Phoebe Dress

This is the "real" dress.

Remember I made the "practice" dress?  This is the real dress, using the cotton lawn fabric and making the adjustments I learned from my mistakes on the practice dress.  The pattern is Vogue 1086 and I added 1.5" to the bottom of the bodice, made the neck higher, added the contrasting ribbing on the waist midriff, lengthened the skirt 3", lined the skirt, and added sleeves.

I'm calling it the Phoebe dress because I bought the fabric and planned this dress to wear for my daughter's blessing.  Her middle name is Phoebe.  Her blessing was this past Sunday.  My sister-in-law and I had our babies on the same day, so we blessed our babies on the same day.

Since I talk about my mom all the time, I thought I'd show you a photo of her.

Here's the two birthday cousins.  Joshua slept the whole time, while Ellie was wide awake being passed around all the family.  Here's the link to her blessing dress I made {I did have to alter the bodice and sleeves to be smaller once she was born}

Here's the two brothers that had babies on the same day, my husband is on the right with our baby looking like she's nervous her dad will drop her.

So we had a great day with all the family, but back to the dress.

This was the occasion for which I spray painted my shoes yellow and they cracked.

I like this dress a lot better than the practice dress with the changes.  

I liked the bright print, it seemed fresh for spring. I also love the cotton lawn fabric.  It was easy to work with, drapes well, don't wrinkle as much as I expected, and is so light and breezy.  Great for the heat of the summer.

What am I doing here? I don't know, I feel like such a dork taking pictures of myself wearing clothing I made.    

The back of the dress is also gathered with the high v-neck. 

Not everything I make for myself works, but the rare occasion it does I get pretty excited about it.

If you like the dress design, this link is a pattern review website that I found useful in altering the pattern: Vogue 1086