A New Frontier

Clothing! It has always intimidated me to sew clothing... bags are one thing, but it takes much more skill to make something that will fit a person and look cute. I have somewhat been avoiding this, but I figured it was time to buck up and make Lizzie a dress. I chose a VERY simple pattern and jazzed it up a bit with a contrasting band on the bottom, a ribbon and contrasting bias tape. Just to make it a bit more difficult on myself, I lined the whole thing too :)



I used an 18 month dress of Lizzie's to get the general dimensions, and it worked... it'll probably fit her in 6 months :) The good news is that this will easily convert to a toddler top as she gets older. As you can see, I was so proud of my new creation that I whipped out my best camera... oh wait, no... I took cruddy pics with my iPhone. Well, you get the idea at least :) I was going to wait til I had better pictures to post, but I had nothing else to write about, so here you go!

So this project made a lot of firsts for me

1) First time sewing clothing

2) First fully lined dress

3) First time making my own bias tape