I did it!

This girl:

is spoiled!
Her brother never got the benefit of my sewing experience!

I was poking around on the blogs I like to blurk on. Found the cutest dress pattern for sale on http://lilblueboo.blogspot.com/. I bought it (Sienna dress, sizes 12 mos to 6, score!) It's such an easy pattern, and comes with lots of tips for working with t-shirt jersey. I sat down last night with a few old t-shirts and crafted this:

This rose is my own contribution to the basic pattern. As you can probably deduce, I'm still working on getting it to be more "rose like". I also added a little bit of fancy topstitching along the bodice/skirt division.
I got the dress completed, brought it downstairs to try on my daughter. Daddy thought it was too short, so I added a ruffle on the bottom. Instead of attaching it to the inside of the dress, I tried to be crafty and put it on the outside, to get that "messy, shabby" look.
I have never worked with t-shirt jersey material before. I thought it turned out pretty well, considering I didn't have a knit needle in my machine, just a quilting needle that probably needs to be changed.
Here's my willing model wearing it:
Do you think she likes it?
Yeah, me too.

Guess I'll be on the lookout for interesting t-shirts for awhile, to craft her some more cute dresses...

Oh, and I'll be entering my creations in the Lil Blue Boo/Dharma Trading Design Challenge:



Next up is a dress I've been thinking about for the past few days, a little more wild and crazy. I'll post pictures when I get it done!

:)