The Garden Girl Collection: The Jane Dress and Top

Today is my part two of the Garden Girl Collection Trilogy.

The Jane Dress and Top from Shwin Designs.

The Garden Girl Collection: The McKenzie Tunic turned Dress.

Anita:  Mom, why do you make me so many dresses?

Me:  Hmmm, because I really like making them.

Is it possible that she has too many dresses?  

Nahhh, I girl can never have to many dresses!  Am I right?

She is very happy with her newest addition.  Of course she wanted to wear it to kindergarten today, but she agreed to pick out another one for today so she can wear the new one tonight when we attend Roberts graduation from 10th grade.

My to oldest don't get profiled much here, or not at all.  I have only sewed one pair of pajama shorts for Robert, which he refused to model for this blog, and nothing for Hartmann.  I guess it's a bit trickier to please 16 and 19 year old boys than the little ones.  Maybe one day - we'll see!

Ok, now the star of this post

Shorts = Summer?

We are trying to stay optimistic that there will be summer here this year so I keep

sewing summer clothes for the kiddos.

Now it was Viktors turn, and he wanted shiny shorts!

Oh boy how am going to pull that off, I thought!

So together we looked through my fabrics and he found this great cotton + steel xoxo in green

I bought from Miss Matatabi.

So green and gold shorts I made.

Pleasing a picky little customer

I had mixed emotions when cutting out my fabric for the dress I am going to share with you today.

I truly loved the color palette I ended up with BUT I was not sure at all how my picky little customer would react.

Almost no pink, common how is that going to end well?!

Well...

Penny Dress

Well hello!

I'm still here even though May didn't turn out quite as productive on the sewing front as I had hoped.  It took me some time to decide what to make, there where a couple of long weekends and I got hooked on Mad Men.  When I get hooked on something I just can't stop until it's done!  I only have a few episodes left and then I'll dive into my lovely fabric stash again. 

So far I have only sewed from pdf patterns and this time I thought I'd try sewing from an e magazine.  I know it's basically the same thing but I thought maybe the instructions wouldn't be as detailed.  At least when I was reading through them before cutting my fabric it all seemed so much harder.  But then when I had all my fabric pieces in front of me it all made sense. 

Working on the summer wardrobe.

HELLO!

KCW: My Prepster Lion.

And now its time to show off my other Wild Thing!

Here is Viktor in his Prepster Pullover from Blank Slate Patterns.

KCW: Pink Stallions!

I really wanted to sew along with kids clothes week this time 

cause I had the perfect fabrics for the theme - Wild Things.

But I had to do my sewing last week because my in-laws will be visiting this week.

I managed to finish what I had planned and today I'll share Anitas wild thing outfit.

If you read my last post you might remember that I said my next post would also 

feature patterns from Jennuine Design.

Tada!

Here you have the Haven Acres Blouse and the Dressage Leggings.

The Verona Dress.

I really wasn't going to buy any more patterns for a while,

 cause I kind of have plenty already - even some I haven't sewn up yet.

But then all my favorite designers start launching new patterns for spring! 

And who am I kidding - I have no self control!!

After following the blog tour for the Verona Dress from Jennuine Design

I just had to have that pattern.

Nice and comfy!

In this post I'm going to continue with a comfortable outfit for active kids, 

and this time Viktor is the star of the show.

Once again I played around with colorblocking the Recess Raglan pattern 

from See Kate Sew.

My original plan was to use the Explorer Hoodie pattern,

but in the end I went with what I knew.

I definitely will sew up the Explorer Hoodie another time though.

The pants are the Mini Hudson Pants from True Bias.