Peter pan collared and smocked dresses are my favourite style to dress my little girl. Since I do not have the time yet to learn real smocking, this dress pattern from Japanese 'Children's Style Book' is the closest to a smocked dress. There are 3 rows of gathers on the front of this dress which gives the smocking effect after I embroidered some decorative zig-zag stitches on top of the gathers. The dress (80cm pattern size) is a bit big and long on my almost-one-year-old, hope she will grow into it soon.
The picture above is a bit blur, but that's the best I can manage as I always get blurred pictures as she's really an active kid!
The dress
Close up - zig zag embroidery for 'faux smocking'
Work in progress
This book has a great variety of little girls' patterns, I really recommend this one!
The cranky little princess
Updated on 18 April 2010: This is her modelling the dress at 1 year and 8 months old.
puting ur skills to good use..
ReplyDeleteMAMI!
lovely baby and lovely dress!
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Très jolie cette robe d'enfant sage ;)
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ReplyDeleteI love your sewing too.
A bientôt !
Ethanielle.
Hi Sertyan!
ReplyDeleteI think it looks amazing! Wow! In fact I was planning on doing a piece on Japanese craft & sewing books--I would love to link to your blog as an example!
- Dottie
What a wonderful dress, and lovely baby ! Congratulations !
ReplyDeleteVery cute! That looks like something I would like to try.
ReplyDeleteHello! This is the sweetest little dress!! Anything with a peter pan collar has my vote :)
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oh, it's gorgeous! I love the faux smocking!
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