The is the second of the two Christmas/New Year's dresses I made this year. I did a little ranting about sewing with velveteen in the
last post and I won't do that again in this one! I think I've forgiven the fabric a little! This dress was made for my three year old from
Vogue 9042. The pattern came together pretty smoothly save for the zipper insertion at the bottom and the pleat included there. I had some trouble understanding exactly how they wanted the zipper included in that pleat so I went my own way. Also I used an invisible zipper and the pattern did not call for one- why I can't imagine.
As far as sizing goes, I made a size 3 with a size 4 length. My daughters are a little tall, I am so glad for them! The size feels just right, its not too roomy and the size 4 length worked perfectly for my three year old.
Both the satin and the velveteen are from Hancock fabrics. They are beautiful, I would say that this was the better behaved of the two velveteens I worked with but the sleeves undoubtedly gave me the hardest time with both dresses. If you are looking for nice velveteen I can recommend Hancock's. I completely lined the inside of the dress and the pattern included lining pieces- oh thank you, thank you, thank you Vogue for including those lining pieces so that I did not have to jimmy one myself.
This dress is really darling and in a cotton would be easy to whip up. I love sweet little dresses like this with yokes, peter pan collars, pleats and gathered sleeve heads. By the way she loves the dress too. At first she declared it "not pretty" when I was making it but when she put it on she loved it! My oldest liked her dress too, she was a little challenging to photograph. My three year old was very cooperative about these pictures (surprise!) and she really wanted to show off her new tricycle- doesn't everyone ride tricycles while wearing velveteen dresses!
Ok well there you have it, its a sweet little dress if you are in the market for a pattern like this one and it sews up fine apart from the confusing bit at the bottom of the zipper!
