Sew Pretty!

I was so busy trying to get gifts purchased, events gone to, gifts wrapped, food prepared that my latest craft was a hurried project. And that's why there are no before or during pictures of it! I bought most of the materials early enough but I didn't have the right color of thread to even start on the project. I wanted to make a t-shirt dress for my 4 year old niece, miss T for Christmas. I've done a few very simple sewing projects before but it had been a while since my machine had some major issues that needed to be fixed. I finally was able to get the machine into a repair shop so it's back in working order just in time for me to work on the Christmas gift for my niecey! I was pretty nervous that I was going to mess it up so badly that I'd have to go buy another dress to take it's place. With a couple measurements and combining several different craft/sewing blog tutorials to make the dress I invisioned, I started out. I had an aqua long sleeved girls t-shirt that I cut the bottom of the shirt of at the point it would hit at my niece's waist. I cut the bottom off of a 2 XL ladies mock turtleneck shirt the length that would hit to below her knees and stitched the two together. Using the piece I cut off from the girls t-shirt, I made three rosettes on the skirt. And cutting out a flower shape from the ladies shirt left over, I appliqued by hand the piece to the shirt part of the dress. I was so happy when I finished and it actually looked decent (not perfect but I wasn't expecting it to)! But the best part of this whole experience was when miss T opened the present and said "It's beautiful!" I am so blessed to have 5 nieces in my life to do girly things with and for since I wasn't able to have a girl of my own!