The Portion of my Inheritance

Each year it gets harder and harder for me to make the girl’s Christmas outfits. At the last-minute, I am rushing around trying to figure out what I am going to do, and it ends up being stressful. But it’s important to them, and honestly it is to me also, so I at least make the effort.

Aria’s outfit this year has an interesting story. I saw some velvet pants on the internet, at an outrageous price that I could not afford. I kept going back to them until it finally hit me that I have fabric just like that!

I found a vintage pattern with the pants style I wanted to use, purchased at Etsy.

I did some adjusting; the pants on this pattern had a super high waist, even for Aria, so I had to cut that down. I also cut it a little slimmer than the pattern, since I wanted the pants to be more like leggings.

I also made the length longer that the pattern, although they probably should have been even longer.

The super soft crushed velvet fabric was purchased at Bowie Trade Days in one of my favorite booths of all time, for $2 a yard. 

Now that I had half the outfit, what to do for the top.

Turns out that I bought several patterns at a garage sale years ago, and one of the patterns had a red T-shirt already cut out, tucked inside the pattern jacket.  Just so happens that it was sitting on my sewing table about to be thrown out.

I discarded the sleeves and replaced them with lace and dressed up the plain red  T-shirt.

A ruffled lace and tulle collar, topped off with a jeweled button, scraps left over from a Christmas dress a few years ago.

The whole outfit cost me about $3!

The shoes were an early Christmas present that worked out perfectly.