Another Christmas dress in border print

I already wrote in my previous post that I bought several woven fabrics in border print. The cloths I am showing you in this post are from Michael Miller's Wee wonder, which I also bought at Fabric.com.

 

I bought 2 yards to make my eldest a dress. I used my newly acquired Stof Voor Durf het Zelvers 2 and mixed and matched myself a great dress. I chose a bodice with small collar, long sleeves and a gathered skirt. Griet's (author of the books) daughters are probably of a similar build as my kids, because (I almost did not believe it) I had to use sizes that were similar to her length. Based on my daughter's measurements and the measurements table I made a dress from sizes varying between 104 and 116 (For Ottobre patterns I usually have to cut a width of 92) and the dress fits perfectly.

Getting ready for the spinning test. 

Spinning out of the frame.

I still had a big pile of fabric left after cutting the dress. My son, as usual looked a bit jealous at the girly fabric, and I decided to cut my son a shirt from it too. The pattern is from the same book. The pattern combines woven cotton with jersey. Only a small piece of woven cotton is needed and I cut the boy from the border to make it less girly. I used T3 transparent snaps on the shoulders, to keep the focus on the fabric. It would have been better if I would have cut a size 110 instead of 104, but this way my middle daughter will be able to enjoy the shirt soon.

 

I can also (almost) see it mommy!

 The last picture is just cute, but not usefull at all to show the shirt!

I again linkup this post to both the Sew and Show and Project Run and Play Christmas sewing link ups.

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