Dragons and Patchwork

The latest batch of Calliope clothing included a romper and a slip-over dress.

I've had so much fun messing around with the McCall's 2213 pattern for an infant dress. This incarnation sprung from a pile of leftover scrap fabric from another project. I pieced them into a patchwork yard or so of solid material and then cut out the dress pattern from that. Adding a white linen lining helped with all of the raw edges on the wrong side of the fabric.


Next was my first "big girl" romper, which means no snaps along the inside of the legs. Oh how I love the Burda patterns especially since they've started adding in the seam allowance. No more fiddling with adding 5/8" all around the edges of things and fretting about whether or not the allowance is even. Burda 9652 is an awesome sleeveless romper which most importantly can be adapted to a pedal-pusher length. After watching Isaac try to walk with his pants pooled around his ankles I have been trying to find an attractive way to get pants to the proper length. For a girl-style the capri works. For boys I need to experiment with having a buttonholed tab and a row of a few buttons to adjust height. My favorite part of this outfit: the thick white cotton tassels along the leg bottoms. They were taken from two hand towels found at a thrift store. The dragon part? Well, the fabric reminds me of a Chinese New Year dragon.

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Number of eggs laid in the coop today: 2
Number of eggs laid in the woods today: 0