Cadie and Chloe’s Easter Dresses sewn from an Ottobre Design Pattern

This is a real accomplishment for me – my girls’ Easter dresses were done 2 weeks before Easter! Last year they were barely done on time. (but I did give you a Shrug Pattern}

The sweet folks at OrganicCottonPlus.com provided most of the fabric for the dresses and offered my readers a giveaway of any two yards from their shop! The giveaway widget is at the end of this post.

The fabric I picked is Lunada Bay organic cotton voile (so fine and pretty), with a solid version of the same voile for the dress linings.

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As I wrote in my first blog post about these dresses, I used pattern #27 from Ottobre Design issue 03/2012. The front and back of the dresses are covered in little tucks. Not pintucks that I could sew with a special sewing machine foot, but 5mm tucks that had to be measured, marked, pressed, and sewn one at a time. But I loved the process. I love the fact that my girls are wearing truly unique dresses made by me. And I’m very grateful to my husband for putting the kids in bed many nights while I de-stressed in front of my sewing machine sewing those tucks.

Chloe’s dress is size 156 (European sizing), the largest size that this pattern comes in. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when at first she thought the shape was too little-girly for her. But I pulled this skinny turquoise belt out of my closet and it worked perfectly to give the dress a more grown-up feel.

Cadie’s dress is size 116 and she loves the flowy, twirly shape.

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