Miss P has a new dress and she calls it her "Blue Garden Dress".
The fabric, from Jennifer's Happy Land line, was leftover from the backing of one of the quilts I made for her. Miss P loves the fabric so we zipped out a dress this week. She chose the pattern from my vintage collection.
She likes that it is pretty enough for "fancy" wear but also looks great with jeans. Since it was SNOWING yesterday and warm weather seems to be taking its time this year we need some dresses that look good paired with pants. Miss P doesn't like to have "freezy legs" on the playground at recess and I don't blame her. I love her practical style.It is also a great dress for playhouse time.
I used an old Simplicity 6764 pattern but instead of using a facing, I lined the bodice for a more "finished" inside.
I love that these old patterns never seem to go out of style.
Wordless Wednesday
Happy Drawing Tops
When these Happy Drawing fabrics arrived from Cloud9 I could hardly wait to cut into them. Michelle said she wanted three tops the same size from the same pattern. This vintage Simplicity pattern from my collection was perfect to show off these great fabrics.
P helped me go through some buttons jars to find buttons to suit each fabric. We found some gray leather ones for the elephant fabric, the perfect green for the owls and some white balls that reminded me of eyes for the frogs.
I guess it's a good thing these are too small for miss P or we wouldn't want to mail them to Michelle.
We do, however, have a few scraps of each fabric to play with.
