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Do you know how difficult it is to find 100% cotton nightgowns for girls these days? All nightgowns are made of ick polyrayonmelty materials that bead up into rough yuck. Although you can buy handmade nightgowns which are beautiful, I haven't gone to those lengths.

But, with a little searching around I found that a viable, easy, cheap, alternative is pillowcase nightgowns.

Lots of tutorials for these (like this, and this, and this), but my favorite was this one from Sew, Mama, Sew!

I decided to do a split neck with a ribbon instead of a wrapped bodice, and that looked darned cute. And then Q5's pillowcase had a hole in it, so I had to put a heart over the hole. And I didn't have enough fabric to make two all white nightgowns, so the one with the heart has a pink bodice. And since I was changing the pattern I made some lovely fluffy ruffly sleeves to go with it instead of the more sedate sleeves that C7's gown has.




Q7's gown is a bit big. I made her bodice the same size as C7's because it is a well known fact that her chest is bigger than C7's. Or it was this summer, back to front, anyway, so the gown is a little big on her. Luckily I made her skirt shorter or it would be dragging on the ground big. C7 generously offered to take both and let me make two more.





But I think big is OK, nobody likes a tight nightgown.