My New Adventure...

I had owned a sewing machine for many years but not until I had my own daughter and came across a beautiful sewing book by Gail Doane: "Sew Cute Couture", that all of a sudden I had a desire to make beautiful garments for my baby girl. So my adventures in sewing began with the purchase of this book.
I decided to make the Bunnies 'n Buttons dress and jacket. I have done some sewing here and there in the past and I consider myself a novice, but I was feeling adventurous and I'm so glad I did.
I do not own a pleater so I got smocking dots and pleated the dress by hand which did not look very even but after it was all smocked you could not really tell. I had trouble understandidng the how to block the dress since the blocking pattern did not look like the pivtures in the book so I contacted the author and right away she answered my questions.
For the jacket I had a hard time getting the fabric recommended in the book so I got wool gabardine instead. I bought the buttons from Gail's Etsy Shop .
Here are some pictures of the dress and jacket in progress.



Pleating by hand



Blocking