The fruits of my labor.  The urchins now have clothes to warm their little bodies when the weather turns frigid and cold.  Of course, this past week or so summer decided to arrive.  Finally.  Of course I was holed up in my dining room sewing up a storm and drafting patterns left and right.  I wasn’t happy with the fit of all of them and had to do some “modifications” so they wouldn’t fall off, but in the end they are cute.  I have a few more dresses I made for Anya, but I don’t have pictures of them yet.  I’ll get to it, but for now this is what I have.

Cross front dress in knit with minky on the arms and collar.  It has a pair of matching leggings.  I designed this dress to be a comfy play dress, so I didn’t want it to be overly long.

Another cross front dress.  This has a heavier knit for the main body and then a featherweight knit for one arm and the ruffle.  I made a ruffle on the matching leggings, too.

This is a soft mini-whale corduroy fabric.  I love the feel of this fabric and it has a nice drape to it.  This dress is one I designed as sleeveless during the summer, so I just added sleeves to it.  I have a bit of pretty lace at the ruffle line.

This is another corduroy dress with the same type of nice fabric as the dress above.  I drafted it a bit too wide, so I added a channel at the neckline for elastic along the front (the top part is fully lined).  I cut off a few inches from the back and added a not-so-invisible zipper.  I only had a light pink one on hand and I should have really had a darker different color.  This is really, really twirly with 22.5 ft on the bottom 2 layers.

These leggings match the two dresses above

Isn’t this little jacket cute??  I wanted to make Anya just a little throw on sweater type jacket that she can wear around when it gets a bit cool.  Again, I made it a bit wider than I should have (apparently she just grew taller and not outward at all!).  I really like the little flounce in the back.  The fabric is nice and soft on both sides.

Now for Kailan…

Go Packers!!  Amazing that you can find Packer fabric when you aren’t in Wisconsin.  This is a nice warm fleece outfit perfect for tailgating and showing your green and gold pride. 🙂

Another very soft fleece outfit.  These outfits are all from patterns, too.  The raglan tops are from Ottobre and the pants are just from one of the big pattern companies.  I added the pocket on the front and back pockets to the bottoms.

Another outfit from the big pattern company.  I just added cuffs to the top and bottoms and then I drew up a horse head, cut it out and appliqued it to the top.  The bottoms are a plush warm fleece and the top is knit.

I really like how this one turned out.  The pants are the same one I used for his shorts this summer, only I made them longer (just stating the obvious!).   The fabric is a heavy canvas, with a woven elastic waist and faux fly.  The back pockets are from the woven which is a print with different bears on it.  The top is a tan butter soft fleece with a camo knit.

 This little jacket/fleeceshirt is from a pattern, but I added elastic to the back since it was a bit too wide.  I also added one of my drawings to the back that I printed on a fabric sheet I bought at Michael’s.  I couldn’t really iron it on, because that would melt the fleece.  I gave it a light iron and then stitched it on.

Well, that’s it for now.  I feel all productive and everything, but I have really neglected my e-mail and blogs and internet surfing this past week.  I tried to stay away from my computer and just have my nose to the grindstone.  I have two more things I made for Anya that I have to take pictures of yet, and a few more outfits cut out and ready to sew.  Hopefully I will get those made up by next week.