Update: The Sienna Dress Pattern is now available in the pattern shop! Giveaway winners (jellaan and roseylittlethings) at the bottom of the post! Thanks everyone for the entries and nice comments!
If you’ve followed me for a while you know how much I love using old t-shirts to make clothing for my daughter……but I like to make them with a pattern so the pieces look finished and boutique. I spend weeks and weeks on a pattern to get it just right. I love adding in tons of options to make a pattern versatile and customizable. I love finding ways to use existing seams and hems to minimize the amount of sewing. And then, after a gazillion versions are created in every size by myself and my fabulous testers, I can finally share it:
The Sienna Dress
I love this dress because it is so versatile. Options include: short sleeve, long sleeve, bell sleeve, tapered sleeve, bottom ruffle, and others. Use your old college t-shirts, tie-dye and other knits to make your little girl the coolest wardrobe ever.
Thank you Nicole, Shari, Angie, Deanna, Becky, Lisa, & Leslie for all of your sewing and help with this pattern!

The Sienna Dress is now in the Lil Blue Boo Etsy Shop along with the new Paper Doll Dress pattern. But of course I’ll give away a few first!
You’ll find the giveaway info at the bottom of the post after some cute photos! There were too many cute dresses to show, but check out the Lil Blue Boo Flickr Gallery soon for more!







The Sienna Dress PDF pattern & tutorial includes:
:: 26 pages of easy to follow step-by-step complete sewing instructions
:: 71 full color images, diagrams and drawings to demonstrate pattern specifics
:: 7 pattern pages which include separate patterns for sizes 6-12M, 2T, 3T, 4T, 5 & 6
:: Options for sleeve lengths and bell sleeves or tapered sleeves
:: Options for customizing your dress by adding a ruffle and adding your own graphics
:: 26 pages of easy to follow step-by-step complete sewing instructions
:: 71 full color images, diagrams and drawings to demonstrate pattern specifics
:: 7 pattern pages which include separate patterns for sizes 6-12M, 2T, 3T, 4T, 5 & 6
:: Options for sleeve lengths and bell sleeves or tapered sleeves
:: Options for customizing your dress by adding a ruffle and adding your own graphics
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED (originally posted 9/15/2009)
The winners of the Sienna Dress Pattern are:
Very cute! I'd love to win the pattern. I would make it for all my friend's little girls. 🙂
Your creativity is amazing!! And your models are so cute too! Especially LOVE the picture with the golf club!!
I love the dress. It looks just so cute.
I would make it for my 2 girls and probably for every other girl I know 😉
Me, please! 🙂 🙂 🙂 I have some cute t-shirts in mind, including one that's turquoise with some stripes and one little green butterfly. I'd also love to rummage through my husband's stash and steal a few. 🙂
I follow you. 🙂 [email protected]
I won an art contest in 5th grade and the reward was my design on the school shirt for that year. I still have the t-shirt…that is the one I'd use!
I would use my husband's many old Hillsdale College tees and Michigan State med school tees. My one year old Bella Goose would wear this adorable dress to football games this fall. Everyone tailgating would love it! [email protected]
Ooooh, I love your work. I've already stashed several t-shirts that are just waiting for a new life. I stalk our thrift stores for unique t-shirt…pathetic, geeky but fun for me.
The one that I want to do right away is a monkey pirate t-shirt combined with a striped t-shirt I have.
This dress is so,so cute. I miss sewing for my "little" girls and this would be so much fun to make for my great grandniece (that's like being a great grandmother and I'm only 49) For the T-shirts I'm thinking University of Maryland's "Fear the Turtle". Both of her parents went thewre for graduate school.
I love this dress and all the options! I am not comfortable making clothes yet, but maybe this will be my first project!!
I have a shirt with a crown that says "I wear the crown in this family" Since this no longer applies to me, I figure I can turn it into a dress for the one who now wears the crown!! 🙂 Cute new pattern! Thanks for the giveaway!
I twittered about it:) In the last poste I meant to say that I follow you already too.
