What I Did Last Summer (part 2 of 2)

Hi, I come back with last year’s stuffs. Let’s continue to see what I did in last summer.

Butterflies Summer Dress

Inspired by this dress, I made butterflies dress from one yard fabric and lined it with pink batiste cotton. It has dark brown trim on front bodice, fabric buttons closure and ties at back.

Pattern: self-drafted
Fabric: David textiles cotton print 

JC and her brother, OC. Summer 2012

Ice Cream Social / Birthday Dress

I’m huge fan of Jess from Craftiness Is Not Optional (CINO) and I used her tutorial to make these dresses. It’s easy peasy tutorial and how lovely the dresses turned out, I suggest you try this tutorial. Btw, are you following Vintage May series hosted by Jess and Kristin? It’s one of my favorite series and the guests are fabulous! Don’t miss it, head over their blog to see what they made now.

Fabrics: Griffith Floral and Zinia Garden

Ice Cream Social Dress. Fabric: Griffith Floral

Birthday dress: ruffled bottom hem. Fabric: Zinia Garden by Patty Young

The birthday girl and her cake

Junebug Dress

Another tutorial from Jess (CINO) that I followed.

JC loves it because it has drop down “window” on front bodice and she said it’s cute dress. She is right.

Summer Dress with Collar

Similar to Butterflies dress above, but I added half peter pan collar and using zipper for back closure. If I look back on this dress, sometimes I feel amused. I promise myself to make better peter pan collar from now onward.

The trim is woven Jaquard ribbon I bought from this Etsy store but I'm not sure if they still carry it now.

Pattern: self-drafted

Fabric: Punch Fruit Organic cotton fabric 

Last but not least: Cityblock Playday Dress

Bought this fabric by impulse and had no idea what to make until I found the sewing pattern from this book. This is my first pintucks dress (front and back bodice have pintucks). I love the small ruffled sleeves, make it looks cute. I combined it with Kona solid aqua color. The buttons are from local shop. 50 cents for 8 pieces, worth finding :)

Fabrics:  Heaven and Helsinki from Michael Miller fabrics and Kona cotton from Robert Kaufman

Hope you can find some inspirations from my posts although there’re many possibilities to make summer dress, design is  never ended.

Btw, next week I take part in Knock It Off series hosted by Heidi, a talented lady behind E&E patterns. Curious about my knock off dress? Please come back next Friday! Also don't forget to check other guests' creations at Heidi's blog, they are awesome! 

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

What I Did Last Summer (part 1 of 2)

This is not a title of novel or drama. I was organizing my photos file and let me share you some dresses that I sewed last summer. It’s almost one year since I started to sew clothes for JC. Some of them are wore one or two times only. By looking back on these dresses, hope I will be wiser building her wardrobe for this coming summer. 

Flutter Sleeves Dress

This was a very first dress I made after my sewing machine arrived home. JC wears it quite often, if you notice I’ve been making this kind of dress recently, you can see them here and here. The fabric was Japanese cotton print - older than JC - I bought it from Jakarta 10 years ago. Pattern is from Sewing Recipe for Girl’s book, but I didn’t make the front closure exactly as per book.

Seersucker Dress 

This is applied pattern #1 from the same book as Flutter Sleeves dress above. JC only wore it once before it got stained and hasn’t been worn again ‘till now.
Fabric: Seersucker stripes cotton from local shop.

Blue Sorbet Dress

Same pattern as Seersucker with sleeves added.

I made this dress for play day at JC’s school. Below is a picture from last year’s event.
Fabric: Ice blue sorbet cotton from local shop.

Pillowcase Tunic

I followed step by step instructions from Sewing Recipe for Girl’s book and made it as tunic instead of dress, there’s no pattern provided for this dress because it’s only rectangle fabric that being sewn using shirring technique. She got chance to wear it twice before the weather turned chill.
Fabric: Floral cotton print from local shop.

Modern Flowers Jumper

Self-drafted pattern, JC likes it very much because of the big florals print. 

