Andrea's New Sun Dress

Andrea started working on this dress in May. She wanted to make it all by herself. Andrea picked out the pattern and fabric and all the notions needed to complete her project.She cut out each pattern piece. I helped her lay out the pattern pieces on the fabric and she pinned each piece then cut it out. Andrea asked a couple of times for help when she got tired. It took a month of working on it here and there just to finish cutting the pattern.


In June as school was ending Andrea started to sew the pieces together. She ran into a little trouble with the bottom. It was suppose to be orange like the top part, but a miss-cut lead to not enough of the orange fabric. We went to the store to get more only that color was gone. So Andrea choose the green instead.

The flower- Had to have the flower of course.

Andrea finished it today .I think it came out great! Andrea made 95% of this dress. I helped with the flower and I sewed in the zipper. She hoped to have it for a summer sundress. She'll have to settle for wearing it to school with a sweater over it. I hope that she will attempt to make the matching jacket. Time will tell.

Andrea age 8 1/2 (can't forget the 1/2 though, She'll be 9 in a month)