My creative space: baby pinafore dress

Sorry about the grainy phone pic.

My friend's gorgeous little girl turned one last weekend which was a perfect opportunity to do some cute girl sewing - something that I don't get to do all that often (not to say that I don't enjoy making lots of groovy pants but a change is always good)

The pattern for this apron pinafore dress is from Issue 1/2012 of Ottobre magazine.  It has lots of cool patterns for kids clothes from babies through to bigger kids and even though most of the patterns are a bit complicated for me at the moment, it's a good source of inspiration.

I decided to stay away from pink and went with some denim that got from the op shop for the outside and a blue spotty quilting cotton for the inside.  I made the pocket and bias tape using one of the lovely vintage sheets that I received in this swap. A couple of blue flower buttons from my stash and it was done.  This pattern doesn't say that it is reversible but I guess that it could easily be made that way by adding some more buttons on the inside. 

It's only one pattern piece (if you don't count the pocket) so it went together easily, the only tricky part was sewing the on binding especially those tight curves round the straps. A really fun project.

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