Handmade Easter Dresses

I found my inspiration for this year's Easter clothes in a few different places. I usually only sew clothes for my kids a few times a year. Easter, Halloween, and sometimes Christmas. Here are the links and instructions for this year's creations.

Emma's Dress was actually a shirt tutorial that I found here at Sew Mama Sew. There is a complete tutorial with great step by step instruction that are very easy to follow. I just made it long enough for a dress and instead of doing pleats I did small gathers in the front and back. It was so much easier to do that instead of having to measure and make sure the pleats were exact. The only thing I would do different is I probably would have made it a floor length instead of knee. I think it looks a bit like a swim cover up this way. But overall I'm happy with the way it turned out!

Isabelle and Lucy's skirts were made from instructions out of Izzy and Ivy designs. I bought the booklet from broadbents. I wasn't a fan of the instructions. They didn't make sense so I improvised. Basically, if you can cut a rectangle, then you can make this skirt. What I did was cut 2 waistband pieces to 6 x 15 3/4 and 2 skirt pieces to 13x26. and two bow pieces to 9x27. If you've made a skirt before you can probably figure out how to piece these together. It's pretty easy. If not, you'll have to call me or buy the book.

Sewing Henry's vest and tie was so much fun. I have found that most handmade boy clothes are kind of dorky. But this turned out so cute. I love the little wooden buttons and the fact that his yellow polkadot tie matches the details on the girls dresses.
I downloaded the pattern for his vest here at you can make this. It was so easy! I will be making many more of these in the future. The total cost of his vest and tie was about $6.00. I found the tutorial for his tie here at very homemade. Again very easy and the tutorial was fantastic.