Pillowcase Dress!

Cameron, Brylee, Carson

Today is my niece's birthday. She is turning the big 3! Yay!

She is the most adorable little girl, and I wanted to make sure

that she had an adorable little dress

to go with her big personality. So I made her a pillowcase dress.

Normally you would use an actual pillowcase to make this dress,

but I decided to make a paneled dress. So I kind of made my own pillowcase, 

and then made the dress. Wooh!

Maybe I should of just found a pillowcase. 

Just Kidding. . .it was so worth it!

I used 5 different patterns of fabric for this dress. And there 

are 16 panels all around the dress.

The strip I made for the bottom of the dress is much longer than I

 anticipated it to be, so I hemmed it 

afterwards, and made it shorter.

I was going to give the step-by-step instructions on how to make it,

but I decided that would be a really long post, and well, Yah. It would be a really

long post, like I said before.

Once again the dress turned out longer than I anticipated, but I hemmed it later on!

Edit on May 2, 2012:

Here is the hemmed up version, and

with Brylee wearing her new dress.

And of course with a wide grin!

If anyone is interested in me making one for them, contact me

at betsy.brogren@washburn.edu, or make

a comment on this post with your email, and I can contact you.

Happy Birthday Brylee!

Sunflower Progress:

Just over a week ago I planted sunflowers along my fence-line.

Click here to view that post >>> Sunflowers

And now they are starting to sprout. Yay!

I will keep you posted on how they progress, if I can keep the bunnies from nibbling on them!

Any suggestions on how to keep them away from the sunflowers?

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