B is for Blue, Beads, and Buckle

Have you ever had a conversation with someone you thought you knew really well, and then they say something and you wonder, huh?!?  

Ryan casually said to me this weekend, do you remember when I picked Coldplay Sugar Ray up from the airport?

Um.  No?  What?  Was this when we were married?

No, it wasn't, but isn't this the type of information a girl should know before she commits her life to marriage?

Ah, well.  We like to surprise each other every so often.  Like when I told him I used to be a cheerleader.  

Haha.  No, that's not true, but I tried to convince him that I really was.

So, this was the B dress for Clover's B week.  Full of blue, beads and an antique, glass buckle that I knew would be perfect as soon as the perfect project came along.

The dress design is my own, which is always so much more time consuming than using a pattern, but usually worth it.  I used the very technical method of tracing the top portion of Clover's jammies and adding the ruched panel.

The zipper is a jeans zipper that happened to coordinate with my color scheme. Love it when that happens.

I made it out of a baby wale corduroy that has a bit of a stretch to it.  Her headband was not an official part of the ensemble. That was just the huge amount I cut off the hem.  Thought she was taller than she is, I guess.

*Sewing tip: when sewing with a fabric that has a nap (it feels smooth one way and rough the other way) you want the nap going up the garment.  This makes it look darker and richer.

And, what do you know, it's already C week.  Of course she'll be wearing her Clover shirt, but I've also got something in mind for more C goodness.

2 down, 24 to go!