Pub­lished August 10, 2014

Crop Top Dress for Godmother

St. Michael’s Ukrain­ian Catholic Church is a very spe­cial place for my fam­i­ly. A lit­tle less than a year ago, my sis­ter and broth­er-in-law were mar­ried there. Then just this past week, my niece, Gigi, was bap­tized in St. Michael’s. The bap­tism was very nice and extreme­ly special.

Since Bap­tism is the most impor­tant day in one’s life, I though it appro­pri­ate that I make dress­es (and a one­sie) for the cer­e­mo­ny and reception.

Gigi wore the bap­tismal gown passed down through the fam­i­ly, which was sewn by my babcha. It was a beau­ti­ful gown! My babcha did all the (pink) hand stitch­ing on it as well. (Which reminds me….I’m com­ing out with bap­tismal gowns! They should be avail­able for sale lat­er this fall.)

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I absolute­ly adored the dress I made for myself to wear for Gigi’s baptism.

Last win­ter I made a short­er (and vel­vet) ver­sion of this dress, (see dress here). Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the vel­vet mate­r­i­al of the first dress made it dif­fi­cult to see all the details and pleats of the dress. I swore then that I would make this dress design again (before it goes out of style). I was so busy this spring that I nev­er got around to it. But once I was asked to be Gigi’s god­moth­er, I knew I had to do it.

I changed the orig­i­nal pat­tern in a few places. First, I made the skirt of the dress fuller than the orig­i­nal dress pat­tern. (The orig­i­nal pat­tern had the hem taper in.) I spent lots of mon­ey on this beau­ti­ful flo­ral fab­ric and I want­ed to use as much of the flo­ral pat­tern as I could. Sec­ond, I made the straps slight­ly thin­ner than the orig­i­nal pat­tern. And last­ly, I made the bot­tom bodice lay­er a stretch cream knit fab­ric. (This made the dress more com­fort­able and easy to wear!)

I made a white silk slip to wear under this dress! I will write some­thing about it in a lat­er post.

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