Sunday 9 September 2007

Reversible Pinafore Dress

Here's the latest knit pinafore dress shown both ways. The hem is straighter than it looks in the photo. It was a bit windy on the day. The brown side isn't quite as well finished as I simply turned up the hem and sewed it that way. I couldn't think of a way to do the hem that was reversible. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. Louisa will no doubt be wearing it her favourite way - with the pink stripes of course. I didn't topstitch the bodice as I did with the green dress. I tried it, but this fabric stretched and looked afwul, so I quickly threw that away and did a new bodice which looks fine without it.

6 comments:

Austysmum said...

The dresses look great, and it looks like you have quite a little poser there - such a sweet face.

thehummingcat said...

Louisa looks beautiful! Lovely spring dress.

Heids said...

Love the chocolate brown colour and I think the pink "trim" of the hem looks good. If you did want to do it another way, I would probably have turned both up inside, ironed and top done two rows of top stitch. (Not sure if it would have worked though, particularly with the stretch fabric)

Anonymous said...

What a little model. The dress is gorgeous and so is her hair! Honestly whenever I see pics of her I am so jealous of those gorgeous locks.

Marie said...

Very cute dress. I think heids idea would work (you could put strips of interfacing to stabilise the hemline). Even a double hem would work I think.

Little Munchkins said...

Louisa is such a beautiful little girl. I love seeing photos of her.

That dress is great, I want to sew one too for DD. Just need to find the time.