Weeds

It's about that time in my life when great gobs of my friends and family are having children. I'm still not particularly interested for myself, but being crafty like I am I simply can't pass up the opportunity for cheap sewing projects. The only real problem being I don't know the exact sizes of my cousin's kids. Plus, I'm not sure if sewing sizes differ from store sizes in the infant department as well*. So I made a couple of dresses in the 6 month size to see how they went. I'm pretty sure they will fit Keith's little girl or, who knows, maybe Marcie will have a girl. Anyway, they were fun to make and only having about a yard of fabric in them, not terribly expensive. Here they are.

This one is made from a pale yellow cotton with little purple flowers, and has a mottled purple overskirt. The waist seam is accented by a purple ribbon.


This one was a little more expensive because I didn't use a cotton or broadcloth. Instead, I used this really awesome satin twill (but it was on sale so that's cool). I made the piping out of the same color ribbon that accents the waist and the bottom hem so they all match. I wished that I had a larger design to embroider on the front, but I didn't have anything else that I liked as much as the butterfly and didn't really want to buy something new.



*For those who don't know, clothing manufacturers have been changing sizes of clothes so that people will feel thinner for a long time now. Your sewing size is probably about 2 to 3 sizes larger than your clothing size. And when people throw that Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 thing around, first it's probably not true , and second if it was that would mean today she would wear a 6 or an 8.