Little Dress
Nov. 28th, 2010 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabeth_mnI love making everyday clothes, but I wanted to do something just a little dressy for a holiday party this weekend.
I bought the brown/pink corduroy dot fabric a while ago specifically to make a dress to coordinate with the patterned tights (cutest tights ever!) which we got free from a friend in a big bag of old baby clothes. I didn’t end up having enough corduroy for a whole dress, though, so I paired it with a scrap of printed cotton from the stash.
Trying to figure out what this whole dress thing is.
The corduroy skirt has six pleats in the center in front and back. Actually, if they are stitched down, does that make it a tuck, or is it still a pleat? Anyway, they are cute. Two buttons in back. Two pockets made of scraps. I lined the bodice with pieces of an old sheet.
This went pretty quick, just a couple hours all together, and it turned out so well! It’s a little roomy, but it’s easier to get a non-stretchy woven on and off if it is looser.
Now that F is walking, I am seeing more dresses in our future. They really don’t make sense for a crawling baby, but she’s really moving with the walking thing lately.
I bought the brown/pink corduroy dot fabric a while ago specifically to make a dress to coordinate with the patterned tights (cutest tights ever!) which we got free from a friend in a big bag of old baby clothes. I didn’t end up having enough corduroy for a whole dress, though, so I paired it with a scrap of printed cotton from the stash.
Trying to figure out what this whole dress thing is.
The corduroy skirt has six pleats in the center in front and back. Actually, if they are stitched down, does that make it a tuck, or is it still a pleat? Anyway, they are cute. Two buttons in back. Two pockets made of scraps. I lined the bodice with pieces of an old sheet.
This went pretty quick, just a couple hours all together, and it turned out so well! It’s a little roomy, but it’s easier to get a non-stretchy woven on and off if it is looser.
Now that F is walking, I am seeing more dresses in our future. They really don’t make sense for a crawling baby, but she’s really moving with the walking thing lately.
