{"id":26,"date":"2018-07-05T23:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T23:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/?p=26"},"modified":"2018-11-11T05:46:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T05:46:25","slug":"two-twirly-dresses-for-dora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/2018\/07\/05\/two-twirly-dresses-for-dora\/","title":{"rendered":"Two twirly dresses for Dora"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Little<\/a>
Twirl!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My daughter, Dora, loves a good twirly dress. I’ve made her a ton of dresses, but I’ve noticed she doesn’t like to wear wovens that much. She prefers stretchy dresses that don’t have zippers or ties to deal with. Now that I have my serger, I’m much more confident about sewing with knits, so it’s been really fun to try to make her stuff she’ll love to wear.<\/p>\n

Looking for a simple, twirly pattern for knits, I found the Bella Sunshine Designs Sahara dress<\/a> (which also comes in a women’s version<\/a>). It’s a lined bodice and a very full circle skirt, and you can add sleeves or make it into a tunic if you prefer. There’s also a free pockets add-on, which I absolutely should have used, but, as always, I was staying up way too late to work on this dress and ended up just skipping them in order to get the dresses finished.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>
You can tell she likes the dress because she chose it for her much-anticipated preschool graduation, including a very animated poem recitation. Accessorized with a pair of cowboy boots from Target. No idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This pattern turned out to be a big winner. I made the first version in a slightly stretchy pink satin pulled from the Joann remnant bin. I lined the bodice with a horrible white knit from my stash and added an underskirt out of a yellow satiny something I’ve had for years. I hemmed the overskirt slightly higher than the underskirt, just to show off the yellow.<\/p>\n

I made the dress in a size 8, even though my daughter is 5, because the pink satin wasn’t super-stretchy and I like to leave room for D to grow. So I was surprised to find that the bodice is actually way too tight. She still wears it, because she loves it, but she needs help pulling it on and off.<\/p>\n

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Twirling in to summer camp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’d planned to make the next version in a ridiculously shiny silver stretch fabric (another remnant bin find), but discovered three-quarters of the way through cutting the skirt that there was no way I was going to have enough fabric for the whole thing. So the skirt is a blue knit that matches the bodice lining. Having learned my lesson, I cut the bodice in a size 10 and just shortened the straps by an inch, and the fit is perfect. She’s already worn it twice since it came off the sewing machine.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
So hard to get her to stand still for a photo. She’s listening to an audiobook of The Boxcar Children, her current obsession.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s really fun to have an opinionated kid to sew for. Next, she has requested purple shorts, with lots of pockets, and a pair of purple overalls. (Violet, from\u00a0The Boxcar Children<\/em>, always wears purple.) I have the fabric for those all set, but she’s going to have to wait ’till I finish my own Vogue 9253<\/a>. I’m trying to alternate between sewing for her and sewing for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dresses-for-kids","tag-bsdsahara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}