I'm so excited to see a pattern just in time for fall. I have a tye dye shirt and a power puff girls shirt that would look fabulous as this pattern (I already follow your blog :))
I know the exact shirt I will use…My husband has a Pantera Shirt from 1989 that does not fit him but he keeps for the "memories" I sleep in it all the time. My daughter would look so cute rockin this shirt of her Daddy's. He would love it too. 🙂
I am a follower 🙂
Your button is on two of my blogs!
I blogged about the giveaway!
I just found you last week Ashley….and I just LOVE your blog and your style!!
My DH has a Florida State tee from college that doesn't fit, but has such great memories. I think that would make an adorable dress.
Hugs! Ingrid
What a great pattern, so impressive. Would so love to win and make cute dresses for my baby girl! I am a follower!
i love the dress pattern!! so cute! and i hope i win! i have a couple of our old college shirts from our school BYU that i would love to turn into dresses for my daughter madilyn. especially my hubbys graduating class tee. thank you for the awesome giveaway- love the blog!
I really love all of your patterns so far. I can't wait to make my daughter dresses featuring my husbands old college shirts. He is a huge Florida Gator fan and has approx 100 tshirts. I would love to get rid of the old ones and make my daughter dresses to wear on game day! My email is kenzid at gmail dot com. Thanks!
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YOu really are so talented. I think I would use my husbands Wake Forest shirt to make my little girl a cute dress!
I am a follower of your blog.
and i'm a follower- thanks!!
i have a dark purple shirt, with a sparkly elephant on it that my emma loves to tough when i wear it, so i think she would love a dress out of it!
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im also a follower. 🙂
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i also tweeted about this post. 🙂
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i love it! i have several shirts in mind, but i'm most excited about my husband's air force basic training graduation tee!
& i follow u! 😉
I would love to win. Thanks for the giveaway.
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and i've blogged about it-
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thanks again and i sure hope i win!!
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First of all, I have to say I love this pattern for its versatility! It looks adorable! I have an old JCREW t-shirt that I would use to make this dress for my daughter. I think it would look adorable with some navy and a polka-dot print! I follow your blog and also have a link to your site on my blog! Thanks, Alicia
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So Cute! Good Work! I would use some of my old Clemson tshirts and some fun band and souvenir tshirts my husband and I have collected through the years. Can't wait to try it!
LOVE this dress! I am a Dr. Pepper fan and I have this old shirt that says "I'm a Pepper!" with a DP logo and it's the maroon DP can color. It would be awesome for this dress (which I would make for my almost-3-year-old).
I absolutely love this dress! I saved all my favorite punk rock t-shirts with the intention of someday finding a fun use for them. This is it! The first dress I make will be from an old Operation Ivy shirt! My 11 month old will be the most rockin' baby at daycare!
And I follow you!
Oh! I would love to win this pattern and use one of my many Morrissey shirts to make a dress for my Sienna!
Thanks for doing the giveaway!!
I'd love to win the Sienna pattern!! That dress is so darn cute! I have a few vintagey Hawaiian shirts (mostly hubby's, so sssshhhh!!) that I think would be so tres chic as a girly dress!
I would love to have one of your new patterns. I have tried most of your tutorials and LOVE them all. Our son is a patient of St.Jude Children's Hospital (currently cancer free…God is good). So, if I am lucky enough to be a winner I will re-use several of the cute t-shirts we have from there for the little sister. As always, thanks Ashley for taking the time to create and share.
I follow your blog 🙂 Love recycled/ upcycled clothing!
i love this pattern! My first project would be using my 8th grade state track shirt from the 90's. Then maybe some of my hubby's old baseball shirts. Love it!
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I would use the pattern for my two little girls at home, i love to recycle/upcycle my husbands dress shirts into dresses… now i would have a pattern for his t-shirts as well! He has some very cool guitar and Jimmy Hendrix shirts that would work great 😉
Oh boy, my teen-aged son has some great t-shirts that he no longer wears, they'd be adorable turned into dresses for our 1 year old grand-darling! His grey 'modest are the hottest' would be on the top of the list though!
