A Pumpkin for Your Pumpkin

We are very excited to give a peek of one of the new dresses that will be in my shop within a week for fall! Can you see the excitement on Caroline's face? This dress is made out of teal-colored jersey so it is supersoft and it has trim and a pumpkin applique is in a cotton print by Erin McMorris. I have at least 3 more similar dresses coming in organic orange, purple, and chocolate-colored jersey and they will be in slightly different styles. The comfy style of these dresses is perfect for playing and heading back to school on crisp fall days. What do you think?

Biker Chick

Every year I make the girls each a dress for their birthdays; this tradition began with Kate's first birthday. Since Caroline is in love with bikes right now, I thought that it would be fun to incorporate a bike somehow into her birthday dress. I had been keeping a look out for a cute bike print but wasn't seeing anything that seemed right for her. While reading the Etsy Merchandising Notes for June, I saw the mention of the Tour de France--aha! I decided to combine Caroline's dress with a little shop merchandising and make a yellow dress in honor of the Tour leader's yellow jersey. I should have made a trike applique since Caroline loves her little Kettler but decided to go with a girl's bike, complete with banana seat. I used Amy Butler's Love print for the bike applique. After lots of different sketches and putting it together initially with little rick rack handle streamers, I discarded that detail for a simple outline. I'm really pleased with how it came out and was delighted to see how excited Caroline was this morning when she tried it on for pictures. Unfortunately the photos came out pretty dark, but with a better forecast on the horizon for this weekend's weather, my fingers are crossed for a better photoshoot within the next few days.

I'm continuing my sporting theme, and will have a new dress to show in the next couple of days...