Keeping my daughter clothed has become a challenge as she’s been going through numerous growth spurts lately. Currently, she’s in rather desperate need of summer clothes. I hesitate to buy an entire wardrobe for her because it’s costly, and the way she’s growing lately she’ll have outgrown them in the next week!! So for now, she has the requisite shorts and t-shirts for summer wear, but not much else.
For my birthday, in March, my husband’s grandmother was gracious enough to give me a gift card to a local fabric store. This gift card has been sitting on my nightstand since then, dying for me to use it. I didn’t have any particular projects in mind, but I had an afternoon to myself so I went shopping. While I was in the fabric store, I saw this patterned cotton, and it SCREAMED at me to be made into a dress for my daughter. Since I’m not one to deny the wishes of screaming fabric, I brought it home with me. The fabric retails for $9.99/yard. While it wasn’t the most inexpensive yard of fabric, I was shopping with a gift card, and had a 40% off coupon, combined, this made it a much more palatable purchase at $5.99/yard.
Armed with a vision, and my sewing machine, I set to work. After two hours of very interrupted sewing (answering the never ending call of “MOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!”), this was the end result.
I was quite proud of the final product, and for $5.99 my daughter has a brand new dress, and I have enough fabric left over to make her a matching headband, and a matching dress for her doll.
This similar dress retails at $40.
Overall, for $5.99 (but free to me because I used my gift card) and a little bit of time spent in my sewing room, I’m calling it a success!
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