Itty Bitty Dress

I've been eyeing this dress pattern for quite some time. It looked so cute and easy and, best of all, free. I finally had an excuse to sew a tiny girl dress for a friend of my mine who is having a baby girl in a few weeks. I dug through my pink fabric, came up with some fun polka dots and strips and was finished with the dress in about 1 1/2 hours. So easy, so cute and so fun.
I made the dress reversible. I love doing this for two reasons - two dress in one and all your seams are enclosed, no annoying thread hanging down past your hem. I made the stripped skirt section longer than the dots and then folded it up and over to create the border along the bottom of the dress. I added some ric rac at the waist seam and also on the border seam.
She also has a toddler version and I can't wait to try it out for Miss K. Although from the pictures on her Flikr group, I'd make the straps shorter for the toddler dress. They look a bit too floppy for my taste, not cute little ties like in the baby dress.
Try this out, it is so easy and cute!

Swimsuit Cover-Up

We really don't spend a lot of time at the pool and since we are landlocked, not at the beach either. But, we were taking a family trip to Arizona and I knew we were be in the pool a lot. I stumbled upon some soft pink terry cloth fabric at Wal-mart for $1/yard and knew it would make a great cover-up for Miss K.
Of course, I stayed up late the night before trying to finish it. Stupid! However, it was easy. I wish my computer skills were better and I'd draw a picture to show you how I did it. Needless to say, it was easy. And Miss K loves it.
PS - I know it's silly to have Miss K cover her face in all these pictures, but I'm freaked out about the internet!

White Ruffley Skirt

I bought a cute blue and white polka-dotted shirt for Miss K last fall on clearance. She didn't have any bottoms that matched it, so I made up a white skirt on Saturday. Unfortunately, when I put the top and skirt together, they didn't look so great. But, I still love the skirt.
I made the top section with the elastic casing and then cut two rectangles for the bottom, one rectangle being longer than the other. I sewed cotton lace to the bottoms of both rectangles and then took the longer rectangle and sewed in elastic thread every six inches to create the ruffles. Then took both rectangles basted them together, gathered and sewed them to the top section. Pretty easy.
I really like how it turned out. I'm probably all kinds of stupid making a white skirt for a two year old. And even though it doesn't match the shirt I made it for, it looks really cute with a dressy t-shirt

Pink Shirt

I've decided that sewing shirts may not be worth it. They are just a bother, not nearly as much fun as skirts or dresses. Maybe I'm just not good at it. Who knows?
This is my latest attempt at sewing a shirt for Miss K. I altered a McCall's patterns and used elastic thread instead of putting in casings and then elastic. It was very full around the bottom and too short. Miss K is quite petite and she has a hard time keeping her pants up, so her shirts have to be long enough to hide the slouching pants and showing diaper. I added the bottom ruffley part with more elastic thread to help solve this problem. I think it turned out okay. I also think it's easier to buy a shirt at Target. Oh well.

Summer Skirt

A few weeks ago our family was at my parents-in-law home for our weekly Sunday visit. My 8-year-old niece was over with her family as well. She was wearing the most adorable skirt. I gushed over it so much that my sweet sister-in-law gave me the leftover fabric from her daughter's skirt. Hence, Miss K has a new summer skirt.
It was so easy to make, but I love how it turned out. The blog, Craftershours, is having a skirt contest and I'm thinking about entering this skirt. What do you think? There is nothing special about the pattern, but I think it came together so well. I also made little fabric flowers to put in Miss K's hair.

Crazy Jammies, Part 2

Diito to everything I said about Miss K's jammies. These are for Mr. E.