ModSew:: Knit Horse Maxi Dress for little girls

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Girl Charlee is an online fabric shop that sells knit fabrics and let me tell you how much I heart them. A LOT!!!! Like a WHOLE LOT! I first made my washi dress out of some of their knits and I actually have it on today. And I had it on yesterday. and the day before. You get the point. It is awesome and so comfortable to wear but still stylish.

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I knew that I wanted to make the girls dresses with this awesome horse knit they had. I didn’t know what exactly but I knew they would love it. So I asked them and well they had an idea of long princess dresses. I then asked the youngest a million questions because she has very specific ideas about what she wants and doesn’t want. HA! I asked if we could just use one of their shirts and add the skirt to it. They both agreed that was okay. I knew that was the only way I could make it work for the amount of fabric that I had on hand. So maxi, aka princess, dresses it was.

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I asked them to get a shirt they wanted to use. The youngest picked a shirt that was smocked at the top and had a gathered bottom so to make the dress I just took the gathered bottom off and attached the gathered skirt to it. Super simple and she has worn it pretty much every SINGLE day since I made it for her. She loves it so much.

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The oldest picked a long sleeve striped shirt. Yea. So I cut it off at the point where it would make her dress long with the fabric that I had left. It was a little big so I added some ties to the side with some leftover Girl Charlee father fabric I had. I also just cut off the sleeves where she wanted me to and left as it was because it is knit so it won’t ravel. She loves her and has worn it a lot since I made it as well.

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They dresses were washed after this picture and the length shrunk up a little bit making it the perfect length for both of them. They love that they now have long dresses like I wear and they are comfortable too.

I also love how my oldest is holding her little hands and my youngest is looking away in the picture above. I love those girls and I love when I can just be with them and not worry about other things. I think there are so many distractions in my life that it is sometimes so hard to just be, ya know. Pictures like these make me think this is a season in my life that will pass before I know it so I so need to enjoy each and every moment.

And go check out Girl Charlee and get yourself some knit fabric to make something amazing with!