Flirty Flamingo Playsuit

This month I decided to join in for #SpringForCotton hosted by the lovely Rochelle over at Lucky Lucille. 

Then I stumbled onto The Monthly Stitch and saw that the challenge for the month of April was "Put a BIRD on it!" 

So, since flamingos are, in fact, birds, I decided to stitch up and use this flirty little play-suit to complete both challenges! 

As you know from my last post I spent the last two glorious weeks in the Sunshine State enjoying some lovely times with my family. I just managed to get this finished up in the last few days of vacation and had the chance to have it photographed with the lovely palm trees. I miss palm trees so much. But I digress.

This play-suit is a mash-up of McCall's M6969 and the skirt from Vogue V9000. I did view C of the romper and just used the skirt pattern as a template for the gores.

My fabric for this project is this lovely,vibrant, flamingo print, 100% cotton, shirting and a solid pink quilting cotton. I'd been eyeing the flamingo print for about four months and happened to go in with a 50% off coupon and snagged 5 yards of this for only $25! That's a huge bargain as far as I'm concerned.

I also settled on self-covered buttons for this project.

For the construction of the first part, the romper, I decided that I wanted to do a solid color top and use the flamingo print on the bottom. I wanted it to look as if it were two pieces without actually being so. I also liked the idea of being able to wear the romper by itself with a belt and have it still look like a two piece set.

I added the white bias binding on all of the hems. I really liked how the contrast of the white played against the brighter colors.

Due to the long trip and baggage regulations, I was only able to bring limited supplies with me to my mom's. Luckily, she is also a sewist and was willing to share her sewing room with me during my stay.

That also included getting to sew it up on her Husqvarna Viking Designer 1!! This thing sews like a dream. Seriously, it's worth every very expensive penny. While I hope my mother lives forever, I also hope she leaves this to me in her will... unless she decides one day to upgrade and feels the need to pass this on to me. I wouldn't complain one bit.

Lovely woman that my mother is, she also played my photographer for this project. Usually I just photograph my makes on Millie, my dress form. Unfortunately, she was still at home in Ohio and my mother doesn't have one. So that meant, I had to get dolled up and get outside and in front of the camera. We are by no means professionals, but they didn't turn out to bad for cell phone pics. 

So there you have it. This is #vintagepledge make number 3 for me! I'm over half way to my goal of 5 for the year. I guess it's time to unpack, clean up and figure out what my next project will be!!

Much love!!