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Grammy Kate
Love these! I can totally see my daughter wearing one! I'll have to rummage through all my shirts to find the right ones to use. I would probably mix mine with hers, maybe even use some fabric from some of her old dresses! [email protected]
A LSU t-shirt so i can make this dress for my niece and if the baby we are expecting in Nov is a girl! (its a surprise)
i have a i heart NY t-shirt screaming for this pattern!! and maybe a strawberry shortcake one too!
I simply love what you do with old t-shirts. You have given me great ideas of what I can do with all my old college t-shirst that I can't bring myself to donate or get rid of. I have already made my daughter two skirts and feeling good about my sewing potential. The skirts were my first items of clothing to make solo 🙂
Amanda…aka…Madison & Max's Mom
My hubby just got a free shirt from ThinkGeek.com with an order he placed, I'd love to see my little girl in it in the form of a cute dress – especially since it says "thanks for the brains". LOL
Thanks for the chance to win it. 😀
I am a follower 🙂
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your button is on my blog 🙂
love the short sleeve version on the little cutie
I have 2; one that says Green is the new Black, and one that says Love Life….perfect for my little hippie princess!
A pink and charcoal John Deere tee that is a bit small for me.
It's my 10 year college reunion and I would love to make one of my college tees into a super cute dress for my little one.
I've got some sesame street shirts and some college ones too that I would use.
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I'm a follower
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I have a Barry Manilow concert t-shirt that would be so cute as a dress. Yes, I said Barry Manilow 🙂
I tweeted! (@jensmithmoore)
oooo oooo ooo pick me…pick me…I have some great old school shirts I'd love to use. 🙂
I love upcycling and creating things from t-shirts, vintage fabric, etc. I have some Roxy t-shirts and an old JCrew t-shirt that I'd love to make into a dress for my daughter! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity! Fingers crossed!!!
I really love your blog. I would use one of my beautiful german immersion camp shirts.
I already follow your blog. My email is nesaja84 (. at .) web (. dot .) de
I have your button on my blog. My email is nesaja84 (. at .) web (. dot .) de
And as a last: I blogged about it on my blog. My email is nesaja84 (. at .) web (. dot .) de
Somewhere, I have pieces I cut off a 10,000 Maniacs t-shirt from high school. I'd LOVE to use those for a dress for my baby girl!
I follow your blog.
Great job!
I never win anything, but in case I do, please choose someone else with a little girl to sew for 🙂
Wow! Super cute! I would have to use some old college tshirts to make a cute dress for my daughter so she can cheer for them as well!! [email protected]
either an auburn or seaside shirt. but really i have too many to chose from!!! can't wait to see the pattern!
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I love all your dresses. You daughter is one lucky little girl! I want to make Cadence a dress out of my USU (college) shirts to wear to the activities we attend on campus. Homecoming parade is coming up!!!
i'd love to say i'd make it for my daughter first, but it always seems the projects for her get put on hold. i'm fairly new to sewing and it takes me awhile to complete things, but she would get one of these this fall.
i follow your blog….faithfully! 🙂
I would love to make a cute little dress out of one of my college T's…she would be rockin' some school spirit!!!
Lynette
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YAY!!! I have been waiting patiently for a long sleeved pattern 🙂 I have a TON of old shirts laying in my closet ready to turn into something. My husband has a few bob marley shirts Im dying to get my hands on 😉
Love it and I'll use a vintage looking Sunkist t-shirt for the dress!
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awesome!!! i hate guessing on size and just hoping she will grow into it.
total follower
you betcha you have a button on my blog!
ADORABLE! I loooooove working with old t-shirts!!
and, of course, i am a follower!
so cute! I'll probably raid my hubby's closet! He has some old Notre Dame shirts I've been wanting to use. Thanks for the chance!
I have your button!
Would love to win this for my girlies! They have had some super cute logo shirts on sale at Target that I would love to use on this!
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I'm a follower of your blog.
