freshcut

I'm easing back into sewing over here- there's a pile of things I'd like to make for myself, mostly from the January BWOF and the Knipmodes I bought at the beginning of the month- AND from February's BWOF (only seen the line drawings so far, sadly). However, I had two little girls who fell in love with the Freshcut prints I'd gotten from Fabritopia, so I tackled those first.

Kate picked out these two prints by herself. They're very "Kate" since she loves wild colors together. I used the bodice front and back, and the skirt from Simplicity 3588 (the girl's Duro dress and a mandarin collar dress). The sleeve pattern came from some stray size 5 vintage girls sleeve pattern that I found under my cutting table. Yeah, I'm that organized, stray sleeve patterns just lying around waiting to be plucked into action... I should really find its parent pattern envelope! I think the collar might be from a vintage Simplicity 7667. Maybe.


And here she is modeling it with a grumpy face:


And here is Ana's dress, from the standard bodice front & back & sleeve I've been using for her for two years. I'm going to be in trouble if she ever starts to grow:


I L O V E the colors in the dress. So much. I've saved the scraps, and they'll be worked into a few squares of my never-ending mendicino quilt. The waistband ribbon for this dress is from MJ Trim, and I used ladybug buttons on the back:



My sewing machine has a decorative stitch that resembled the vines in the bodice print, so I did that in blue around the neckline:



My sweetpea in her new dress:






I have a nice sewing (and kid wrangling!) vacation coming up this month- Feb 7 through Feb 12. I'm hoping the Feb BWOF will be on newsstands in the city by then, because I'm hoping to make these over that break:

02-2009-118 top -love the yoke front and the bubble sleeves.

02-2009-130 wrap blouse -similar sleeves again, but I love the wrap front here too.