Tuesday, October 12, 2010

My First Attempt at Sewing a Little Girl's Dress

Tonight I decided I needed to try to use up all of my fabric that I have before I go out and purchase anything new. I was asked if I was interested in a craft fair coming up at the end of October and I think I may give it a try. It may tell me what's hot and what's not! :) Here is all of the fabric I need to get creative with! I have used all of the patterns so far, this is just leftover fabric.


I wanted to try to make a little girls dress.


This is the dress from Kohl's that I already had that I used for the pattern. *I did not make the green dress! I hope to get there someday!


While I was sewing, I almost sewed up the arm holes and neck hole, just because I'm so used to turning pillows and bags inside out. Luckily I caught myself before I did it. Here is what it looked like.


Then I had decided to try it on my daughter and realized I had forgotten to sew the seams on the arms, the neck, and the bottom. I had only sewed up the sides, so I had to go back and fix my mistake. You can see the straps are much skinnier now, and next time I hope that they are a little more rounded, like in the photo above.


It can be a summer dress or you can put a long sleeve shirt under it for the fall/winter, like I did below.


And, here is my little girl throwing a fit after Mommy made her try it on!!! She was not very happy with me!


8 comments:

  1. the picture of your daughter is great! made me laugh out loud. great job on your first dress!

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  2. Looks great, especially for your first attempt!

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  3. Very cute! Nice job. I'm just popping in from Welcome Wednesday and am now following your lovely blog. Stop by when you get a chance!
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  4. Isn't that just like a girl?!!! Seriously, congratulations on your first dress!!! I think you did a great job! I have 4 girls and I remember the days of making dress after dress for them.
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  5. Hi, Very Cute!!! You did a nice job!

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  6. GREAT job! I'm now following you! Keep the great projects coming!

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