Easter dresses

I made these two dresses out of some old dress shirts of my Dad’s.  Every time I go to my parents house I do two things, I raid their bookshelves for new books, I always bring a box full home with me, and I take any of their old clothes that are headed to DI.  I love using old clothes to experiment with.  It’s perfect since it’s free and headed for the trash anyway it’s no big deal if you mess it up, plus it’s sometimes hard to part with an old favorite shirt (at least for me anyway.  I hate to admit that I hang on to clothes for way too long in the hopes that some day it’ll be just what I’m looking for when in reality it just sits and collects dust and more dust taking up space). 

A while back a made a similar dress out of an old white button up shirt.  It was my practice one.  It turned out alright, but was never the perfect fit.  I did some tweaking to my pattern and now they’re just right. 

I made Sadie’s dragon t-shirt out of a shirt my Mom gave me.  Annie and I made up some good basic patterns, including this shirt pattern, when she was here last summer.  

Sadie’s pants are some that I made from a pair of corduroys I had.  They look so cute on her little bum.  I made these a while back and they’re getting short on her so we’ll have to retire those soon until the Pipester grows a bit.