Skater Dress.

The Kitschy Coo Skater Dress is probably one of my very most used patterns. It's such a classic shape and so easy to wear! It always looks so cute on the girls.

It is also one of the dresses that they consistently pull out of their closet to wear- so it must be good!

It is great to show off a print, and also very easy to customize.

I typically use cotton lycra for it, so many great prints and it can be hard to find great patterns to use cl on since it doesn't drape well, though as kids it doesn't matter as much. for this one I used a double brushed poly and eliminated the waist seam to change it up just a little.

Really though, this is their favorite one.  I think at this point George probably wears it more than Izzy, but she does try to get her turn in it!

This is why they love it so much! I added a full circle skirt.  I really should have added some clear elastic to the waist seam, the skirt is a little heavy. I guess nothing is stopping me from adding it now, ha! Well, other than the fact they search it out and wear it every time it comes out of the dryer.

Skaters.

Continuing on with my list, I chose to make a couple of Kitschy Coo Skater Dresses.

I used a fun print from Girlcharlee and a stripe from Riley Blake.   I really love the RB knits that I have used so far, and at our local hardware/fabric shop they carry a few prints, stripes and solids.  Bonus is, they always have one 40% off coupon to use on something not already on sale, so I can pick up a yard for a steal sometimes.

I made both the dresses in a 3/4, turns out they were pretty big.  I did add length to the skirt, thinking I would need to, but I probably didn't.  I tried the dress on each of the girls and it was quite big in the chest, so I went back and took this one in a little, and sewed the second one with a bigger seam allowance to start with.

I tested my fabric and decided there was enough stretch to turn the stripes for the neckband and sleeve cuffs.  I thought it was a fun feature.

George claimed this one because she wanted to wear these shoes and as it turns out, these shoes were kind of the inspiration for the dress.  I found them over the weekend for a steal and couldn't pass them up.

I originally bought this fabric for me, but held on to it for a few months.  I realized I was very unlikely to wear something this loud, so I had settled on a pair of Playtime leggings.  But those wouldn't work until it cools off, so I decided why not give this a go.  And I loooove it so much!  I think this is my favorite of the two.

It was kind of hurting my head to work out what part of the print to use for the neckband and sleeve cuff, so I actually left the cuffs off and just hemmed them.  And the picutre is a little washed out, it is actually not white, but a very light blue.