bubble dress from fashionable clothes...

 My favorite trees around here.... pink dogwoods stretching out in the sunshine.  Ahhh the sunshine this week has been quite nice.  I made this bubble dress for Grace from the cover of Fashionable clothes girls like.

 Looks like she likes it here  eh?  Nope, girlfriend does NOT like this dress, at least she didn't soon after she tried it on, it is too short she wants a LOOONG princess dress.  I thought a poofy dress in her current preferred color would be good but no.  She was harsh, wanted to throw it in the garbage, but in the end and after a pretty substantial guilt trip that I am not proud of, she came out with the dress (back on after a few clothes changes).

 We printed the purple Kona cotton with the stamp Brian carved from the Making an Impression book. There is one on teh front, one on the back and one on each pocket.

Well, regardless, it is very cute on her, and maybe it grew on her as she wore it, we'll see if we can get it into rotation.  Hmm, notes on sewing it, well, it takes a lot of fabric, and that means a lot of gathering.  Otherwise, it was pretty easy to put together,  I tried to figure out how to get the seam that connects the inner and outer dress pieces along the hemline to be an internal seam, and managed to sew the dress into an awful mobius strip before ripping it all out and just having an external seam as the pattern seems to suggest.  Some people online seem to have figured it out, but suggestions were cryptic at best.  I did take the suggestion of the Sew 2 pro blog and encased it in some bias tape, just to neaten things up a bit, esp. since G has a tendancy to show off the inside of her dress often.