Anyways, these cocoon dresses were the reasons why I signed up to The Sew What Club. The pattern is drafted by the famous and ever cool Groovybabyandmama. And who doesn't crave just a bit of Trine's effortless style? As you see, I do - I even used the same fabric as Trine, since I already had the grey terry in my stash. I'm such a pathetic fangirl!
I guess effortless photography is not a thing around our house. These were the best photos of hundreds.. Sigrid never misses an opportunity of making funny faces.
Here you get a better glimpse of the pattern. The patterns features a simple cocoon shape, elbowlength sleeves and shoulder ruffle. The dress hemline is shorter in the front.
I made a few changes to the pattern:
- lengthend the sleeves to 3/4 length
- finished the grey dress with ribbing in the neckline, since the neckline was a bit big for Sigrid.
- finished the shoulder ruffle on the grey dress with my overlocker
- made the shoulder ruffle of the blue dress in double layer, since the fabric I was using was white on the backside. This makes the ruffle a bit stiffer
- For the blue version I used a cotton jersey instead of the recommended heavier fabric.
It took me about 1,5 hour to make a dress like these. If you leave out the shoulder ruffle you could make it even quicker. I'm sure this will be my go to pattern for everyday dresses for my girls. I'm a bit hesitant to use too much time on childrens clothes since their span of life is often so short. The children grow and they wear their clothes hard.
I have one more girls dress coming up. I'm working on a shirtdress for Selma in a lovely Atelie Brunette Cotton. I bought the cotton to make a shirtdress for me, but she pursuaded me to make it for her instead... I must teach her to sew her own soon!
How about you - are you hesitant using time on childrens clothes?
Happy sewing
Mette
Hvor er de fine dine modeller både dem i stof og pigerne :-) Jeg kender kun for godt det umulige i at få et godt billede af alle. Hvis bare man kunne klippe klistrer! Så lukker en øjnene, på det næste sætter en et tosset ansigt op, osv!
SvarSletJeg bruger til tider lidt for meget tid på deres tøj, for jeg blir så ør over det, at de næsten ikke får lov at gå i det. Så for det meste er det nogle hurtige projekter.
Kender kun alt for godt til det hjemmesyede tøj, der er lagt så meget tid i, at ungerne næsten ikke må gå i det - eller at stoffet har været så dyrt, at man (næsten) græder når der kommer hul på knæet...Øver mig i kun at sige ja til at sy hurtigt jerseytøj... (og beviser min pointe ved at være i gang med at sy en skjortekjole til min ældste i dyrt atelie brunette stof!;))
SletDe er bare så fine!! Og så gør det mig ubeskriveligt glad at du har givet mønstret sådan en fin velkomst. Jeg er så glad for at en af mine favorit bloggere/IG'ere har givet det thumbs up ♡ - tusind tusind tak, Mette
SvarSletDet var så lidt - det er ægte begejstring:)
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