Kids Clothes Week - Project Three - The Flower Dress

A few weeks ago Little Monkey spotted fabric with bright flowers printed on it and said she wanted a 'flower dress'. Oh sweetie, how can I say no when you look at me with those big blue eyes and believe that mummy can make something special for you! 

While she was sleeping, I made a new dress for my Little Monkey.



New Look 6576 was one of the first patterns I purchased when I started sewing two years ago. Every summer I turn to this pattern to make a dress for Little Monkey (you can see one in my first blog post). Last winter Little Monkey enjoyed wearing a tunic I made for her out of my grandma's corduroy. 

I may have mentioned a few times that Little Monkey especially appreciates pockets and buttons on the clothes I make her. Ta-da! Cool wooden buttons. OK, I think they are totally cool, but I was not too sure Little Monkey would share in my excitement. She said they were nice. Phew!


My husband snapped a few photos while we were getting ready to go to the Bendigo Agricultural Show. Little Monkey did not reveal her true feelings about the new dress until I suggested it was time to take it off and put a pair of pants on as it was rather cool. A few weeks ago Little Monkey decided she hated tights with a passion, however she agreed to wear them so that she could go to the show in her new dress. What? Another mummy-made dress Little Monkey approved? Whoo-hoo!



I love this simple cute dress on my daughter. I hope she will get a lot of wear out of it this season.

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  1. A great fun print and another sweet dress!

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  2. Great job, as usual :) I've said it before LM has a great taste in fabric!

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    1. Thank you Alisa :) I now let her choose fabric for things I make her. That saves a lot of drama!

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  3. Pretty and practical! Love it. And you've got matching flowers in the photos! great !

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    1. Thank you Victoria :) These flowers grow everywhere. We have a small field of them on the side of the road. it will take LM a while to pick them all hehe

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  4. Am looking at sewing blogs this evening with my son Torin, 7. He's got lots of good comments, lovely to have his company. Over to Torin: "vghfgfghhgvcccgmmjmmjhvvvnnnnnnbbnhjjhgfghjkkkkkkkllllllll" ;-)

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    1. Thank you Torin for your comment, it was great to hear your thourhgt ;)

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  5. Great bright fabric, I like the wood button with it! Great to have a pattern you know works and will feature the fabric this is a very sweet little dress :)

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    1. Thank you :) Yes, that's one of the reasons I like this pattern. it is so simple, no thrills (unless one wants to jazz it up), and it allows to feature some lovely fabric :)

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  6. Oh that fabric is lovely. She has wonderful taste! Great job.

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  7. It looks great! I agree, your little monkey has great taste in fabric! The dress looks great layered like that.

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    1. Thank you Ruth. Isn't it great to be able to layer things and get a lot of wear out of them!

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  8. Jenya, your photos are beautiful! And what a great dress....glad she approves!

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    1. Thank you Teresa :) Little Monkey doesn't hate photo-shoots as much anymore, although sometimes we need to negotiate under what conditions she is willing to be a model for mummy :)

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  9. Lovely dress and the buttons are fabulous! So nice to figure out your kids style and make things that they enjoy wearing!

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    1. Thank you Elizabeth. yes knowing what they like makes life much easier!

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  10. Love it! And it looks so adorable with those lacy leggings. :)

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  11. That fabric looks identical to what Gymboree had last spring. Where did you find it?

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    1. I bought this fabric from Lincraft last summer (Australian summer that is). What is Gymboree?

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    2. Gymboree is a kids brand of clothing or the name of the shop that carries that brand. I learnt that from little miss aged 3

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