Here is Anya’s Holiday outfit.  She will be wearing it much, and it should hopefully fit her next year, too.  It was made from three different colors of duiponi silk that I bought on sale at 50%/60% off.  Yay!  Silks vary in their degree of fraying.  The blue one was really bad in the fraying department and it is the softest one of the three.  I just had to watch it and the hems are all serged.

The bodice has the three different colors.  I have runching and pintucking and yo-yo’s to decorate it.  It is lined, as well, and has covered buttons in the back.  The straps were originally too long so I just sewed them up on the top of the shoulder.  If I need to lower them eventually it shouldn’t be difficult at all.    The skirt has all three colors and is fairly full.  The silk ruffled exceedingly well on the serger.  It actually ruffled too much so I really had to be careful that I had enough fabric.  I could have made the skirt fuller rather easily.  Oh well, too late now!

I made some pants to go underneath the dress, and I’ll just put a cream shirt underneath, too.   I have a hard time with dresses in the wintertime since I want her to be warm.  The silk is like wearing AIR so I knew that wasn’t going to be warm at all.  I wanted to line the pants, but I didn’t have anything on hand.  I’ll just have to put tights on underneath or something.

Hopefully I will have pictures of her wearing it this week, since tonight is their Holiday Program for daycare.  We’ll see if they actually sing this time. 😀