Vintage Brooke

This is not a recent project. In fact it is the second piece of clothing that I made, way back when Claire was just a newborn baby. And just to clarify, it is not a shirt, it's a 3 month baby dress- which is why it looks like a shirt on Morgan. I stuffed Morgan into it in order to take pictures.


I found this dress when I was moving and going through the baby clothes boxes and every time I see it, I go back to the time when I made it. I started it when Claire was about two months old. It took me a while to make, since I thought reading the pattern was like reading a foreign language, and I didn't have much time, with a baby and all (though I laugh at the idea that I was stretched for time back when I had only one kid). I hand stitched the circle design on the dress, because I had seen something similar to it on a cover of a baby magazine, and I loved it.


And you know what? I still love it. I decided, as I was looking at it this past week, that it is probably my favorite thing that I have ever made. Because it turned out exactly how I envisioned it, it is still cute six years later, both Claire and Morgan have worn it as babies and it has not fallen apart (which says a little something about my construction skills on this dress). I stitched on 'especially for Claire', but then by the time I finished making and embroidering the dress, it barely fit her. So she only wore it a couple of times and Morgan wore it more than Claire did.

Oh well.