Gabriela's Easter Dress - 2019

It's become a tradition by now - every year, I make a yellow Easter dress for my sweetness Gabriela. I don't know why it has to be yellow :) It doesn't, but it was yellow two years ago, last year I made it yellow because the first one was yellow, and this year, I'm turning it into a firm tradition: it must be yellow or some shade of yellow. Anyhooooo...

I made it early this year, because I wanted to give myself sufficient time in case I messed up or if my idea was good in my head, but wouldn't quite work when realized. But I think it turned out pretty well. And it's Peter Rabbit, so it can be worn for Easter, but it can also be worn as a regular day slightly dressier dress :)

I love that the materials for it came from everywhere! The corduroy fabric is from the luckyshot0228 on Etsy. It's actually in Seul, South Korea! The special carrot buttons are also from an Etsy shop - the MagiCuts, based in Lisbon, Portugal. The Peter Rabbit machine embroidery design is also from an Etsy shop - Stitching Blues. And the lining and rickrack for the hem are from my faithful local JoAnne's Fabrics in Ballard.

Here it is on a toddler dress form:

And here it is laid flat so that you can see the Easter eggs lining :) and get the close up of these very special buttons. There were 5 buttons total in the package that I got. I need to figure out what to do with the other 3!

Childrens Clothes

Wow! I can't believe my last post was so many months ago! I haven't exactly been idle. Quite the contrary: I've modified and successfully used quite a few patterns since the peasant blouse. I've played with many embroidery designs. I picked up a new amazing embroidery machine and several child dress forms.

The problem is that I'm short on time. My daughter Gabriela is 2.5 years old and the only times I get to sew is when she's asleep. And afterwards, there's simply no time to take pictures of the clothes and blog about them. It'll all even out eventually when she will start day care. But for now, I'm forced to keep it at one blog post per few months.

So here's what I've been working on most recently, during these last couple weeks. I started with the Simplicity 8430 pattern, but modified it to make the skirt much fuller and gathered, and lowed the waistline. The result was so pleasing that I made 4 dresses with this modified pattern for Gabby, and I'll be making yet another one. All the fabrics are cotton knits that I found on fabric.com

And here are some pictures of Gabster actually wearing one of these dresses :) She loves them! They are comfortable and stylish.

I also worked on the New Look 6504 pattern. No alterations on this one. I practiced on some Tutti Fruitti fabric at first. Here's a summer dress that I whipped up. It's fully lined, btw:

But this was really just practice for what I wanted to make for Gabster for Valentine's Day. It's a corduroy pink dress with the most incredible applique that I found in the amazing Elen Mari Etsy shop. This dress is also fully lined. I chose to further decorate the applique with some ribbon, rick-rack, and I picked up special heart-shaped buttons.

Here are some more snaps of this dress and of Gabby wearing it: