Clothes for Emily

Lately I have been making clothes for Emily. Here are the fabulous results:

You may (or may not) remember my entry from last year about some fabric I had bought for Emily. I made it into the sweet jumper above. The shoulder straps were long enough to attach two sets of snaps, so that it will fit her for a while, even if she does grow soon. It also has patch pockets on the front.

Its been cold a lot recently, and Emily has play dresses that don't keep her legs warm. But her only leggings are dark pink. So I made the above red leggings to go with her red play dress. I made them from fabric from an old sweater Jeanie and I had cut up for material a while ago, so they are nice a toasty. Dan asked that I also put in a tag, so he could tell which side was the back.

The first leggings were such a success that I dug out some more fabric to make into leggings. The fabric wasn't in the right size pieces for leggings, so I worked out this cute skirt. There are little red dots on it, so it goes well with her leggings. As a bonus, I also made myself a dress from this fabric a couple years ago, so now Emily and I can have matching outfits.

I also made another pair of leggings from a T-shirt I don't think I'll ever wear. (Which I definitely won't wear it now.) It had a little pocket on the breast, which is now in the back of the leggings. So no tag is necessary. I had meant for it to be a functional pocket, but today I discovered that I had accidentally sewn most of it shut. Oh well.

Also, Emily looks upset because I won't give her the camera. Not because she just woke up. Which she did. Funny story: she was sleeping on our bed, and I had put a ring shaped rattle next to her while looking for the camera cord. She sort of woke up, grabbed the rattle, and rolled back onto her back. Which she usually does when she wants to play with things. Only, she wasn't very awake, and she fell back asleep, relaxing her grip and dropping the rattle on her head. Then she woke up and laughed.