Creating Your Own Tablecloth

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"Recycled" Tablecloth

Today I am working on my display booth for our business by making a tablecloth. My inspiration is from this site:  http://www.somuchbetterwithage.com/2014/03/how-to-make-ruffled-tablecloth-trash-to/ .  I had bought some old fashioned calico cotton fabric and I found some white linen cafe curtains at a flea market. I am taking advantage of the finished hem on the cafe curtains & cutting them down to use as a ruffled edge to my calico tablecloth. I am using the whole width of my calico fabric so I have selvedges and don't have to worry about the fabric unraveling there. 

Tablecloth in Progress -- adding the white ruffles

Picture of Finished Tablecloth -- Using Four Aces Banner

I also have a big  length of black felt fabric -- I am going to try different ways to get the word AVON on it.  Just cutting out some big letters out of construction paper or the rubberized paper is not going to do it, I don't think.  I don't think that it will adhere well to the felt.  I think what I will do is use some type of pink fabric and then use the iron on material and see if I can get the Avon lettering to adhere.  If it doesn't I might contact the local lady who does embroidery using her machine and see if she can letter Avon onto the felt & what she would charge me.

Cindy Peterson aka Gato
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Camisole / Panty - Reusing Fabric

I ran across Gertie's Blog for Better Sewing and I fell in love with her vintage camisole and panty pattern (Butterick 6031). So I went on Etsy and found a copy of this pattern from crystalslaceandmore.

When I got the pattern (along with some other pretty things - thanks Crystal) I attempted to source the required items locally. Walmart & Hobby Lobby let me down & I knew Michaels didnt have much in the way of sewing. I couldn't find some of the specific items I needed at Hancock or Wilson fabrics and/or didn't want to pay the high price at these places.

So for fabric I ended up using the pink lining from a silk short skirt purchased at a thrift store. The lining was double stretch material. However since the skirt was sized small, there wasn't enough pink material for everything. So I found an old white very soft stretchy T-shirt of mine. I cut this t-shirt up & used it for the upper part of the camisole. I found an old pink soft t-shirt (very close in color to the pink fabric used in the camisole body) and used that fabric to make the panty.


The stretch lace I found on frogfeathers (also on Etsy). And I purchased the 1/2" lingerie sliders from Artecrafts. A lot of places had the 3/8" sliders but since I already had the 1/2" stretch lace for the straps, I knew I needed the larger size. After constructing the camisole though (I did use Gertie's sewalong for both the camisole and the pantry), I think the sliders need to be even bigger than 1/2" - the 1/2" stretch lace seems too big for the 1/2" sliders.

New Machine

OK I took the other Brother sewing machine back to Wally World to play with its siblings. I replaced it with Mama Brother which is a limited Edition Project Runway 100 stitch machine.

I finished the tablecloth. LOL it is big enough to cover 2 5 foot tables.

Now I am working on my shirt & a pink camisole top using a Butterick's pattern designed by Gertie.