The Garden Party for Easter Dress

The flower was her idea.

Spring has sprung here in the South. Everything is starting to bloom and the trees are giving it their all. As in, the pollen count is completely insane.  We don't have spring here we have "pollen season". The side benefit of this is I got to borrow my neighbor's  yard to take photos of the Easter Dress.  He's a landscape artist, which really just makes me feel worse about our lack of yard working skills.  I think, with all the trees we have, we might mow the lawn (read: weeds) about twice a summer.  My idea to rent a goat hasn't gone over that well. *sighs*  

twirly skirts are fun!

Lets jump on the rocks!!

Hmmm... I wonder if I can make that one.

Look, a rabbit hole!

 See the underskirt? That is actually last thing Mom made before she died. It made me happy that it works perfectly with this dress. :D

I think she looks like a Hula Girl here.

Time to walk home!

Felicity wore this to school for picture day. Everyone loved it, followed by a "but you should have worn a shirt under it".  Apparently they don't understand the purpose of a sun dress. Normally halters are frowned upon anyway but they let it slide. I told my daughter she can't wear the dress to school again.

The UFO Robe - Done!

From her bedroom window, I took this from the front porch.

So I started making this robe over a year ago.  I think I cut it out about the same time I did Felicity's pajamas.  Its McCall's 4646. The thing I realized after cutting out the robe is that it is HUGE. She has more than enough room to grow.  Originally I had planned on putting piping on the pockets but I didn't feel like fiddling with it at the time.  After getting it mostly stitched up, though, the pockets were near invisible.

Near invisible pockets.

So, after looking at it for a while I decided to do a blanket stitch around them with silk buttonhole thread out of the huge box of vintage thread Mom gave me a few months before everything imploded. When Felicity saw me doing this she gave me a big hug and said "I love you!". I kinda melted.

Stitching in progress.

As you can see, the one on the left was the second and much neater attempt.

 Now noticeable pockets!

Felicity picked out probably the gaudiest of buttons, which is good because anything else would have been completely lost on this print. In going through all the photos I realize this was the case cause the only picture you really notice them on is this one:

Super Pout, and buttons.

 The robe is definitely long enough. I have an inch or so for the arms and the length of the robe before she'll be too big for it. So hopefully a couple years of love.  I did "faux French seams" on the inside and of course the yoke is completely enclosed. The only thing I didn't d this on is the armhole seams but I'm going to cover those with bias tape once I get her out of the thing.

After doing this little "photo shoot" with her I've decided I need to invest in a few reflectors and a slave-flash that I can bounce off the wall for extra light.  Still, after some super cropping and some playing in photoshop I got this one photo that made me go "WOW" and want to buy a shotgun.

70's Glamour

So that's it really. Don't expect much more out of me until after the New Year. Hope you had a Happy Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and whatever else I might have missed!