The Portion of my Inheritance

I understand how Noah felt, because these days everything comes in twos.

I was originally going to make Aria a dress for her birthday but I kept hearing this little voice in my head saying, “Ni Ni?”  Which is what Aniyah always says to me if she gets left out.

So the birthday dress turned into the Easter dresses.

The starting point for this dress is from the Heidi & Finn pattern The Gatsby dress. You can find it here. This etsy store has several amazing little girl patterns, check them out.

The pink lining fabric is the same fabric that I dyed several weeks ago, you can find that story here.

The soft knit fabric was purchased in Dallas on Harry Hines on one of my trips there with my friend Teresa.

The absolutely amazing lace fabric was also purchased there. I paid $4 a yard for the lace and went back later for more and it was gone.

I used the lace fabric for the sleeves and the overlay. It has sequins along the faux smocking, with elastic to give it a gentle stretch. I did not have to add elastic to the sleeves,  it was already there.  Like I said, absolutely amazing fabric!

Aniyah’s dress has layers of ruffles. This is more of the wonderful vintage lace that my friend Patty gave to me. Here are some post where I have used some of her vintage laces in different ways.  Here and here and here.

The bodices of both dresses are the same. I like to make their clothes the same-but different.

The dress closes in the back with a sparkly button.

Aria’s dress is topped off with three stands of old beads that I had stored away from an old yard sale find.

Happy girls=happy mammy!

And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

1 Corinthians 15:4