KIDS CLOTHES WEEK - DAY 5

It's Kids Clothes Week!!! You probably know the rules by now: sew 1 hour a day for 7 days! This season, the theme (non mandatory) is "Recycle". Although I would love the opportunity to do some recycling again the truth is I don´t currently have any clothes that I could re-use. This is normally good - I love the fact that in our new house we only have the things that we actually need, nothing more nothing less - but in this case it would be real fun to make some refashion again. As such, this time I could not follow the theme. 

Anyway, although I have been able to sew around an hour each day I haven't been able to accomplish a lot. Also, my girl is sick, with a bug in her tummy, so I wasn't able to get her to try her new skirt and take pictures. Luckily I bought a dress form a week a go and it arrived just in time for me to show Teresa's new skirt. Here it is:

I did not use any pattern this time. I saw a similar skirt in a girl on Instagram and I though it was just too cute and easy to put together. Basically, it is a gathered skirt with a waistband with elastic in the back. 

In my opinion, the cutest details are the braces and the wood buttons.

I used a lightweight denim from Joann's. It is very soft... and that's it! Simple, easy and quick to sew. By the way the top is the Hemlock Top that I made a couple of months ago. You can check it here. In here I  love it! I am hoping Teresa loves it too. 

THE HEMLOCK TOP

I am not a big fan of dressing by girl with sweatshirts… I prefer tunics and dresses, even for her to take to pre-school. She is very girly and is always asking me to dress her with dresses, so we're happy like this. But when I first saw the Hemlock Top I completely fell for it. It can be a sweatshirt but it has ruffles... so, it is not just a sweatshirt, it is “The” sweatshirt! I love E&E patterns! I have sewed a couple of Bohemian babydoll dress that I adore (I will be making a post about these in a few days ;-)).

Anyway when I saw the pattern, I instantly knew what I wanted to sew: a tiny floral knit print with the ruffles in white cotton... but I was not able to find the knit I wanted in my local shop :-( so I had to stick with stripes. Here it is:

I really like how it turned out! The top is very easy to put together and since this was my second time working with knits (you can see my version of the Aster Cardigan here), I think it was a good decision. The fit was ok (not perfect in the collar...) and I think Teresa likes it.

I managed to find two beautiful (I hope... with online shopping you never really know) floral knit prints and I and definitely going to try more versions of this top. This is definitely a pattern to repeat in my quest to dominate knits! :-)