This week's Project Run and Play's featured color is blue...which is perfect for me. Still haven't sewed many things for the puppy and some of it isn't clothing (sheets, quilt), so I'm pretty limited. And oddly, I've sewn a lot of black and white in clothing for her. The advantage of being able to impose my preferences on her while I can, I guess. And there's the blue striped PJs I just made, too. But the first article of clothing I ever sewed for her was in a deep Navy blue corduroy with daisies scattered around.
It's the basic dress from the Oliver & S Building Block Book with long sleeves, in the 6-12 month size. I'd definitely make a few changes were I to sew the same dress from the same pattern again. I added the white mini pom pom trip to the collar when I realized just how dark this dress was, and I think I'd still add it, but this time during construction and also to the sleeves, and I might add some piping at the waist. It was the first time I'd constructed a placket and I had a devil of a time with that. It doesn't sit quite right. It had to sit in the dresser for a while because I made it when she was tiny, but she grew into it in time for fall in Naples, so it's first real outing was to a Chestnut Festival in Montella, a mountain town to the west of Naples.
The 6-12 month size was a perfect fit at 16 months but she's just a bit too big for it now. Thankfully, my honorary granddaughter (child of one of my Officers from DECATUR) is a winter baby, so this will go to her next. More importantly, she was totally comfortable running and playing in the dress...hence it's slightly rumpled state.
My Puppy can be quite the charmer when the mood strikes, and it struck hard that day. She was ON. The friend I was with said, "one day we're going to take her and walk ahead while you look at the people are her and see how they react to her." Then I pulled this pic off the camera...
Italians LOVE kids, especially babies, but this kid was on fire that day, even without a nap. She engaged with anyone who would engage with her, usually with kisses and waves. I love this pic because even though the placket is a mess, you can see the buttons down the back, which come from my old button collection, which means they belonged to the Puppy's great-great-grandmother at some point. They're well-used, so probably from the 30s, maybe the 40s at the latest. They were a perfect match for the centers of the daisies.
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