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I have this cute shirt I got from Goodwill the other day that says "I think my baby's a communist". Its a band shirt. I would definitely use that one!
I don't know which tshirt I would use first! This is a really cute pattern! So many options!
I do follow your blog….love all the ideas!
I have a few that I'm considering. I love your site.
I had a favorite old t-shirt of mine (it was an olive green with a deep pink print on it and was a coffee theme) that I was going to use for a dress for one of my girls, but alas that t-shirt was in our suitcase that seems to have gotten permanently lost or stolen on our recent flight. So, I might have to give up my other fave…a vintage-y blue one with ruby, red high-heel shoes on it…perfect for either one of my shoe-loving little girls!
Oh these are so cute. I am going to use my Pooh bear shirts that are too small.
Too cute! My daughter was born in Hawaii so I'd use a female outrigging (canoeing in the ocean) Tshirt. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
Adorable dresses – I have a perfect Janis Joplin T that would be great as a dress for my daughter!
Oh – and I added your button – love to visit your blog 🙂
i would use my old college Hook 'Em Horns tee-shirt! would make such a cute dress!!!
It has to be a Dukes of Hazzard General Lee shirt that I set aside for this project! I love this dress, the versatility, and the ability to take non-girly things and make them girly enough for my girly-girl! She may make me add rhinestones to it, though. LOL!
I am a faithful reader and follower.
This is too cute, I love your eclectic style! If I can stand to part with it I would make my Samster a dress out of my favorite pink tee that has a great pen drawing of birds on it. It's perfectly old and soft, she's the only one I'd give it up for. (;
I absolutely LOVE your blog, and all of your ideas! I refer SO many people here… thanks to you the creative bug has come back to me! I would love this pattern… I love sewing, but am still new, so I need lots of help……. your patterns seem SO easy!
Your button is on my blog!
I'm a follower!
Adorable. I'd make at least two for my daughter: one from an old Dave Matthews Band shirt (me), and one from an old race shirt (my husband). A girl needs to show where she;s from. 🙂
I'm a follower too.
Great giveaway! I'd be using my huge tshirt collection (which I've been wanting to downsize without giving up any of my favorites) to dress my cutie pie!
Awesome! Just what my daughter needs for her fall wardrobe! I would use my green "outruns a deer" ostrich shirt (spoof on John Deere shirts)..love it!
Love it! I would make it for my girls!
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I don't have a specific shirt in mind but it won't be hard to come across one in our house…I keep gaining weight (can't loose it after my babies!) and my husband keeps losing it! Plenty of outgrown clothes around here!
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My favorite t-shirt I would use would probably be a U.S. Navy shirt for my niece. Who has a mommy and daddy who served in the Navy! She would look super cute in it!
I would love to win this pattern! So cute and creative, as usual!
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A Toss up between my United Nations Shirt that was actually one of my college roomies – too cute. OR my awesome-tacular lime green T-shirt from the Gap with a funky blue design on it. Oh I think I'll have to make them both! 🙂
I have a t-shirt, my husband brought home from dental school that says let's get to the tooth of the matter. I think it might be perfect. That one or my I heart Ferris t.
I REALLY need to learn how to do this! This is just too adorable!
I have a whole bag full of shirts ready to be made into something fabulous for my daughter 🙂
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My husband has so many t-shirts in every color, and I think I may get some of my brother's old tye dye shirts! So excited to try this! [email protected]
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I have a few t shirts from Disney that would be perfect.
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My husband has the funniest Viva Mexico t-shirt that would be perfect for a fun dress!
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Super cute! I have a Kermit the Frog shirt that would make a super cute dress 🙂
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I'm a follower of your blog 🙂
Your button is on my blog 🙂
I blogged about your giveaway 🙂
I sooooooooooo want adress like that for myself!
And have to make one for my 3 yr old from a Rolling Stones shirt that I've kept for ages, thinking I could make something amazing out of it one day…
i love these dresses 🙂 i have a super cute pink tshirt i've been holding aside, this would be perfect
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Oh how lovely do those dresses look. You are so talented to come up with a pattern for that.
