Frances Webb

French Heirloom Sewing Gallery:
White Pinafore Bib Dress
with Scallops and Teardrops
size 6

Dress Pattern:

• Margaret Boyles. "Meghan's Dress." Margaret Boyles' Pinafore Bibs. Dunwoody, GA: Margaret and Co., 1987.

Dress Materials:

• White Swiss Nelona batiste from the Martha Pullen Co.
• French cotton insertion lace
• French cotton edging laces
• Swiss cotton embroidered insertion
• Swiss cotton entredeux
• Swiss cotton entredeux beading

Dress Embellishment:

• Under the yoke, puffing and embroidered Swiss insertion
• On the skirt, lace-shaped tear drops and scallops with pinstitching
• On the sleeves, lace-shaped tear drops with pinstitching

Slip Materials:

• Pattern: adapted from "Meghan's Dress"
• Red Imperial batiste embellished with machine embroidery stitches using red 40 weight Sulky rayon thread
• Periwinkle Imperial batiste embellished with machine embroidery stitches using periwinkle 40 weight Sulky rayon thread
• Tan Imperial batiste embellished with machine embroidery stitches using tan varigated 40 weight Sulky rayon thread

Dress Yoke Detail:

Dress with Red Slip:

Teardrop Pinafore Bib:

Christmas Santa Claus Pinafore Bib:

Valentine Heart Pinafore Bib:

Autumn Leaves Pinafore Bib:

revised March 1, 2008

Graphics designed by Frances E. Webb
© 2001

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