Since M. wears his dress shirts every day and wasn't ready to get rid of any, I packed the kids up and went to the thrift store to pick up a few. Whenever I try a new project I do a practice version, and since Sophia is the smallest, she's the lucky recipient!
The fabric for the waistband is from my stash of stuff I meant to use on some project or other but never finished. Don't ask M. about that stuff. He gets grumpy when I buy materials and don't finish the project.
I spent one night figuring out how to adapt the pattern to her size, cutting out the pattern pieces and fabric. Then I did the main sewing in about an hour on one night, and the finishing with the waistband, elastic for neck and sleeves, and hem in two hours another night.
And I finished it just in time for her to wear it to church today!
Now I can't wait to make one for Lily! Here are a couple more pics of S. just because she's so darn cute. :)
3 comments:
This is positively adorable! I love it! And of course, Sophia is the perfect model! I wish I could sew...I have a brand new sewing machine in the closet for a year now and the most I've done is hem Trev's pants!!!
Holy smokes, that is so cute! I saw it on her today and had no idea you made it (see, with me, it's appparent from 20 paces when I sewed it myself, and it ain't pretty). Well done!
p.s. Tell me this idea is adaptable for grownups!
Adorable! And yet another project of yours I'd like to try.
If I can only memorize these arias first. Boo.
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