The possibilities are endless and every one will be an individual too.
Well let see…my favorite T- that I would love to use to make A's dress…it would have to be a gray Tinker Bell one that just doesn't fit me right, but would look adorable as a dress for A.(no funny comments on a grown up owning a tinker t.- yes, I like tinker!)
I am number 140 so there is virtually no chance I'll win this but I'll get it anyway. I have an obsession for using old t's but have never thought about a pattern for them!
Being as I love your work, I'll just follow your lead 🙂
I have a small red Rolling Stones T that I've been setting aside and a vintage woodstock t also. Both will be awesome with a tie dye ruffle and bell sleeves… I'm droooling now!
OK here's my 2nd entry, off to blog it (twice even!) for you and because I'm really excited about it!
Having grown up on the east coast, I have played field hockey since I was about 10 yrs. old and I've got WAY too many hockey shirts that sit in my drawers. I'd love to put some to use for my daughter – because she's got to know all about field hockey, of course. And look cute. DId you know they play in skirts?? OH yes. 🙂
And I'm now "officially" a follower, even though I was before. 🙂
How great…… love the pattern and love your blog.
Delene
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LOVE THE DRESSES!!! I have soo many Tshirts I could use but I think I'd like to use some of my hubby's brown and my old pink shirt… some were the wrong size form a Christmas a few years ago 🙂 My little one is 3 and wears a 2/3T. I'm folling your blog… Thanks! Kim
Love the pattern! Just showed it to my five-year-old granddaughter and she likes it too. Not sure what tees I might use; might even check out the thrift stores to see what neat ones they have.
Just wanted to say the dress is adorable and I love all the options! We're heading back to Cornerstone Music Festival next summer for the first time since our daughter was born. We have a huge pile of old band shirts I've been wanting to do something for her with. I think this pattern would be great to make her entire festival wardrobe from!
looks so comfy…my daughter would be so happy in it…great job!!
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I love the pattern! Too cute & so versatile. I would make some UGA ones & possibly some USC or Clemson ones. We are big on college football in my town. Can't wait to make some (I will purchase the pattern if I don't win it)!
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I would use my old Army PT shirts, and add a zip of color somewhere to that standard charcoat gray. Hope we win!
I love this dress it looks so fun to make and wear. shoogy will love one. And I will love to make it for her I've started collecting old T-shirts…
Being a 28 year old single momma, I'm always looking for CUTE birthday presents. I know this is going to sound weird, but my ex-husband's little girl is about to have a birthday and I would LOVE to make her a dress! I think it would be a little Lynyrd Skynyrd and a little zebra…he he he
Oh, and one made out of an old t-shirt that her mother gave me that says "Cowboys make better boyfriends." Yes, my ex-husbands wife and I get along nicely…she was my best friend growing up….long story, small town…Anyway, now that I've written a whole post in my comment, I'd LOVE to win the pattern!!
Oh, yeah, and I follow your blog. And twittered the giveaway!
Love the pattern! I would make it with an old Berkeley t-shirt that I have and have loved for many many years….its falling apart at the neck but I can't bear to throw it away……but seeing all your patterns, I don't think I'll ever throw away another t shirt again!
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I have an arkansas razorback shirt that'd be great, one of our local school t shirts would be cool to wear to ballgames!
I'm so glad I follow you! And I put a button on my blog for ya too! I'd love to win this! thanks for the contest!
i'm a follower!
I follow your blog now~ (although i did have ya in my google reader :))
After two boys, we are going to have a baby girl in December. I have been busy making cute clothes for her to wear and would love the pattern for this! i have lots of fun tshirts to try it with!
I love this dress! I want to make one for my granddaughter out of one of her mom's high school t-shirts that she saved. We have plenty of shirts to re-make. Love this!
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I follow you! It makes my day to read your blog every morning.
I tweeted about your giveaway on Twitter.
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I posted about this giveaway on Facebook too!
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id use my shirts that are too tight !
im a follower
Been following your blog for a while!! Love all you ideas!!
