Casual Princess: Snow White

My baby girl turned 3 yesterday! She is just starting to love fairytales and princesses. Next year we are going to Disneyland with our in-laws and I thought maybe some dressup clothes were in order that could do double-duty for visiting there too.

Little Snow White

I started with the Sweet Little Dress pattern, in size 3. I appliqued the oval-ish shapes on the sleeves and added a ruffle at the cuff, cut the body pattern into a waist-length bodice, and added a gathered skirt. The gathered eyelet lace is sewn in at the hem to look like a petticoat. The fabrics are all mid-weight cottons.

Abigail was eager to wear her "pincess" dress as soon as she got up this morning and became really excited about this prop - she had a great time parading around the yard with her apple!

A little rick-rack and a headband with a bow finish the outfit to look similar to the classic Disney Snow White. I decided to skip the high white collar and the cape, for now at least.

Helping mama with the housework this morning

Sewing for Pregnancy Care Centre

So the first things for Fenna's sew-along for Pregnancy Care Centres are done!

Details

Pattern: Sweet Little Dress by Leila & Ben
Fabrics: cotton coordinates
Size: 3-6 month

Details

Pattern: Sweet Little Dress by Leila & Ben
Fabrics: cotton prints from my friend Shannon (thanks, Shan, they are all getting good use!)
Size: 3-6 month

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Pattern: Free Little Geranium Dress by Made by Rae
Fabric: Daisy Kingdom coordinates leftover from this project
Size: 0-3 month
Mods: Added a simple bow belt to the waist, left off the pockets.

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Pattern: Free Timmy & Mary Sunsuit by Mommy's Apron Strings
Fabric: dotted swiss coordinates
Size: 6 months
Mods: Added cased elastic to the leg holes as they seemed a little gapey. I cut two lengths of elastic a few inches shorter than the leg opening, tacked them to the seam allowance at the crotch opening of each leg, then when I flipped it right side out, I sewed a casing for each elastic.

Details
Pattern: Inside or Out Pocket Pants by Fishsticks Designs
Fabrics: flames seersucker, cotton screen-print for trim
Size: 6 months



Next up:  Planning what to sew from this lovely stack FatQuarterShop generously sent our way for this sew-along! Couple of quilts, some dresses, a few baby button-up shirts...

Mod Dots Pleated Dress

pattern: Pleated Dress by Leila & Ben
size: 12months
materials: cotton blend outer, quilting cotton lining, poly resin snaps, purchased piping

Sorry for the blur - she never stops moving!

Fun pattern, once again! The fabric is leftover from my sewing room curtains. It has a fault every so often - the pocket and the tag are covering the two that were on this length of fabric!  The piping was a bear to get in nicely... I could not figure out how to do square inside corners without having it bench out. Oh, well...  Buttonholes refused to work evenly on this because of the bulk of the piped edge, so I did snaps instead. Abigail is in size 1T or 18mo now, so I'd say this pattern fits a little on the large size.