Fabric: Woodland Delight cotton from Michael Miller.

The weather is cold again today, she’s in this jumper and dressed her up with my scarf and hat before go to school.

Note to myself: I have to iron this dress properly.

To be continued...

Giveaway Winner

Thank you everyone who participated in my giveaway. Today we have a winner of jumper dress. Congratulations Andronika! you win Air Balloon jumper. I have sent you an email, look forward to hearing from you.

For those who didn’t win, I have a coupon for you to use until May 15, 2013. Enter FREESHIP code during check out , you’ll get free shipping for jumper dress purchase.  Enjoy and have a nice day!

Air Balloon jumper size 2T

GIVEAWAY: Jumper Dress

KCW Spring 2013 was over and am glad to know that one of the clothes which I sewed last week, been featured on KCW wrap up.  Yay! Thank you, Meg :). First time for me to participate in and seen many participants share their beautiful creations, I’m super impressed and feel motivated by this sew-along.

Now, let’s celebrate it by doing something fun!

I have a little gift for your baby girl or toddler. ONE lucky winner will receive a jumper dress size 1T or 2T from my Etsy shop.

To win this giveaway, please :

1. Visit this page to see which dress you would like to receive.

2. Leave comment on this post by telling me your choice.

3. LIKE Lollipop Garden Kids’ facebook OR join my blog (FYI, Google Friend connect will be retired this summer, alternatively you can join me with BlogLovin ).

This giveaway is open to international residents and will be ended by Tuesday, May 7 , 2013 at midnight (EST).  I’ll announce winner on Wednesday, May 8. The package will be sent by Canada Post (Small Package – International Air).

Have fun and good luck, everyone!

** Please enter via Rafflecopter below**

  

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Shop Talk: New Items

Just a brief post about new items were added in store.

For more details, please click the link below.

:: Happy Hills ::

:: Wonder Toys ::

Thank you. Happy Monday! :)

KCW - Day 6 and 7: Hoodie Shirt + Summary

My last project (#5 of 5) for KCW Spring 2013.

Long sleeves shirt with hood

Confession:  I bribed this lil’ boy with chocolate to do modeling.

Pattern: Polka Drops Sewing Book, project #1, size 110 cm

Fabric: Yarn dyed checkered pattern 100% cotton from local store.

BTW, I managed to take picture of JC wearing the first outfit. It’s completely done now with buttons closure at back.

Balloon Sleeves Blouse and Polkadots Pant

OK, here is summary of my projects:

L to R:

Balloon Sleeves Blouse (a.k.a PhD Blouse) + Polkadots Pant, London Bus Pant, Lou Lou Thi Dress, Hoodie Shirt

What a busy week I have had! Thank you Meg and Dorie for this sew along!
Have a great weekend, everyone!

KCW - Day 5: Lou Lou Thi Dress

Day 5 of KCW Spring 2013! How was your day, how many clothes have you done so far? As this is spring season and the weather here in my city is getting warmer and friendly this week, I feel spring is really coming now! (there were days with flurry of snow last week). Well, I chose floral fabric to make another flutter sleeves dress. You might have seen this dress which I made last month, it’s from same pattern. But this time I had enough fabric, so I made it  as per picture shown in the book, I meant a flutter sleeves dress with bias tape sewed at neckline area.

I followed step by step instructions. After sewed pocket, the second step was to make front closure. 

Step by step photos show how to make front closure

But…ooopps! The gap of front closure was too wide and deep cut. 

Front Closure

I checked the book again and noticed the model in book wore under garment tee to layer this dress.

One of the model

I like to put under garment tee on my children, especially during cooler weather. But I think this is a challenge for me if I can come up with solution of the wide gap. After a second thought, I got idea to cover the gap with another placket. Problem solved! :)

A placket sewn under front closure

Here is JC, modeling for her Lou Lou Thi flutter sleeves dress. End of day 5 ;)

Pattern: Sewing Recipe for Girl’s, project #1, size 110 cm
Fabric: Lou Lou Thi by Anna Maria Horner