The Other Birthday Dress...

Yes, I made two. But Modern Jersey was on sale at Spoonflower and I'd been painting these pictures and I already had the fabric mostly designed and let's face it, who doesn't love a raglan dress?

I drafted the dress myself using one of her school uniform for size/shape and modifying it for the raglan sleeve. I used this tutorial to get the sleeve right.
The fabric was designed specifically for this type of dress and sized specifically for one yard of  Modern Jersey from Spoonflower.com.
 The dress is switchable from front to back because Wub liked panels. Maybe the alligator a little more. The bottom hem is a lettuce edge in rainbow thread.

See ya' later, alligator!

Chloe-"I've got my sword of galasies and I'm going to defeat the villaingers!"
(Ever noticed how villainous villagers usually are?)

Chloe-"Hey! let's tell each other smooky stories!"

I love that kid. A lot.

In other news I just got my fabric from Spoonflower. When I first discovered Spoonflower I was completely enamored with the idea of printing custom fabric. Two or three years later I finally learned enough to feel confident spending money on fabric I designed.

The first five are an homage to the much loved Blossom Festival sheets sets from Cannon. Sold by KMart in the early 70's these were much loved by little girls across the land. (We had the Cannon Malibu Stripe which were also pretty cool.)

Blossom Festival Blue














       Blossom Festival Black and White

                                                                                   

Blossom Festival PinkB

Blossom Festival Lime

Monkey Toile 

To be fair I changed the image size of the monkey toile to a much smaller repeat. I only ordered the extra large repeat by accident. I did make Wub a stinkin' cute shift dress from the mistake.