The Tea Towel Dress

I made Claud the Martha Stewart Tea Towel dress for her birthday, in stolen minutes here and there. Except it's the Max Bennett Tea Towel Dress because the Martha Steward dress pattern is in fact infant sized, despite the model standing and looking distinctly toddler-like in the photo. So I improvised. Quietly pleased I finally made Claud an item of clothing. Quietly pleased all the materials, fabric ribbon, buttons, linen tea towel and elastic were all op-shopped.

Show and Telling with Leonie an Co.

I am a girl in a material world:Op-Shop Show-Off :Tuesday August 6th, 2013

Retro Linen teatowel, $8 Trademe.  To be transformed into a Martha Stewart Linen Tea Towel Sun dress for Claud at some point in the not too distant future (approx. before next summer is over).

An off-cut of sheepskin, 50c, Rangiora Charity Barn.  To be transformed into a Sarai Mitnik Faux Fur Collar (featured in Mollie Makes Magazine, way back) for Claud at some point in the distant future (before next winter is over?).

Navy wool blankets; $22. Trademe. The last of the colours I needed for my Hudson Bay Point Braided Rug Project (TBC sometime in the next decade?).




Op-Shops. Making making affordable for all.


Have you bought anything second hand for making or creating purposes lately? Do tell!