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The 30-minute Frock

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So, I finally packed up all my maternity clothes (holla!) and stored them away for maybe another year or two or well, who really knows 🙂  Anyways now that my closet full of clothes is all mine again, I was dying to make something for myself to spruce up the ‘ol wardrobe.  
I am seriously contemplating this frock from Grosgrain (BTW, I just love the word ‘Frock’ don’t you?  I’m totally going to use this word all the time now, I love it!)  It looks easy enough, I think…but, alas I was really needing a sewing fix the other day and decided to make myself a simple shirt instead.  Well, that shirt didn’t go so well.  I don’t have any pictures to share and I totally wish I did cause it was all 80’s-long-skinny-tank-with-your-bra-sides-totally-showing bad.  Well, it’s probably better that I don’t have any pictures.  Ahem, just imagine a summer tank-style shirt with the arm holes so big that they are halfway down the side of the shirt.  No Good.  Complete Fail.  I was so sad cause I loved the fabric I chose for it, a pretty Indian-inspired knit…lovely, just lovely.  But I only bought a yard of it and there wasn’t enough left to try again, boo for me!  It was headed for the scraps pile when I thought maybe I could somehow salvage it for Penny.  So, she tried it on, I took it in a bit and VOILA, we have this:
{The 30-minute Summer Frock}
I really love what a little revising can do to a mess-up 🙂
Oh, and did you see what I did there?  Yup, that’s me using the word ‘Frock’…told you I love that word, and I told you I was going to use it all the time.  You better watch out cause it’s going to be all over my blog. Word to your muth-ah!  Okay, probably not really, but I sooo love that word, it’s so much prettier than saying ‘dress’ or ‘garment’.  Please agree. 
Okay peeps, onwards we go.  So, this little frock is a pretty, long summer-y dress.  Kinda like a maxi-dress for little girls…LOVE it!  The knit fabric is perfect for it cause it let’s it drape nicely on the body.  Let’s just take a look-see on my little model:
Ahh, lovely!
And comfortable!  
See, playing outside couldn’t be more fun (and stylish!)

Even jumping is a breeze…

I think somebody is happy this didn’t go in the scrap bin 🙂
(Okay, so that makes two of us!!)
So, I didn’t do a tutorial of this but if you’d like one let me know…
Have a great Friday!

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    8. Maxabella says

      Happiness in a frock, I say! I like the one over at Grosgrain. Nothing ever looks ‘not too hard’ to me. I’m so hopeless at sewing, but I plough on regardless. On the weekend I finally started an actual garment and it’s going… not so well. But, I will perserve!
      x