Not sure what T-shirt I'll use for the dress, but I've got plenty, plus plenty of cute knit I've been wanting to use!
I would love this attern. My daughter is going to be 2 and will love this. iv e been trying to get daddy to give us this volcom shirt to use… hopefully we will win and get it….
I would use a Beatles t-shirt, that looks vintage!! It would be perfect, since my daughter likes the Beatles–and LOVES dresses!!
I love this dress. So cute and creative. My husband is in the military and he has LOADS of military shirts that would be soo cute to turn into dresses for my two girls.
Thanks for this great chance! Follow and button too!
I asked Andrew to clean out his T-shirts last week so I have a few to choose from now! Probably a baby blue colour to make a change from all the pink lately!
Bron
Ok – I'd TOTALLY use my husband's shirt from high school (um, 16 years old)! Or, maybe I'd use the one that he has that says "Waco – home of da bears and da vidians". Yeah, classy, huh? 🙂 Really cute pattern!
I have several shirts ready for this project don't know which one will be first.
Ooh, Iowa State state shirts, or vacation shirts would be great, too!
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Since my husband is a runner, I'd most likely use some of his race t-shirts. It would be fun to see my daughter in them!
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LOVE this pattern and I just got a new sewing machine! I'd use for ASU football tees or vintage motorcycle tees. So fun!
Tracy
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I would use either my worn out, but very comfy, Beatles shirt, or some from college. I would make it for my daughters, who either live in t-shirts or sundresses, this dress is the perfect marriage!
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I love your blog!!! This dress is a great idea. I will use it for all five of my girls. They all have Angels shirt that i would love to make into dresses for a more girly touch.
Thanks for all the ideas.
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I have your button on my blog too.
I love these dresses. I have several T shirts in mind. I have my eat your veg offwhite shirt with line drawings of all kinds of veg in olive green to pair with may daughter's outgrown striped jewel-toned Areopostale shirt, a couple OK Univ shirts together, Batman and stripes, etc. I have so many girls I could make these for as gifts besides my own.
I love your designs. I have many T-shirts that have–ahem–shrunk. The first I'd use are my purple Arizona Diamondbacks Tees. I think those designs would be fun to use with your pattern. Thanks for this giveaway!
Denny
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I have a beatles shirt that is dying to be made over!! Thanks!
I love the peace sign dress. Thank you!
I would love this pattern for my little girl! Her daddy would be happy to see her is an OSU shirt! Thanks!
Very Cute. Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂
Brenda
Hi! I would be hard pressed to pick just ONE favorite vintage tee! I will say that the first I will use though is a great Les Mes broadway play shirt from the 80's I bought at a thrift store in High School and have never been able to part with!
Thank You!
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Love the peace dress! Great pattern!
Love the peace dress! Great pattern!
I've read your blog for a while and love this dress (along with all of your other projects!)… and realized that it might just be time to part with my hasn't-seen-the-light-of-day-in-years Lollapalooza tee. From 1991. I love my daughter *that much*, lol!
I added your button to my blog already. And I would LOVE to win this pattern.
I would use some of my Disney shirts.
I follow you blog. 🙂
So cute! I have a Harvard tee that would be perfect for this project!
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Just showed my daughter…looks like I have some sewing to do 🙂
absolutely adorable. yes, i have at least 3 shirts: a jedidiah boarding shirt, a chico state alumni shirt, and a hot pink elmo shirt. 😉 i'd get some gooooood use out of this pattern!
i'm following. 🙂
These dresses are so cute! You're so talented, creative and inovative. I'm so following you!!!
Have some old t-shirts and can't wait to try this out… 🙂
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These dresses are so cute! You're so talented, creative and inovative. I'm so following you!!!
Have some old t-shirts and can't wait to try this out… 🙂
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What a beautiful child.
WOW WOW WOW!!!!
I need to spend more time online. i have only just dicovered you and your patterns.
I make things for little ones from reclaied fabric )…off to explore more…but trust me i'll be emailing you 🙂
Tricia
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love this pattern – finally blogged about it (after using it for almost a year.)
Jess
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