Daisies and Dragons for Dorothy

I'm a little slow in blogging some of my finished projects, so I'm going to combine two things I have recently made for my daughter.

First, I embellished a skirt to go with this daisy shirt that I made in the Spring to go with a pair of crazy striped pants I bought for $1.  The pants are too hot for summer, so I bought a knit skirt that looks like denim to go with the shirt.  To make the skirt and shirt look like they actually go together, I sewed on some little white daisy trim to the bottoms of the ruffles.  It was so quick and easy to do and makes such a big difference.  I just adore this little outfit now and keep grabbing it out of her closet every time it is clean.

She was not in a cooperative mood for pictures, but making bubbles with a hand mixer slowed her down a bit.

Not the greatest picture, but you can see (almost) the entire thing.

Dorothy is currently in a Puff the Magic Dragon phase and I saw some adorable dragon fabric at the store a couple of weeks ago and had to have it.  It was a home dec fabric, but was 100% cotton, so despite it saying dry clean only, I decided to go for it.  Even better, it was on clearance.  The kids were invited to a pirate themed birthday party, so the day before the party I decided that I need to finally get the dress made so she could wear it to the party the next day.  For some reason, pirates and dragon go together in my head.

I think it turned out very cute and she didn't have any sheared dresses yet for this summer. 

I have a couple more things that I want to make for her, but I better get on it or summer will be over before she can wear them.

The Big Cheese

I needed some children in different sizes than my own to model some clothes for my Etsy shop.  A mom from Malcolm's school was nice enough to loan me her children for a little bit to take some pictures of them in the clothes I had made.  (Aren't they super cute kids?)  Their mom asked if I would be able to make shirts for the kids for their trip to Disney that was in about two days.  I wasn't sure, but after some quick checking, decided that I could get them done in time.  The parents had not told the kids they were going to Disney yet, and they are going to have them open up the shirts as a surprise as to where they are going.  I think they turned out pretty cute and I hope the kids like them.

Ahoy!

I made this shirt for Malcolm to match some seersucker shorts my mom bought him.  When we were looking at designs for his birthday shirt, he saw this ship and really got excited about it and I was happy to finally have a design that I could use to match the shorts that were sitting here.  We have tickets to go on a tall ship that sails out on Lake Michigan where my friend works as a pirate, so I think I'll have him wear it for that and for an upcoming pirate themed birthday party.

He cooperated to stand and let me take his picture, but he would not cooperate to look at the camera.  Oh well, I really just wanted a picture of the shirt anyway.