My niece Molly will be one year old this month! I made her a birthday dress & coat.
I used a Simplicity re-issue 2629 from 1948. I made the little dress in the upper right corner of the pattern envelope and the pink jacket pictured under that to go over it.
I followed the pattern except I cut the dress much shorter. Molly is crawling a lot and I didn't want the dress to be so long that it caught up under her knees and could hinder her crawling . Babies get very annoyed by that! I added pin tucks by the bottom hem. I also added a lining to the inside of the coat . The lining makes it much more comfortable to wear and much easier to get on and a wiggly baby! :)
Here she is in the dress:
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| I embroidered little bunnies onto the dress & jacket. |
The instructions for the bunnies are in
Sew Cute Couture. This book is lovely to look at but I doubt I will ever do any of the smocking in the book. Seems very time consuming. I love some of the embroidered embellishments in the book. It uses buttons and embroidery and they are all adorable. The simplicity pattern came with a pretty floral design but I liked the bunnies better. The bunnies are boullion knots with lazy daisies for ears. I love these bunnies for a baby item, even better as it is near Easter!
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| Those were the tiniest buttons I have ever sewn onto anything. |
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The pintucks were very time consuming as they needed to be just perfect to look right.
I love the tiny lace on the sleeves. I bought the tiniest lace I could find. |
Here is the little jacket over the dress.
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Some of the purple fabric marker is still visible around the bunnies.
I marked lines on the fabric so the bunnies were evenly spaced and level. |
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| The lining was not attached yet. |
The entire lining was hand sewn in. I didn't want any stitch lines visible on the outside.
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| The sleeves are pinned up and ready to be hand sewn in. |
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I put a little label in the jacket & the dress.
It has the year on it so it can be dated in later years. I am going to try to
put labels in everything I make from now on. |
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| Inside out front |
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| Inside out back |
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| Molly was getting sleepy as it was near bedtime. |
I was very happy the little coat fit her perfectly! I made the 12 month size and hoped for the best.
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| Molly loved the coat hanger best of all. |
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| Sleepy baby. |
When it warms up a bit, I am going to take more pictures of Moly in her dress and then turn them to black & white. If I print them on super glossy paper and rough the up a touch, they will look like 1948 prints ! :) :)
