An upside to us all feeling completely grotty was once that
we were over the worst of it, there was lots of time for recuperating on the
sofa watching films, reading books, discovering new blogs and pinning like
crazy on pinterest. I came across this great Belgian sewing blog called straightgrain where I found these fabulous little girl dresses made from photographic fabric. On the left Holy Cow! and on the right Oh Deer! They are so cute and kitschy. I absolutely
love them.
The fabrics were from ebay but I trawled and couldn't find anything similar. I did find some beautiful but more pricey photo fabric on spoonflower. How great is this leaping horse? I would love to make it into an A-line dress for little P. The fabric design is large enough to have one horse front and back.
And I adore these roses. They would make a beautiful prom-style dress.
She was seeing red when he gave her an apology posy.
This greatly
enhanced his grocery store purchase.
She kept the flowers and lost the
man.
Hmm definitely rings a few bells with me.
There is a blue version which I love too.
I’ve got a few patterns for children’s dresses I want to try
out, maybe on a less pricey fabric first. I did try making a peasant style
dress without a pattern, which I may share another time but to be honest it was a
bit of a disaster. Probably because of the 39ºC temperature I was spiking and
the small grizzly child sitting on my knee throughout. Little P’s verdict was “I will wear it on the beach” which I
thought was a pretty tactful way of saying “You messed up on that one so I
won’t be wearing it where anyone I know might see me.”
