A crafty weekend!

What a fun Saturday I had! I got to spend about six hours in my sewing/craft room, all alone, no kids, and was able to craft two more dresses for the Lil Blue Boo/Dharma Trading Design Challenge.

I have to confess, I "Charlene-d" the Sienna pattern a little bit. Instead of making the middle part of the dress long and straight, I gathered it right below the bodice part. But, that's the fun thing about this pattern - it can be changed up quite a bit. How fun!

The first one I did, I used a patterned cotton jersey material from a dress I used to wear a few years ago:

I have to say, I think it's cuter on my daughter than it was on me!


I appliqued the fish and the flower on the bodice before I put the dress together. I kinda forgot about scale, and probably should have only put on two fish and one flower, but it can't be taken apart now, so it's staying the way it is.



I also put a fish on the back of the dress, just for fun!

Then, after the dress was complete, I decided to make a matching headband, since Lexi's bangs are beginning to grow very long!


Here it is on my daughter:











































While I was on a roll, I made the dress I've been DYING (ha-ha) to make, ever since I found out about this challenge:



And, here it is on the kid:


























I used a tee shirt I tie dyed for myself, when Braden and his friend tie dyed shirts for their first day of school. I didn't like it for myself (not enough dye used), so I threw it in the back of my clothing drawer, until now. Again, I think it looks better on Alexia than it does on me!

The bottom part of the dress is a re-purposed rayon sarong. Fun, fun!








And, just so you don't think my kid is a perfect photography model, here's some "outtakes" from our photography session:




She was in an onery mood, and I think it shows!