Xmas pyjama time!

My favourite old tradition! Matching pyjamas for xmas eve. If I'm being honest mine weren't finished till boxing day, but I've been living in them since! 

Matching the pattern on the kid's pyjamas turned out trickier than expected... it's almost as if the grey gingham background and black animal silhouettes were printed separately and the pattern repeats are different lengths! Yikes. I managed to find a "close enough" piece but it's not absolutely perfect. 

Much happier with my own pocket. 

This is a really nice quality flannelette too; last year's didn't have the same body, but this has some heft as well as fluff. If I'm smart, I'll head back to Len's Mill this week to see if they have boxing day deals, and get back to the tradition of getting these finished in July!

It's party apron time!

In the 1960s, my mother (the snappiest of dressers) sewed herself a holiday party apron, in white organdy with applique red and green xmas bells and ornaments (which doubled as pockets) trimmed with metallic rick rack. I just pulled myself out of an internet rabbit hole trying to find pictures. I know I have the original somewhere! But its condition is a bit delicate. 

Anyway I decided to sew one for myself, with matching oven mitts, after being inspired by the FW 2022 Batsheva + Laura Ashley collection. It's hard to see in the pictures, but the polka dots are a soft metallic silver, and the piping is quite blingy!