A dress for my daughter! (Am really proud of this one)

THANK YOU to everyone who replied in my last post. For those of you who signed in with your blog id, I ended up visiting your blogs and looking at your creations and yep, finally got inspired to try this. So big big thanks for helping me re-discover my sewing mojo.

A few months back, the beautiful Button Beauty gave me some gorgeous japanese fabric. I have been wanting to make something really special with it. Anyway, so finally I got up the nerve to do a major project with it. My daughter had a dress that was her absolute favourite dress. Unfortunately, it got ripped irreparably, so using the old dress as the template and inspiration (plus my love of 50s style clothing), I made this for her:



Though she really prefers the ribbon down:



From this creation, I re-used:

• the white fabric and zipper (from her old ripped dress) and
  
• the thread was from an op shop

The headband consists of me sewing a fabric tube and slipping it over an older headband. I then raided my mother's odds and ends stash (she keeps some wonderful things) and found some fake flowers which I twined on to the headband for her.

Anyway, I'm really pleased with how this turned out. More so, 'cause my daughter's verdict is that its "even better than the old dress".

I am now in the mood to sew more stuff! Ideas for a 4 year old Super Hero/Wiggle boy would be most welcome.

Edited to add: I've posted about reusable menstrual products over at Simple Green Frugal Co-op Blog! Eeek! I hope I haven't grossed people out too much...