2 For Her, 1 For Me

Last Friday while Evan was at a friend's house, Flynn and I went to Hobby Lobby where she spied (and fell in love with) two fabrics; one had a cartoony print of the states and the other had a print of bowling pins and balls with the words "retro bowl".

My daughter is the queen of the "neck dress" (what she calls a halter dress), so I thought those two fabrics would make cute dresses.

Saturday after we came home from the movie I whipped up one of the dresses. I made the other one today while the kids were at karate camp. The pattern, a Simplicity, was very easy and the whole thing took about an hour or so, except that even though I cut a size 3, the "states" dress was still too big in the back and I had to take it in (with the "bowling" dress I just reduced length of elastic by 2 inches).

This is what the back looks like:

The red at the bottom is leftover quilt binding that I added instead of hemming. It adds a little sump'n sump'n. I think all she needs now is a chiffon scarf and cat-eye glasses and she'll be super-stylin'.Then I made a pair of jammies for me. I swear I had to cut off over a foot of the pattern just to make pants for myself (I don't know who Simplicity thinks uses their patterns - possibly Amazons or giants). I used a knit fabric that is blue with brown polka dots (I don't know if you can tell it's brown in the pix). The top is a brown Old Navy tank on which I sewed a handmade applique .Next up: dino pajamas for both the kids, then the quilt for Evan's bed, then I might put the machine away for a while.