Gowyn's Dress

My second daughter, who we call Gowyn has been in love with Cinderella since she was 3 1/2.

She loved Pooh Bear when she was a baby and then when she was three,

she saw Cinderella and she was done for.

She is now 10, one would think that she would be over it by now, but no.

Her favorite color is blue with green and purple as alternates, because they have blue in them.



Anything that is clear is called glass slipper.

Clear picnic silver wear is called glass slipper fork.

This is the problem I faced.
  I went to the Joann's and once again they did not have color I had in mind,
 light blue satin.

I settled on periwinkle, I know what you are thinking,

it is close to blue almost purple she should be OK with that.

If you knew her, you would know this just will not due.

When I started cleaning my sewing room I found left over satin from when she was four and she was Cinderella in her blue ballgown.

That is when I decided to use that instead of the periwinkle.
Don't worry the lime green and periwinkle are going to a new home here shortly.

 So with out further ado, or confusion I give you Gowyn's blue dress.

It hits her just below her knee.

Even though it has a bow in the back I still think it is a good big girl dress.

When I said the dresses were wearable but not done Gowyn's dress didn't have these flowers yet.

I really think they make the dress.

Look how cute they are with the beads in the center.

The beads were my grandmothers, even though they are just plastic beads

they are special because they are hers.

For good measure glass slipper buttons.

I sewed a petty skirt in it to poof a little and it is perfect.

I will be back with the tute on those flowers I promise.

I was thinking of calling this Ring Around the Rosies Dress
What do you think?

Field of Poppies Dress

I am in  hurry to get my sister in law from the airport.

She is coming in town for woman's conference, and I know that once her family gets a hold of her they are not going to let her go, so I am going to kidnap her at the airport and take her to lunch with my sisters.

I said I would post this today and so I am doing it really quick so wish me luck.

At the end of February Joann had it's Casa collection on sale so I went to get the fabric for the girls dresses.

They did not have orange.

This may seam strange to some of you that I would want orange of an Easter dress, but it is Baby Sister's favorite color.

I was at a loss as what to do so I went with pale green, I knew this would be a problem, but really I had no choice in the matter.

Than two weeks ago Joann was having another sale and this time it was a better deal.

I did not go there for satin but when I walked by I saw that they had spring colors, and not only did they have orange they also had coral.

 The orange was a bit harsh compared to the other girls colors so we went with coral.

I originally was going to make two tulip dresses but after the first one, there was no way I was going to do that again.

I used the same bodice pattern as Lala's, and did a simple two layered, petty skirt lined skirt.

The petty skirt is a light orange color because baby sister didn't believe me that coral was the same as orange, now when it is turned inside out it looks like sherbet.

It was looking pretty simple so I added about forty flowers.

So here you have it for your viewing pleasure...

THE FIELD OF POPPIES DRESS

How stinking cute is that?

Of course the big bow in the back.

Super cute tulip sleeve.

A close up of the flowers.

I attached each flower with these little beads.

Good looking said "Of course it needs beads, how else are the bees going to eat?"

He can be such a dork.

Well there you go I am now off to the airport, I hope you have a great day.

Also, are you going to need a tutorial on these flowers too?

Lala's Tulip Dress

Do you remember this picture?

It is from when I cleaned my sewing room.

I explained that the pile of satins was magically going to transform onto Easter dresses.

It did !

I stayed up until 2:45am and then got up at seven to make Baubi's skirt.

I wish I could say they were all finished, but like I just said...

I wish.

Gowyn's dress and Baubi's skirt still need flowers, so until then I will show you Lala's

I called it the tulip dress.

See how the skirt crosses in the front to look like an upside down tulip.

How can you have an Easter dress with out a big ol' bow in the back?

I can't, I have tried and it is just not the same.

I even made the sleeves look like tulips.

The finishing touch was this giant flower,

it looks more like a chrysanthemum than a tulip.

I figure a flower dress is a flower dress.

She was so excited about this dress she would come up and pet it.

She could hardly wait for Sunday to come.

We are going to take pictures of their bodies in their dresses later this week,

the weather is suppose to be better by then.

I will be sure to show you again, with an actual body inside.



Let me know if you want a tutorial on the flower.

Tomorrow Baby sister's dress.