The Ponderosa Dress

Alrighty then, lets talk about a pink dress yet again shall we!

Anita basically only wants to wear dresses and even though they are usually very cute they aren’t all that practical on cold days in kindergarten.  But I guess long sleeved knit dresses are the best option for those situations, and I have made a few so far even though I haven’t posted them all here.  

So today that’s the kind I want to show you!

This is the Ponderosa Dress, a pattern by Elegance & Elephants.  Which was one of the first sewing blogs I started to follow.  I love her patterns and I have sewn up quite a few of them by now, the bubble pocket shorts are one of my favorites and I plan on making some more of those again for Anita before sommer hits us.

Like all of E&E’s patterns everything is spot on, pattern pieces come together easily and the instructions are great.  The only thing that was a bit tricky with this one was the neck binding and that was mostly I think because my old sewing machine couldn’t handle all those layers at ones.  But now I have a brand new machine so I’m sure it will go much better next time around!

I made Anita a size 4 and the fit is spot on.

Of course we need some dance moves!

The fabric is from Art Gallery called Orni which I ordered from Imagine Gnats.  I couldn’t find it on her site now so I guess it is sold out there.  The stripy fabric I got at my local fabric store, Kreaktiv.

I asked her to smile but I’m not quite sure what she thinks she is doing here.  

Most of our photos from this photo shot were like this and the more 

I told her to smile the worse it got!  

I guess she is a bit out of practice after our winter hibernation!

And then there was Noi – our photobomber!

Finally daddy came along and made a funny face and all was good!

Love 

Dagbjört.

Heading towards spring!

We have been enjoying some lovely springdays in between the rainy ones so I could finally snap some photos outside.  And o boy it is sooooo much easier than dealing with setting up the backdrop and trying to figure out the lighting, which I haven’t been successful

with this winter.

Hopefully it won’t be as far between my blogposts now that we are going towards

warmer weather.

My littlest man turned 5 in February and of course that called for a new button down shirt.

I used the Bookworm shirt pattern from Blank Slate Patterns.  I made view A in size 5.  The pattern is really good with great instructions as Blank Slate patterns tend to be

so the shirt came together quite easily.

I wanted a slim fit so I didn’t size up this time, but I think it is too short so I should have added to the length.  He will just have to wear this shirt for every occasion we get before he outgrows it.

The fabric is Arrows from the Mustang collection from cotton + steel  I ordered mine from

the laughing house fabric store.  She has some great fabrics and great service.

Even Anita likes this fabric and wants a dress from it!

It’s not so easy to see but for the inside of the collar stand I used XOXO in green with gold also from cotton + steel.

His jeans are from Next so I wont be taking credit for them.

Love

Dagbjört