting would fit right in at the Ministry of Silly Walks
There's something about the texture of burlap as clothing that I actually really dig. It kind of makes you look like a painting, I guess because has a similar texture to canvas, especially in the sunlight.
And it probably helps that it has that rustic charm to it.
This reminds me of, "Wartime Farm" with Ruth Goodman. She made a dress out of a flour sac, evidently something that happened a lot during the war, the flour companies even started trying to use fabric that women would want to use for a dress.
My great grandmother made my aunt's dresses like this in the 1930s and 1940s
I remember in that series that Ruth Goodman said during WWII in the UK. Flour manufacturers figured out that people were buying their product. Not just for the flour, but for the sack because fabric was highly rationed at the time. So they started putting it into sacks that were printed in interesting fabric patterns. To try to tempt women to buy their brand of flour over their competitors.
I love that show so much!
@@Whitney_Sews Have you seen all the other farm videos she's done? There's also a castle one and a train one. Oh, and the Victorian Pharmacy. I love them all.
@@joshuanichols381 That would be cool to see. Does your family still have it?
Rachel noodle dancing for us in overalls with whiskey grandpa vibes is the content I'm here for - I'm glad you're settling in your new home!
I got beginning of the Disney movie Snow White vibes from the reveal. This was really cool, and it's always great when you can pull from past experience to make something new.
The dress came out great! Another unconventional fabric idea: vintage tea towels. I've collected a few and am planning to make a dress, after seeing some cool ones other people have made!
Oh my gosh love that idea!
"Search my fabric stash for inappropriate lining." 😂 I know that's not what you said but it made my day
Love you and your ingenuity and chao
That is tragically cute!!! Seriously. Also, well done with the stitching down of the pleats. 🥰
Rachel, many many years ago my grandfather bought chicken feed that came in the old fashioned feed sacks. In ye olden days they would make the feed sacks out of heavy cotton with pretty prints on them. I talked my grandfather out of a couple and unstitched them. Then I made a couple of feed sack skirts just like my great grandmother did. It was a wonderful experience and I LOVED those skirts!