Too bad this dress is hard to photograph today, because it is one of my favorite little girl dresses that I have sewn. I used a turquoise embroidery thread to hand embroider the blanket stitch around the yoke and at the top of the pockets. The puffed sleeves have elastic casings. I used bias bars [...]
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Lavender Mexican Dress
Posted in Gifts, Mexican Peasant Blouses, Sewing for Kids, Sewing For L on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pink Plus RicRac
Posted in Sewing for Kids, Sewing For L on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This one turned out very well, but whether or not Miss Opinionated will like it is up in the air. If not, I can always donate it to another little girl from church. I managed to sew this out of the textured fabric without destroying the texture the way I have in the past, so [...]
Pink Starry Night Dress
Posted in Sewing for Kids, Sewing For L on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had this pattern for a long time. The little girl I used to sew dresses for using this pattern is now in college. Now there is another little girl in the family, so I am getting out my dress patterns and having fun sewing up some dresses. This dress uses up a yard of [...]
The Blue Dress
Posted in Sewing For L on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Another dress made from Butterick 4434, this time with a zipper instead of buttons. The fabric is a lightweight denim that I had leftover from a skirt I made for A. I couldn’t find any matching fabric for the bodice lining so I went with a hot pink to match one of the colors in [...]
Forest Princess Dress
Posted in Sewing For L on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This dress is so easy to put together because you don’t have to gather a wide skirt. The skirt, in addition, is nice and twirly and would please any little girl. I didn’t have a zipper the right color, so I changed the back closing to a placket and buttons. I needed to have a [...]
Pinkalicious
Posted in Sewing For L on April 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was in the discount decorator fabric store two weeks ago and saw this fabric on sale. My little niece adores the book and is in that pink-and-purple stage, so I got a yard of the fabric and sewed up this tote bag for her. The bag is lined with some yellow denim-type fabric. The [...]
Child’s Mexican Peasant Dress
Posted in Sewing For L on April 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When we were out of town last year for a convention my husband was attending, I saw this little dress: I have been working on a pattern for this dress, and I drew it up in Size 4 because there is a little girl in my family who just turned that age. Here is the [...]
