Thursday, July 2, 2009

My 1 Yard Wonder!

Butterick 4176 is a keeper! Sizes 2-5 and 6-8, it's wonderful for many reasons. It was super fast (no facings, just bias tape for the neck and arm holes), no zipper (1 button closure in the back), it's a wardrobe (shorts, pants, top, dress, and sleeves are optional), and loose fitted (comfy kids = happy kids). I'm planning on making more of view D as nightgowns for Little Miss Princess and as gifts for her friends.

The fabric is from Gorgeous Fabrics ("Flower Power" and it's on sale right now for $6.32/yd! Run! Run! Run!), just 1 yard of 45 wide (with enough left to cut two 1" strips and make my own bias, but not on the bias)! It's got some stretch in it, but I bought it for the bright floral print. It just screamed "Summertime" to me. 1 package of rick-rack will get you around the hem, and if you want, you'll have enough to trim the neckline, too. I dug through my buttons and found some to match the rick-rack, so I placed them center front in the same order. Look at the top photo closely, you'll see them! Here's the back neck line with the button closure.
If you have a little girl in your life, this pattern is beyond "fast and easy", as advertised!

9 comments:

gwensews said...

This is a very sweet little dress. I'm glad to see someone using ric-rac. I love it. Always have. Nice job!

JoanneM said...

Beautiful. And I also love ric- rac!

Antoinette said...

Thanks for the recommendation! I've got twin girls (not mine) to sew dresses for and a yard each of cute coordinating fabric. I'll check out this pattern.

Adrienne said...

Very cute!!!

Julia said...

That's great! I have 4 little girls in my life. I will have to check on getting that pattern. That fabric is summertime personified!

Bunny said...

Darling! It's great to have those quickie, cute patterns in your tool box.

angie.a said...

How cute is that? I loved patterns like that for Lu because they were so fast and you could dress them up and down easily. And you just can't beat 1 yard!!

Another cutie for 1 yard...I did a 1 yard twirly skirt tutorial on PR years ago. I might have blogged it?? I'll have to see and link it up in the tutorial section. Otherwise, it's one of my first PR reviews.

Dawn said...

I love the rick rack. I have a whole box of it. Hmmmm . . .

Summerset said...

Super, super cute! The rick-rack is perfect and is just the right pop of color.