Summer Dresses

Both girls are really keen on dresses. Since my older daughter didn't have many that fitted from last year, I had to make some. Even though I don't really like hoods on dresses Schabelina's 'hooded dress' pattern Kapuzenkleidchen is perfect, because there are so many variations and you can even mix knits with woven material.

So the first dress was made from yellow Trigema piquet and woven material from my mother-in-law.

Then one with lilac piquet and two different tweet cottons. Since I even had the matching ribbon for this material it looks quite fancy, I think.

My younger daughter got almost the same.

Here an action picture from the square in Siena with both girls wearing their dresses.

 

For her second birthday she got a lovely strawberry dress with Pinocchio on top.

...and matching leggings...

new baby giveaways: photo keyring pendants

Here in Belgium it is customary to give 'doopsuiker' (small presents and some sweets, usually sugar beans) to family and friends on the occasion of a baby born. Being German I am not so familiar with this, but now that we live in Belgium we still went for it. So I prepared small boats filled with different strawberry sweets and photo keyring pendants with a photo of our little one.

By the way, she was born in May, that's why we went for the strawberry theme ;) I also made the strawberry stamp and a stamp with her name for the little cards.