Since my daughter goes to school she has decided she only wants to wear
dresses and skirts. until the age of four she did not have an opinion
about her cloths and I usually dressed her in trousers. I considered
trousers to be much better suited for playing. Me, I also only regularly
wear dresses or skirts. Now, she apparently disagrees with my clothing
ideas and prefers something in which she can twirl. I looked online and
saw some great dresses but their price would prevent me let her play in
them.
Looking trough the pictures of dresses online the thought occurred to me
that I might be able to make a dress (or three) myself. I had inherited
a sewing machine and knew how to use it.
I occasionally had sewn some things but I never got
infected with the sewing fever. I decided to try again and bought a
universal pattern Butterick 4842 and used a piece of fabric that I
bought about 7 years before to make myself a skirt. The whole process
was much quicker than I expected (probably also because I skipped
finishing the sides of the fabric) and within two evenings her dress was
finished.
I felt the dress was a bit short and too wide and decided to
try again. I bought some new fabric made the bodice less wide and the
skirt longer. This time the whole thing was spot on and I created two
more dresses from the same pattern in two weeks. In the second picture
she is playing me, apparently this would also have been a great
pregnancy dress pattern.
I bought some more patterns and some
more fabric (that is how it starts right) and created another dress and
then my sewing skills went in hibernation for almost a year. Than I
discovered the fun of jersey and since then I have not gone a week
without sewing something.
