Itty Bitty Dress Variation

Most of you are probably already familiar with Rae.

She's hosting the famous Celebrate the Boy series with Dana.

She has a free pattern/ tutorial for the Itty Bitty Dress, and a few readers have left comments recommending her pattern.

So here's my little version.

I wish I knew how big this baby girl is going to be--my first baby was 9 lb 8 oz and was born having to wear 3-6 month clothes.  The outfit I brought to the hospital barely fit on his chubby body.  Fat guy in a little suit.

So I made the dress bigger than Rae's pattern, in case I have another jumbo baby, so it will hopefully be big enough for the summer (I'm hoping she's just a little 6 lb peanut).

I finished and realized this dress matches her room.  I guess I'm on a red/ turquoise kick.

The red chevron knit was from fabric.com and they had purple too when I bought it a few weeks ago.  I lined the bodice with a scrap from a red t-shirt.

Another variation was changing the shoulder straps from the ties to the back folding over wiht buttons.

The pattern narrows at the base to tie, but I kept each strap 2" wide and then kept the rounded ends on the back straps 2" shorter than the pattern.  I just cut straight across for the front straps.

I added the turquoise trim in the seams when I sewed the bodice lining to the exterior.  It was just 1" strips of cotton broadcloth cut on the bias and ironed in half, sewn in with 1/4" seam allowance, so 1/8" is showing.  The waist strip was also cut on the bias and just sewn to the bodice right before attaching the skirt.

So far my husband says this is his favorite dress I've made for her.