Hello Hive
Making children's outfit is one of the challenging work I have found around the fashion industry.
Larger adults clothes are kind of easy for me to handle while the small measurement for children clothes makes everything looks so small.
Imagine making a year old baby's dress and you have a sleeve length of 2inches and possibly waist 15 and the likes, its really small and you squeeze your fingers to hold them properly.
My sis just put to bed and gave me a bouncing baby niece, she wants me to make a dress for this below a year old baby, though am willing to try it but I decided to practice more of children's cloth using her older sister first.
I made an off shoulder dress with a cut together sleeve and low back neckline.
The fabric is not that attractive or one with those lovely colors I admire so it took me awhile to decide on design will bring out the best out of the fabric.
And this is what I have been able to do so far even though i started this work yesterday.
The cutting and sewing part is completed remaining a single aspect the embroidery part.
Making a dress is one thing while adding embroidery and flowers to give it a perfect finishing touches is another aspect entirely.
Am still thinking of which color of flowers to use and all that. Blue brown or cream as seen on the fabric?
Which color do you suggest?
Here is my working pattern, with both the back and front block together
And here is the work in progress sewing and the rest of them.
Note that most of this African print fabrics have to be lined and the upper bodice needs interfacing to keep the fabric firm on the body.
Would you like to enjoy some photoshoot, my baby stood as a model even though she is a novice and can't even give me the best posture, meanwhile she has thesame measurement as her my niece and they can wear each others cloth.
I guess I did a good job with this fabric or what do you think?