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!

Snowflake Ballerina Dress

When possible I like to accomodate the pseudo-nieces tastes and requests (I maintain Aunties are their to fill your life with sparkly stuff) and so I was very pleased to be able to make a snowflake 'ballerina' dress!

It's blue satin, with a snowflake printed organza overlaid on the skirt.  It has a snowflake printed ribbon waistband and a silver ribbon trim.

 I really enjoyed making this and I think another couple might be made for other similarly inclined small ones!

Christmas Party Dress

I made a few versions of these, for the various pseudo-neices as Christmas gifts!  I am loving the read, gold and cream colour combination.

This one has a red taffeta bodice and a cream taffeta skirt, gold satin ribbon waist sash and red plastic buttons with little sparkles in them.

I'm so pleased with how they turned out!

Mouse Hoodie!

I made another hoodie, the sister of the dino hoodie!

This onw is grey fleece and grey t-shirting and I added tiny pink and grey mouse ears to the hood!

And of course, a teeny tiny mouse embroidery!

Dino Hoodie

I made some small adorable gifts and I love this hoodie so much!

It's green fleece with grey t-shirting for the ribbing and a little embroidered dino patch!

And of course, dino spikes all down the back!

I hope the recipient likes it as much as I do and don't worry, a grown up size one is in the works!

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!

Baby Blanket

Ok, I was away for a bit longer than intended, but ah well!  I've been out and about enjoying summer adventures rather than sewing!

My cousin has recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world so I sent a little present!

I do like making baby quilts!  This is a cheery full on number, which will hopefully be of some use to my cousin in her new journey as a mama!

Welcome tot he world little one, I can't wait to meet you!

My Little Pony Dress

When you know someone who loves MLP and has a birthday, well...  A Pony Party Frock is clearly the perfect gift!

 I paired the pony fabric with a purple cotton and added white buttons and a purple satin ribbon!

Lizard's First Stitches!

Well...  She has crafting parents and me as one of her godmothers.  What did you expect?!

She also did some 'sewing' for her Mama's birthday!

I hope she grows up with a love of sewing and respect for those who handmake things!

Small Person Dress Up - Wings and Lion

Apologies, I don't have many photos of these.  I was working up to a deadline and I forgot to snap pics in my hurry to be done!

First up, I made a set of wings for a dress up set for a little one who loves birds.  They are a fleece base and I cut out oval shapes to make wings and layered them up.  I made elastic straps on the other side for Littley to pop her wings on.

This is a tabard, made of gold crushed velvet.  It has a hood with fur trim and little tiny ears and a long tail so Littley can be a lion.

Little Dress Up Outfit - Ana

Another Christmas make!  We've still got a few to go round here!

After the success of the Elsa birthday gift I knew Ana had to be the follow up!  The top is velvet with lycra sleeves and the skirt is polycotton.

As you can see, I made an attempt at fabric painting!  It worked well  on the skirt but less well on the bodice.

I made the fastenings velcro and it has a cotton ribbon tie.

It has been very well received and I am assured there's no abatement in the Frozen fever at the house of it's owner!