Homemade Moments: Little Girl Dress

Homemade Dress-Up and Sister Tickling

I made a dress for my littlest daughter.  I wanted to take pictures of her in it.  She happily donned the dress and started posing pleasantly enough, but. Something someone said somehow set her off, and the photo shoot turned into a pout session/tickle fest.  Eventually, after snuggling and serving a nice snack, I snapped sweet shots of my sugar darlin in her homemade dress….though I seriously don’t regret the photos of her in her moment (I love them all, actually).    I promised I’d share more of these images, along with a pictorial tutorial of the outfit…

Here’s More In-the-Moment stuff: Sister Tickling.

Darling and delicious.

And the outfit’s not too bad either.

  Here is a Pictorial Tutorial of the sweater and dress refashion.

The ruffled skirt came from an abandoned summer dress:

Ruffles for the Skirt.

Waistband for the Skirt:

The top came from a thrifted sweater (not counting the collar, which came from the abandoned dress):

I used one of my daughter’s long tops as a template to make a pattern for the top:

I used scraps to cut out sleeves (having used my daughter’s top to make the pattern):

I made a collar from a strip of fabric from the old dress:

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