Creativity | Sewing

Holiday finery

December 9, 2008

Here is Anya’s Holiday outfit.  She will be wearing it much, and it should hopefully fit her next year, too.  It was made from three different colors of duiponi silk that I bought on sale at 50%/60% off.  Yay!  Silks vary in their degree of fraying.  The blue one was really bad in the fraying department and it is the softest one of the three.  I just had to watch it and the hems are all serged.

The bodice has the three different colors.  I have runching and pintucking and yo-yo’s to decorate it.  It is lined, as well, and has covered buttons in the back.  The straps were originally too long so I just sewed them up on the top of the shoulder.  If I need to lower them eventually it shouldn’t be difficult at all.    The skirt has all three colors and is fairly full.  The silk ruffled exceedingly well on the serger.  It actually ruffled too much so I really had to be careful that I had enough fabric.  I could have made the skirt fuller rather easily.  Oh well, too late now!

I made some pants to go underneath the dress, and I’ll just put a cream shirt underneath, too.   I have a hard time with dresses in the wintertime since I want her to be warm.  The silk is like wearing AIR so I knew that wasn’t going to be warm at all.  I wanted to line the pants, but I didn’t have anything on hand.  I’ll just have to put tights on underneath or something.

Hopefully I will have pictures of her wearing it this week, since tonight is their Holiday Program for daycare.  We’ll see if they actually sing this time. 😀

23 Comments

  6. OOooo Magoo!(Stacy)you’ve done it again..

    I know I’m really dating myself with that statement. she will look STUNNING in that outfit..

    “O” Merry Christmas to Rach!!!! her new camera came in yesterday..Mr. Daddy got BIG points:o) *Thanks for all the help*

  8. Beautiful! Today I am going to start working on Colby’s pajamas, my first attempt at sewing apparel. I’m sure it should be pretty easy, but I’m still crossing my fingers! People with skills like your inspire me!

  9. I love the dress! That blue color is beautiful. She is so lucky to have a mommy that can make her look like a princess everyday of the year! Cant wait to see it one her.

  12. I love silk, I wanted a duiponi silk dress for my wedding but it was so out of my price range. I did get one with a duiponi silk sash as a compromise. I can’t wait to see a picture of her in the dress. I will cross my finger for you that all goes well with the daycare holiday show, you know how mine turned out (LOL)!

  13. Oh my gosh – the colors are so rich and vivid! I adore this outfit and I’m sure Anya will look perfect in it.

    Now I need to clean my keyboard from all the drool… Mr. Daddy needs to be talked into having a little girl 🙂

  21. first time visitor & must say, your children are utterly adorable!! I love your custom christmas card – what a wonderful way to celebrate your family at christmas.

  22. Go-go-GORGEOUS! I’m just getting to my bloggy friends, I had a bout of the ‘ol stomach flu yesterday – but Crafty Wednesday works too!

    And that dress puts everything I make to shame! Good grief, it is like a couture piece! I can’t wait to see it on Anya, too!

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