Birthday Dress

Claire needed a special outfit for her birthday. I just assumed at first I would buy her something. I looked all over online for something cute with ladybugs on it. I found something on ebay that was pretty cute and I thought about buying it.

Then Ryan mentioned that I should make her a dress. I was a little leery because I have never actually sewn any baby clothes or really very many clothes at all. But, I found a cute pattern and some cute fabric and decided to go for it.


The pattern sizes were listed as 12M and 18-24M. I decided that I should make the 18-24M so it would fit Claire all summer.

After spending quite a bit of time putting it together and sewing the skirt to the bodice 3 times before I finally got it on right I tried it on Claire. The dress was huge. I had to make it all over again in the 12M size. And hey, I only had to sew the skirt on twice on the second dress!


Then there was a big internal debate about the color of the contrast band at the bottom of the skirt. I had originally bought a black and white polka dot print for this since they had no red and white at the store. But when I got home, I realized I had a scrap of red and white polka dot that would work for the band but not nearly enough to do the pantie. I eventually decided to go with the red & white but at the last minute add a black & white ribbon trim. Then I did black & white panties. It turned out really cute.


I ended up putting a black & white band on the first dress I made and gave it to my niece to wear. It fit her just fine. I can't believe I actually thought it would fit Claire.

Here they are together in their matching dresses.