I have finally been able to unpack my sewing machine and actually made some things recently, which made me feel like a half organised human again until I realised the actual mess I make when I do any sewing. No matter, the end result I was fairly pleased with so that's a bonus.
I wanted to make some little Christmas presents for my friends little girls, they live in Papua New Guinea you see (we went to visit them last year) and the little pikininnies need some long sleeve, elastic cuff, long kaftan type tops to wear at night with leggings to avoid getting malaria. I have been meaning to make these for aaaaaaages (like a year!) but had not found the right pattern, I bought this one, pulled out some fabric I knew my friend had said she liked before and kind of just made it up as I went along so it turned out a bit different actually. The first one I made was the brown floral one, and the sleeves I realised would be about 3/4 length, so I lengthened the ones for her big sister. They were quite billowy and loose, probably good for the hot sticky weather but I added a belt to funkify them a little. Some ribbon through the neck casing and voila!
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| Two little shirt dresses ready to go! My mannequin is a size 1-2 so the bigger one on the right looked a little baggy on it. |
2 comments:
Very cute. I've made something very similar for me a while back and thought then that they would be great for little girls.
These shirt dresses are too cute & I absolutely love your wishlist. :]
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