Friday, March 19, 2010

Sew & Tell--Layla's Easter Dress

I have some Sew & Tell this week, unlike the past few :) Surprisingly, this is the first year I've actually made Easter dresses for my girls, I usually tend to run out of time and my lovely female family members offer to buy dresses. But, I had fabric and I had a pattern, so I decided to go ahead and make them.

I was determined to use fabric I already had and not spend anything, which is always a fun challenge. I love these fabrics on Layla's. I have some fabric in the same color family that I had planned on making myself something with, but decided to use for Natalie's Easter dress. For Layla's I used McCall's 5835, which was great, but the yolk ended up being way to low (surprise, surprise) so I added that little panel with the ruffle behind it and I think it looks even cuter :)

So, for Natalie's dress, I was not feeling any of the patterns I had on hand (a lot of them end at size 4 and she's a 5 now!) so I went on to Etsy and could not believe all the awesome pdf patterns that are available there!!! I went with this one....

It's the Miss Lily Dress from Little Dresses. Adorable. I wanted a bubble hem dress and this one's perfect, since there's no zipper :) I also really love the patterns at KustomKidsBoutique. Really amazing things.

Then, what I'm especially excited about is this crazy-cute hat pattern I ordered from Clotilde recently. I'd been looking for a newsboy hat pattern for Kelby and this one has boy and girl hats from age newborn to adult, so I know I'll get a ton of use out of it. I'm making hats to match each of the girls' dresses and I have some orange tweed in my stash that I want to make Kelby a hat and bow tie out of. I can't wait! Now I want to finish this post and get to sewing :) It's a good day for it here in Colorado, since it's blowing snow after a week of realllly nice weather. *sigh*


17 comments:

  1. Love those patterns, they are both on my pattern wishlist. Your little dress looks great, and the little neck panel is super cute, great idea!

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  2. The yellow dress turned out lovely and I love the second pattern!

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  3. I love the dress! The ruffle you added is so cute. I can't wait to see your other projects :)

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  4. So many really cute things. Love the first dress (colur and design). I wish i had the skills to just whip up kids clothes. Thanks for sharing all the gorgeousness.

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  5. These are darling dresses and cute little girls! I love sewing little girl dresses, but don't have any little girls to sew for ... oh well! Quilting makes up for it!

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  6. Cute dress! I am making Easter dresses this year as well, but I haven't even started yet. Yikes!

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  7. ah...carrying on the family tradition of "just add a ruffle..." :D Good job on all!

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  8. OMGosh! Love the dress!

    I am so in love with that fabric! I had the tiniest bit of it I got as a remnant at Joann's and tried and tried to find more of it. One of these days LOL!!

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  9. The little dress is cute, cute, cute! I love the addition of the ruffle.

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  10. Thanks for the tips on the patterns. For all my online quilting info, I never thought of pdf clothing patterns...well, duh! Great girly dresses.
    Beautiful children!!

    Blessings,
    KT

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  12. The dresses are gorgeous!!! So perfect for Easter!

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  13. adorable. i sure wish i had little girls to sew for!

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  14. Great dress you made for you daughter! Thanks for sharing.

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  15. get out of here! I love all of these! The polka dot might be my favorite! I just bought a pattern to make my size 4 a dress yesterday! Can't wait! I'm going to have to check out that little dresses site.

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