Ry-pie's Thanksgiving dress

I wanted to make Ry-pie a dress to wear on Thanksgiving. I had some cute brown with pink polka-dotted corduroy that I was going to use. I started her dress by just winging it. No pattern. No instructions. Just me, my scissors (rotary cutter) and imagination. Well my imagination went a little haywire. I think I got a little too "cutter" happy, and cut too much. I needed more fabric!

So what do I do? I head out - the night before Thanksgiving, to the fabric store to get more of that brown with pink polka-dotted corduroy. Guess what? They didn't have anymore of that corduroy! CRAP!

What to do now? I didn't really like any of the other corduroy they had, that is until I saw this adorable little owl printed corduroy!!! Jackpot!

I wasn't feeling as adventurous after getting home, so I decided to try and find a cute pattern online. The gals at Prudent Baby to the rescue! I used their snappy toddler top pattern, just adding length to make it a dress and using buttons in the place of snaps.

A little flower and some pom-pom trimming. A super cute dress for Thanksgiving....or any other time.

Come back tomorrow for the tutorial on the fabric hair flare!

Pillow-case dress

As much as I love to sew, I've yet to venture into the clothes-making department. I bought a couple of patterns awhile back and never even made an attempt at them. I'm not that confident a sewer I guess - and I was totally intimidated. Until......THIS tutorial, from the amazing gals over at Prudent Baby.

I changed it up by using the version shownhere. Instead of ribbon, they used bias-tape. And after all the head wraps I've made, I'm a lean, mean, bias-tape making machine. They actually sell bias-tape-making-machines....oh, I should get one! But I digress.

Here is the pillow case dress (that's not even close to being made from a pillow-case), and oh so cute!!!!




That's right, baby got back! lol.


And of course I had to make the matching hair flair. That's just how I roll!!