Dresses for Cherish and an Angel

This little dress is for my precious, 

adorable, 

and in-every-way-wonderful niece Cherish.

I want to see her in it so much!

You see, it is red and white

and reminded me of 

Olivia the Pig, 

 so of course, I had to add 

some Black Rick Rack.

And,

well, 

I loved it so much,

that I had to make one for a little

girl whose tag we picked off 

the Angel Tree at First Pres. Church. 

So this one is for a precious little girl

who I will probably never meet.

And Ahnalin found this "Sonya Lee" Little Peoples set

that we had gotten for her when she was little.

But she only ever played with her wood blocks

or her babies, 

so it was still in the box.

She decided to give it to the 

little Angel Tree girl. 

I am proud of my sweetie for thinking

of this little one.

Well, and then Ahnalin

decided that she wanted a dress

JUST LIKE the dress for her
Christmas dress!!!

But, I had to shake things up a bit....

So this is just a teaser of Ahnalin's dress.......

When I fell in love with this fabric

a few years ago,

I bought the rest of the bolt!

It has been in my stash

just waiting for me to decide to cut into it.

It's Michael Miller Iron Work

and I even have enough left over 

for another dress or two!

I need to take photos of Ahnalin

in her dress before

she gets "Christmas" all over it.......

And yes, 

I did. 

I made ANOTHER Rapunzel costume!

You see, 

next summer we plan to 

visit Cherish

and her Mommy and Daddy

and Ahnalin is dying to play dress-up 

with Cherish. 

I decided to simplify Cherish's Rapunzel 

dress and chose not to use grommets for

lacing the bodice. 

The ribbon is actually sewn in place

for the sake of comfort and simplicity.

The lace overskirt used every last inch

of the purple embroidered lace.

(well, I do have a skinny bit left for a doll dress...)

I machine sewed the hem so that it would 

be sturdy for 3 year old dress-up action.

The lace is vintage hem tape

that had a price tag of 65 cents on the wrapper. 

I love using my stash goodies!

So, one of the red dresses and the little Rapunzel

dress are on their way to my precious niece 

for her birthday and Christmas.

And the other red dress and the Little People

are on their way to another little angel.

And one more red dress

will be posted in a day or so

on my wild Ahnalin.......

Next project........

I get to start on India's 

Christmas dress,

which will be made from a gorgeous

length of vintage Pendleton wool

given to me by my Hot Rockin' Hubby's 

Aunt Dona Vee. 

After that.....Christmas Jammies

and then some mittens, hats

and slippers from felted cashmere sweaters.

And......Ahnalin wanted some new
doll clothes for Christmas!
Yep, I think that Santa can fulfill
that request....

Oh fun!! 

Happy Sewing!

Sivje