Showing posts with label bubble dress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bubble dress. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

A bubble dress.

I have a plan for Easter sewing, a dress for each of the girls and a button down and pants for the boys.  It is an ambitious goal considering I am only just now starting, but as with years past I am not going to kill myself trying or be disappointed if I can't get it all done.  


I started with this yard of fabric, my whole plan revolves around it.  I picked the other two girls dress fabrics based on the colors in this dress.

I was going to wait on photographing the outfits until I had them all finished and could do them together, but I found this incredible spot this afternoon on a walking trail.  It happened to be one of the few spots accessible from the street (it is off a twisty narrow road), and pretty much the only spot that you can't see houses in the distance or power lines.



I can't believe it's been two years since I last made this pattern, the girls wore those to death, until they became indecently short.  So, I figured to knock out two birds with one stone, Easter sewing and the size 5 project.  This is, of course, the Oliver + S Bubble Dress in a size 4.  It is a really quick sew, and able to be made out of just one yard, well, one yard for the main and one for lining.

Georgie was so excited while I was sewing this dress, 'It's just for me?!' 'Do I have to share?' and Iz was so confused, 'but why is there only one?'.  Haha, I usually assembly line two for them, but I figure it probably isn't a great idea this time as their closets are quite full already and I want to make other patterns in the stash...

So, I plan to make Izzy a Fairy Tale, Jack and Sam a Sketchbook and Art Museum, aaaand Abby is my only question mark.  I am thinking a Garden Party, but we will see how she feels.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Birthday bubbles.

The twins turn two on Tuesday, but I decided to take the easy way out and just do cupcakes for them during our Father's Day dinner tonight.  I also decided that yes, I will make them new dresses for the occasion. 
 
I actually bought this pattern to make them dresses for Easter, but didn't end up having time then.  I bought the bubble dress almost immediately after seeing Tilly's by Nicole, gorgeous! I also followed her tutorial:)
 
 


Can I tell you how hard it is to take two nearly two year old's photos?? Very.   Both the dresses are 18 month.



I had nearly given up on the session when Izzy suddenly stopped and I snapped really quickly and ended up with a pretty cute one of her (this was literally the last photo I took).



Most of them were like this... Especially when I tried to get both of them together. 



 Though, this one was kinda cute, even if George is a little out of focus.


 
It is amazing the dresses were clean for the shoot, considering we had some cupcakes a few hours earlier- and they had worn them all day.  BTW, those cupcakes were yummy!
 
 


They had fun blowing out the candles, and Grandma was more than happy to re light them:)