Belated Birthday Dress

Dreadful pseudo aunty that I am, my smallest pseudo neice got her brithday present late this year.  Oops?

How pretty did this turn out?  I love the dark orange and white together.

I'm reliably informed that this will be the perfect base of small's festival fox outfit this summer!

Tiny Ballet Costumes

I've made a few more outfits for my ballet school's Christmas production!

Here is Lizard, kindly modelling them for me!  She doesn't actually get to wear these on Show Day, but she's definitely enjoyed checking on my progress as I sew!

The dress is a modified version of this dress, I drafted my own sleeve pattern and added extra fabric at the sides.

It does up in a cute bow at the back and has elastic gathering the sleeves!

The shorts are this pattern and I've used buttonhole elastic for the waistbands to make them as adjustable as possible.  The original shorts I based this off have elastic gathering the short legs in, but whilst I've left a small gap in the seams in case that's a neccesity, I have currently left them ungathered as I think these look sweeter! 

In case you are wondering, Lizard is doing her best ballet moves here, hence the blurriness of all the photos!

Ballet Costumes

My Ballet school is having a show in December and I have done my bit by helping to make some of the costumes!

We made three of these pleated waistband chiffon skirts.

They have a stage satin waistband and poppers to close them.

 I can't model them for you as they are far, far too small for me!

Also, chiffon takes a lot of hemming!  Those skirts have 27 metres of hem between them!

Chemise

I've been sewing for people off to the Convention of Thorns in October!

Made my awesome friend Harry a white cotton chemise.  The pattern is my own!

 The sleeves have a satin bias binding channel at the wrist, which has been elasticated and then a long cuff.

The neck is gathered with a satin ribbon drawstring.

 Silly pics to round us off!

Cheshire Cat Inspiration Dress

I love Alice in Wonderland and in the summer I am hoping to have a very special Alice project to show you.  But for now, let me show you this Cheshire Cat inspired dress I made for a friend's Christmas gift.

It's a mash up of Alabama Chanin patterns and all the seams are on the outside on purpose.  I used pink and purple t-shirting and I really enjoyed making this!

I am now wondering about making a stripey dress for me!