When I saw that
Project Run and Play was getting ready to hold auditions, I knew I had to come up with something for it, since I haven't sewn anything but pajamas in recent history and it is a dream of mine to compete on it. So many ideas went through my mind. I considered dress up dresses of all kinds including using a scalloped vintage apron pattern as part of the skirt.
Then I decided to go with something more everyday wearable. My sister gave me a little bit of vintage fabric for my birthday. I thought it might be enough for a skirt and I remembered Laurel's outfit she wore for her party. It was an overall dress with a long sleeve shirt and leggings, super cute! That was just the right thing. First, I was going to use an overall pattern and turn it into a dress, but I didn't quite like how I pictured it would turn out. So next I remembered one of my
Ottobre Designs had what I thought were overalls, but they were pants with suspenders. I almost started with that and worked it into a jumper, but again it wasn't quite right. So I decided to see what I could find on
pinterest (nothing) and then google images. Finally, I found the perfect pattern and it was a free tutorial!
It was Untrendy Life's
Stitch In Color Summer Dress! I paired a fun whale fabric with turquoise. Instead of binding, I used orange jumbo ric rac. Her tutorial was really easy to follow, except I was a little confused on what size to cut the front, so it is fairly narrow. I might seam rip it and redo it later, but knowing me, probably not.
For the shirt underneath, I used
Violette Field Threads' pattern
Elise Shirt. It is a great pattern, because it is super simple and has so many options. I was going to make leggings to and even cut some out, but when I tried the shirt on Eleanor, I decided that more color would be too much.
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| She was startled by the popcorn popper being turned on. |
Over all, I love how this outfit turned out and Eleanor does too. She calls it her princess dress.
