Teal Heirloom Dress

The week just prior to Blakelyn's Baptism, I took a sewing class.  I had taken an Heirloom sewing class last year when I was 6 weeks pregnant. Since I didn't know the gender of the baby, nor were we telling anyone we were pregnant at the time, I made a dress to put into my "hope chest" in hopes of one day having a girl to put into this dress:

Whew good thing we had a girl first!  

I thought this would be the only dress I would make for my daughter... however, once Blakelyn was born I knew I wanted to make many more.  Since Blakelyn has red hair, she looks fantastic in blue!!, I thought I would make a teal color as well.  That and last year another woman made a teal dress that I just LOVED.  The colors teal and blue both bring out Blakelyn's blue eyes and compliment her hair color and skin tone.  

I just love my recessive baby!!  

Finished product:

Sleeve:

I'll put a cream ribbon through the beading lace.

Yoke:

Fancy Band:

Back placket:

I received two heirloom pins for Christmas that I can use to fasten it.

My model:

A tad bit too big!

Of course all she wanted to do was play with it and pull it up to expose her belly.

Not sure if I'll have a dress wearer or not, but hopefully when she is 1.5 or 2 years old she'll at least fit into it.

You might be asking how did I make this dress with a baby. 

The Baby Bjorn:

I was able to bring Blakelyn with me everyday.  I had her swing with me and the owner of the store graciously offered to watch her while I sewed.  When the store got busy I would wear Blakelyn.

Blakelyn loved looking around and watching everyone sew.  She also enjoyed the soothing hum of all the sewing machines.

Naturally I would have to feed Blakelyn so often during the day, enter the hooter hider I made.

At least my boobs were covered up, the rest of me and her, well not so much with a wiggle worm.

Not sure if this counts as rolling over or not, but many times I would find Blakelyn like this:

It counts for me!