Archive for the 'Dresses' Category


Where Did Summer Go?

Looking at all of the beautiful flowers in everyone’s gardens, it’s hard to realize that we’re mid-way through  the last month of summer! Where did it go? It seems like it was just spring and everyone was excitedly anticipating the arrival of summer-  I remember as a child, I thought the year was divided into [...]

SPRING

Spring is officially here! Many of the bulbs in my garden are in full bloom right now, like these Freesias. If you’ve ever smelled Freesias you know how wonderfully sweet they can make your garden smell. With flowers, gardens, and spring everywhere, comes the desire to cast off the heavy, warm, winter clothes, and slip [...]

Air Time for Me

So, to steal a few minutes back from Pascal~ In my last post I wanted to give you a preview of the dress that I’m working on, but, as I explained then, Pascal has this way of dominating my thoughts, hence my blog! Since I’m ready to sew the dress pieces together, I thought I [...]

Hand-Smocked Long Dress size 4L

If having a long dress in a size 4 interests you, I recommend  taking a look at my first one in the shop. The cotton-poly fabric is a beautiful shade of lavender. I’ve hand-smocked the design in lavender embroidery floss with a few of the rows smocked in white. Any little girl would fall in [...]

Introducing a New Dress Length

After filling a few special orders where customers requested their dress be made longer so that it could be worn as a long dress, instead of the short dress it’s designed to be, I decided to start offering some of the dresses in the two larger sizes, size 3 and 4, in a longer length. [...]

Picture Pretty – Dress #409

This page moved > see more images or buy the  dress Several rows of white, hand-smocked diamonds frame a beautiful, hand-embroidered summer country scene in soft hues of green, purple, blue, and yellow. A little girl, out for a walk with her dog, stops to explore a birdhouse and chat with its owner who happens to [...]

Meadow Flowers – Dress #408

This page moved > see more images or buy the dress Rabbit ties her pink sweater around her neck as she walks into a flower-filled, cotton meadow to find her friends. She is surrounded by rows of white, diamond smocking, accented in deep violet. A little hand-embroidered bird stands on a rock while he waits [...]

Chicks and Daisy Chains – Dress #407

This page moved > see more images or buy the dress Just hatched!  Two baby chicks wander around a field of blue and white striped cotton amidst rows of embroidered daisy chains. They’re off to see the world. Following zig-zag rows of blue and white smocking, they search for a little girl to befriend. Includes [...]

Walking in the Flowers – Dress #406

This page moved > see more images or buy the dress A little girl in her pink and white dress walks with her little white dog in their garden filled with pink flowers. The fabric is a beautiful seafoam blue-grey with a white floral print. The scene is centered between several intricately designed rows of [...]

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