Dresses For My Daughter

These were all done over the last year.

I've made several of these super easy skirts New Look 6172.  I don't have any good pictures, but they're all wrinkled and stained anyway, because she is 6, and even in her pretty clothes, she plays like a 6 year old :).  This is the only one I can find, and I made her a matching bow tie for "bow tie day" at school:

For her first dress, I used New Look 6204.  She chose from the quilting cottons at Joanne, because there are SO many fun fabrics in that section, even though they wrinkle like crazy.  She loves butterflies, so we made her a butterfly dress:

 She loves it.  And she doesn't even care that I didn't get the fit quite right in the bodice.

 Next I wanted to try New Look 6202. She wanted ladybug colors, so that's what she got.  I only wish I'd made a belt:

So this last one was made in February 2015.  I've gotten better, and love to mix and match patterns, and even draft my own.  So for this one, I used a soft cotton jersey fabric that I had purchased with something else in mind.  I realized the print is way too youthful for a dress for mommy, but so perfect for her.  I mostly used parts of the pattern used for the ladybug dress, in an attempt to create something like the "skater dresses" they're selling at Childrens Place.  This is my favorite, and she lovvvvves it!  I will be definitely making more of these: