I made a dress

I can't quite believe it myself. But with our holiday coming up soon I really wanted to make my girls a new dress each to take away with us. I have so many patterns and sewing books and forgot about this one. The book is called Girl's World by Jennifer Paganelli and has a couple of pretty girls dresses but I knew this one was perfect. It's called Tallulah.

A few thoughts on the pattern. It's easy but I didn't find the instructions or the diagrams that clear. Maybe that's because I haven't made any of the patterns from the book before. And I didn't love making the side vents. For example you make the vents first, do the hem and then hand stitch the edges of the hem where you folded up the vents. Not the easiest way to do this. And I prefer more of a full skirt so I'm going to have a play around and keep the bodice but do a gathered skirt and see how that goes with keira's dress which I'm hoping to make next. 

 

But tillie loves her new dress. I used some Flower Sugar for the dress and some cute Colour Basics for the lining. Just the top of the dress is lined but gives a cute contrast from the back.

 

And how did I get any sewing done with a newborn, you ask? I know you're wondering. Well I popped emerson in a sling on sunday morning. Retro daddy was at  mass with keira. I had everyone else and did half the work while emerson was on me. Then finished a bit more in the afternoon with emerson in his rocker and finished the whole dress off this morning.

It felt so good to be sewing again. I forgot how much I love my machine and just making things for my little ones. I feel a few more dresses and maybe some little pj pants coming soon. Summer is a great time to sew and dresses can be so quick and easy.