There were enough garments sewn and/or altered at Sewjourn to get me through weeks of blog posts! Consider yourself warned.
The pattern is Abigail by modkid. I made the 3T size for Stella. I was able to use scraps left over from a t-shirt and a pyjama top - despite being bought about a year apart, they coordinated! Beautiful quality cotton/lycra from Darn Cheap Fabrics (not from the $2 per metre table this time – I think they were around $7 or $8 per metre).
Stretch fabrics make such comfy dresses for kids (and we all know how much I like comfy). This was an easy dress to assemble and will possibly fit for a couple more years – I can let the sleeve hems down and the dress will just become a tunic as Stella grows.
This dress was constructed almost entirely on my Janome Mylock 744D. In a previous post I mentioned how often I swore at my overlocker when I was at Sewjourn. Well, now I have to speak nicely to it and apologise – because after I returned I made it into the sewing machine shop and bought some new overlocker needles. And I put them in the overlocker. And now it is sewing perfectly (although it’s still a bit noisy and I think that there are better overlockers around). The moral of the story? When your machine is skipping stitches and sewing badly – change the needles. And make sure that you put in the specified type. The HA-ISP needles have made all the difference to my overlocker. And I’ve stopped swearing.
Looks great Lara – and I am loving the poses Stella does at the moment!
Glad to hear that you’ve had success with the OL – new needles – there you go!
What are the seams like on the inside? I can’t help picturing a bunch of big fat overlocked seams at the chest of the dress.
That kid is a BORN model! (You already know that I love the dress).
You can probably get an overlocker that does the swearing for you these days.