I sat with a pencil and some paper on friday night and I drew my idea of a pretty dress. I then took some newspaper and started cutting until it looked about right as a standard pinnafore. then I tarted cutting it up to add touches like the white fabric inserts and the separate skirt. once the paper looked good, I started on the fabric.
It's been difficult 'cos I've modified it here and there, but on the whole I like it. it sill needs a hook and eye clasp at the top of the zipper.
soph's pleased.
front
back
one the dress was partially made it seemed too plain. not nearly frilly enough. Having at my disposal a large chunk of very wide lace, and a small lot of hand-made lace I decided to lace it up a bit. mmmm frills.
I folded 1/3 of the horizontal length of the wide lace over so it made a double frill. I sewed this onto the back of the bias-bound hem. over the top of the hem I sewed the hand made lace. I've done it in such a way that should I choose not to sell the dress when soph's outgrown it, I can remove the hand made lace and reuse it lol!!!
the top layer of lace lifted to reveal my home-made bias binding (I'm so fricking pleased with that!!)
the zipper was fitted by hand as I couldn't find my zipperfoot for the machine. I'm sure it's in my sewing box, bbut I wasnt in the mood to look for it last night.
see? happy two year old.
edited cos of a spelling mistake.
