Custom Pieces for My Nieces

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down
burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Kitty cat Black White Childrens
Gigi with one of her 3 Maine Coon buddies

Here are a cou­ple dress­es I made for my niece Gigi and my (not-yet-here) niece (which I’ll call) “Kiki.”  My sis­ter snapped a few pho­tos of Gigi in the dress­es. (The dress sizes are 12mos and 6mos, so they are a bit big on Gigi.)

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

I used Bur­dastyle’s Baby Pat­tern #147 Dress 9/2013 for the dresses.

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

The beau­ti­ful flo­ral print dress is for Kiki. I absolute­ly love this dress! This design not only fits my style, but it also reminds me of my old­er sis­ter and the house­coat I made her for her bridal show­er gift. Also, the illus­trat­ed flow­ers look like they could’ve been drawn by my old­er sister!

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

Gigi’s dress is the red, black, and white kit­ty cat dress. If you knew my sis­ter (Gigi’s moth­er) when she was younger (or even as an adult), you know that this cot­ton fab­ric print is per­fect for Gigi!

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Kitty cat Black White Childrens

I was hop­ing to whip these dress­es up in no time, but they took more time than I expect­ed! It’s a bit more dif­fi­cult to sew tiny set-in sleeves and machine fin­ish hems. Because of this, the dress­es required a lot of hand stitch­ing and basting.

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

I’ll post Kik­i’s bap­tismal dress after her bap­tism next year!

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down
Tear-Away inter­fac­ing used for buttonholes

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Kitty cat Black White Childrens

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Kitty cat Black White Childrens

gigi 133 burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress

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burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

burdastyle 147 09 2013 Dress Red Blue Floral Cotton Dress Girls Summer Spring button down

I hope you had a nice Thanks­giv­ing. Thanks for reading!

Please keep my old­er sis­ter and “Kiki” in your prayers!

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3 thoughts on “Custom Pieces for My Nieces

  1. Mary

    Oh my good­ness. This is cute beyond words. Thanks for shar­ing, you made my day 🙂

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks! And I’ll make your first grand­daugh­ter a kit­ty cat dress 😉

      Reply

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