Fairy house dress

Here's a fairy house dress for my 8 month old Susanna!

susanna leigh is in the house

introducing the little pea I was sewing for all this time.....

some fun things I made today

I cut off a 9 month onesie bottom, hemmed it, then sewed on the milkman patch. The other 2 are newborn tees that needed some pizazz.

fooling around with photo app

pants & pinafore sets

These go up to 18 months, and are reversible. Very roomy in the pants, to go over a cloth diaper if needed. These are very fun to make. It takes 1 yard of fabric to make a small pinafore and matching pants, using the entire yard.

owl dress with bloomers

Hoot

happy hills dress

2-4T reversible pinafore with snaps. Happy hills on main side, birdies on reverse. I made matching pants to go with it.

matching shirred summer dresses

2T & 4T matching dresses!

washing instructions

a quick note on the best way to wash and dry these dresses, in order to avoid having to iron them, and so that the elastic (if there is any in your dress) lives a longer life.
Wash normally, then hang on the line or a hanger or over the back of a chair to dry.  They dry super fast!  If you smooth the fabric out with your hands while wet, straight out of the washer, there will be no wrinkles.  If there is elastic thread in your dress, then yes, someday, like all elastic in any clothing, it will die (become unstretchy).  So, put this death off, by not drying the dress in the dryer.  Elastic + dryer=very sad.
So that is it!
In short: hang dry your stuff after smoothing it with your hand.  yay!

Matching pinafores

2T & 4T, matching dresses for my friend's daughters. Came out really nicely!!

henna baby girl

This is my full belly.  Full of baby girl.  She will be here in 2 weeks....unless she comes in 3 or four, or tomorrow.   So, I colored her.

lots of yellow

Little shirred summer dresses. These fit 1-4 T because they are stretchy with adjustable tie straps.

patchwork pinafore

Waiting on new fabric again, so using up remnants. This one came out well.

rosie dress

Yellow and blue dress. This one is so cheerful. Different patterns on front and back.

nature girl shirred dress

Leaves and more leaves. Stretchy, shirred bodice, adjustable shoulder straps, and can also be a skirt for an older nature girl. This one came out really well. Probably because I made it over coffee and conversation with an old friend. Thanks Red!
Just listed it this morning:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/102857114/dress-for-baby-girl-stretchy-shirred#

meet the gang pinafore

Reversible: one side is Amy Butler fabric. The other, "meet the gang."they don't match and I adore them both. Fits 6-18 months or older. Just listed: https://www.etsy.com/listing/102815366/dress-for-baby-girl-reversible-pinafore