So after spending the week cleaning our condo to have friends over for our small group (very small, two couples, if you are looking for a small group come join), I decided I wanted to mess it up again. Well really I just wanted to make something, so I pulled out all of my sewing stuff and made a dress ...and a mess. I had a few really cute fat quarters that my grandma-in-law gave me and wanted to make something with them and didn't know if I had enough for a dress. Then I had a book of very cute little patterns that I wanted to make, but they only had sizes 18 months and older, and they all took almost 2 yards of fabric which I didn't have. So....I chucked the book and gave it a shot making the dress without a pattern. I measured Lilly around the chest and it was 18 inches. I guestimated based on the sizes that the 18 month and 24 month measurements were and added a couple of inches for a 20 inch chest measurement in hopes that this would be the size she would wear in April. It seems to fit the measurements I found on her 12 month clothing. Then I basically cut rectangles...2 skirts, and 2 tops, and then a strip, sewed it together and voila...a dress.
It really wasn't too hard, and I want to make more for my shop...I just need to figure out real sizes for people who, when they purchase something, want real sizes...not just o well it might fit in a few months, :) So needless to say my husband said my sewing takes over the whole house, and my resolution to the problem...buy a bigger house, one with more rooms...not just for another kid in the future, but for a sewing room. A girl can dream... right?
ps I will not show a picture of my messy house :)
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