nautical dresses for baby

I used a big 3 pattern for both of them, Simplicity I think? Whichever one was on the $10/10 sale last. Gotta love big 3 sizing! Err lack thereof. They're both "0-3 month" and have oodles of room to grow on my 3-6 month size kid.

This sailboat print was a local purchase that I just love. None of my other kids like it. Hmph. The anchors reminded me how much I dislike bias tape binding on necklines and arm holes, I made facings for this one instead.


Not my cleanest zipper installation, it would look neater if I'd ironed it afterwards.


The anchors are vintage fabric. My local girlfriend's mother bought them for HER when she was a baby, she never got around to sewing them up. Then gf never got around to sewing them up for her dd, who just turned 8 and is "too old" for anchors. Gf gave them to me while I was pregnant, I was saving them to find out gender. There's enough left to do a mostly white camp shirt for Moose if I can talk him into wearing anchors, lol.

Pleats at the neckline. The only pattern alteration I did here was adding a button placket to the back instead of the zipper it called for. Oh! I shirred the pantlegs on both bloomers, instead of putting an elastic casing in. (Pure laziness there...)