Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Sewing for Kate

When Cindy Lynn was little I used to make most of her clothes.  I loved doing that, and it just wasn’t just as much fun to sew for Jason and Josh when they came along.  I always longed for another little girl—a sister for Cindy Lynn and another girl to sew for.  Well as you know I got that little girl(s)…and for many years had NO energy to sew for them at all!  When I did start sewing for them I didn’t have the same kind of time that I’d had with Cindy Lynn—I knew my sewing was more special occasion than every day.  One of the things I realized that I really loved to sew was holiday dresses using seasonal fabric.  Now we have Kate and once again I’m excited to sew for a little girl.  Here’s what I’ve done so far:

The Blessing Dress

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special effects: the smocking.  time consuming but fun!

Halloween

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special effects: contrasting band at bottom—couldn’t decide for the longest time but I think it worked.

Christmas (made without a good pattern, so hopefully will also fit her next year!)

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special effects: Jenna & I had found this fun green Christmas fabric before Kate was even born and I have been so excited to use it.  I paired it with a red and white stripe to match the candy canes in the green fabric and with a a little bit of a red dotted fabric.  I also made piping of the striped fabric and used that in the bodice around the neck and armholes.  I really do hope this fits next year because I love it!

Valentines

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special effects: I was excited to find this fun heart fabric—it felt like valentines but the colors and busyness was unusual.  I decided that I wanted to experiment with making a bias binding to put around the neck and arms this time.  I have a little tool to make bias tape that I’d never used before—that worked really well.  I had a hard time picking the purple to use for this but I was really happy with the one I ultimately picked.  While I was at the fabric store I had seen this cute pink checked knit and I decided that it was a fun match for leggings. Then I decided that I wanted to put an applique on the skirt of the dress—a big purple heart and a smaller heart of the legging fabric.  I thought the whole thing turned out fun!

 

So there you go.  10 months of happy sewing for Kate, and hopefully years to come!

4 comments:

  1. I love them all!!!!! And I'm 100% sure the Christmas dress will fit next year. It just might need some leggings if she shoots up really tall.

    And I seriously love that blessing dress so much! I was looking at a bunch of my pics of it the other day. It was so beautiful.

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  2. Darling! All of them... & of course the model, too. ;) I'm already picturing a future quilt made with remnants of these fun fabrics. :) I like how you pointed out the special effects to those of us who may not be observant enough to catch them at first glance, too.

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  3. My favorite is the valentine dress... Love, love, love those colors!

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  4. I think it is special that you have time now and love to create these special dresses. Keep it up!

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