"Is Christmas Fun or What?"

I bought this fabric from a buy/sell/trade group that I am a part of and when I saw it, I just knew that it was going to become my Christmas Dress. Well, turns out it was just enough for a Christmas skirt and an adorable little a-line dress for my baby girl.

 

 

I loved the border print of this Mary Engelbreit fabric. It's from her "Isn't Christmas Jolly" line.

 

 

It's so fun and festive! The colors are so bright and vibrant. I love the little candies that are made to look like flowers and the polka dots and stars.

 

Of course, the candy shapes on the fabric just begged to be made into covered buttons. I also handpicked this zipper. That seems to be my preferred way to do them now. I cannot sew a zipper in by machine to save my life. Well I'm sure I could if it were a life or death situation, but seriously, it is always a disaster and I end up ripping it out at least 3 times before I just give up. I think I need to take a zipper class next year!

 

 

This skirt has almost 4 yards of fabric gathered into it dirndl style! I don't normally do dirndl skirts because I'm a bit of a rectangle/pear shape and that much fabric in the waistline tends to make me look much larger than I am. Of course due to the border print, I didn't have many options. I thought about pleating the waistline, but I was short on time, literally decided to make this skirt the night before I needed to wear it to a company Christmas gathering. So I decided to keep it simple and pair it with a black sweater in order to make it as slimming as possible.

 

I'm really glad I didn't do a dress though because seriously, with this pattern all over, it would have been way too much, even for me, and you know my motto is; "Too much is never enough!"

 

I made this dress for my baby girl's first Christmas. I actually completed this first because I still hadn't decided if I was brave enough to wear the fabric myself. It's just a simple A-Line jumper, with cute little covered buttons at the shoulder. I can't wait to see her toddle up to the tree, she just started walking, in this dress and her tights with her little red glittered shoes. It's going to just be perfect. I'm looking forward to getting pictures of the both of us in our Christmas finery.

 

Thanks for reading!