Originally Posted by
IrishNY
Rose, I love your dresses! Can you share the pattern info please?
We have an 11 yo DGS and 13 yo DGD, and just added a new DGD at the end of May, so I'm starting to make little outfits again. We feel very blessed that they live about 6 hours from us and we both work from home now, so we can isolate, drive straight over and love on her for a few days.
I hope you can do the same soon. It's so hard when you can't be with them when they are small and changing so quickly.
Thank you. Congratulations on your new DGD! The embroidered dress is from a vintage pattern from when my daughter was a baby in 1978. I was surprised it was still usable. I made it a little differently, using the lace instead of a ruffle. It's Butterick 6718, which might turn up for you on Etsy or eBay or some other source. Or this Etsy pdf pattern is virtually identical but has pockets and more sizes included:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/7825608...uyer_promise-1 The old Butterick pattern has a long version and two sleeve styles as well as a bonnet, panties and ruffled pram pillow. The other two dresses are my altered version of an Etsy pattern:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/6070415...f=yr_purchases I intend to make the ruffled one at some later date. The whale pattern, in case anyone else wants to try it, was a freebie, and very easy to make:
https://sewitsmade.com/blue-whale-tu...-free-pattern/ When my older DGS was 4 he had a shark toy that he carried around everywhere, so I'm hoping his young cousin will like the whale.