I made another Ginger dress, this time for a baby girl who is 6 months younger than R but is pretty much the same height. A lot of improvements were needed for the Ginger dress, such as a bigger neck opening, bigger arm hole, better way to finish the arm holes, making it adustable, and on and on… Being my lazy self, I knew there was no way I can get this done if I didn’t cut some corners.

Here’s what I actually did:

1) Increased neck opening by make the yoke narrower (even though it would be nicer to keep the same width but that would mean redrafting the body).

2) Lowered the arm hole a bit because the first one was tight.

3) Decreased the length of the dress by 2 inches. I was going to just chop 2 inches from the bottom, but realized that wouldn’t work because I would just lose the coordinating hem on the bottom, which I really want to keep. I ended up having to move the bottom hem up (redrawing the skirt pattern).

Hey, I know it’s only three things but this already required a redraw of the pattern, but it wasn’t too much work.

The sewing part went really well, until I had to rip the completed dress out from the yoke, twice! I don’t want to go into details about how I messed up twice, since that would require some yelling and screaming on my part. Let’s just say I’m so glad this is over.

In terms of the fabric, I ran out of the Genger Blossom floral fabric and used this Alexander Henry fabric. It actually came out much nicer than the last one.