Easter dresses 2013

Sunday, March 31

I am not a big fan of Easter in March - mostly because it means less time for me to work on the Easter dresses for my girls!  This year I bought the fabric way back in February, but I always seem to be making a mad dash to get them finished up by Easter morning.  M&M did a good chunk of work on her own dress this year, but it was a very difficult pattern - especially the bodice - and we didn't like the sleeve so we used a sleeve piece from another pattern and tried to make it fit the dress.  She got many compliments on her dress at church.  I found the fabric for the younger girls' dresses in the clearance aisles at the fabric store.  MJ and Kay's dresses were the same in a different color fabric and the same for Kitty and Blondie.  And Kitty and Blondie's dresses were a pretty hard pattern too that took a lot of fabric and had many layers.  M&M had a hard time finding some fabric that she liked and then ended up loving the one that we finally picked.

MJ was in no mood for having her picture taken when we came home from church, as you can tell from the pictures.

This picture was taken during the Easter egg hunt, not right after church with the rest of them.  After she wore this on Easter I ended up shortening the dress about 3 more inches.  It looked cute long, but she almost ripped the skirt from the bodice from trying to get up and down the stairs and onto chairs.  It was so long that she kept stepping on it and kneeling on it.

If you look closely, the ribbon along the top of these dresses is actually made into little bows all along the top.  It took a little while to do it and decide if we liked it.

We added some of the contrast fabric at the top of the dress to create some contrast between M&M's skin and the dress. I think it really helped to tie the colors together.