The Poppy Dress – By: A Lemon Squeezy Home
A few days ago I was sitting down to make R a hat, when I came across this amazing tutorial to make a “Poppy Dress” for little girls by Christie at Lemon Squeezy Home. I was immediately side tracked reading through her tutorial. It is so great and the dress is so simple!
So here is my dress and my little model wearing it! I won’t tell you what I did, since I followed the directions at the Lemon Squeezy Tutorial each step along the way, which you should check out!
The one thing i did differently: Since I have a new serger that I have been wanting to experiment with, I did a red rolled hem along all the edges of the dress. Overall, I used red instead of orange (although i LOVE the orange in Christie’s tutorial!) because while in Italy, i was completely inspired by the red poppies there.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with out it turned out, and R is too (she kept dancing, which is why my pictures are all super blurry and grainy – i had to really pump up the ISO). Besides preparing the flower petals, which was tedious, the sewing took me only about 1 hour. Well…that is AFTER I spent probably 20 monutes figuring out how to shir properly on my machine.
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The poppy dress just is simply adorable, as is your model 🙂 Love the red on the edges…finishes the dress nicely!
thanks! i think of myself as a good “direction follower” and not a creator…so i’m glad when i can make an addition to a pattern like this!
God this is so so so so cute! I love it! And she looks SO CUTE in it! What a wonderful creation. I love what the serger does, imagine a bold plum dress with a white border, there are so many possibilities for this dress shape, and design. And she can really wear this for a long time, eventually as a tunic on jeans if you want.
what a great idea! maybe I can make a shirt like this for M!
What a cute little dress – she looks so happy wearing it! 🙂
So sweet! Your little model is delightful!
I definitely can see why you were inspired to go with red instead of orange. I love this dress. I think the red rolled hem is a super cute detail, too. You do amazing work.