Snow White

Lily as Snow White

It's literacy week at school and Lily wanted to dress up as Snow White. (Her friends said she had the hair for it!) She trawled through my clothes fabric stash and came up with all these fabrics bar the royal blue which a quick trip to Spotlight produced. And then she sewed it! That's the kind of costume making I like! I think she is quite pleased with the outfit. She started by making a muslin of the bodice from a pattern I had in the cupboard that was close to what she wanted. We fitted it to her, she is quite short-waisted which makes finding dresses in the shops that fit very hard, and she changed the sleeves and devised the skirt. I helped her with the fitting (so hard to do on yourself!) but she did the rest herself. Job well done I think, and it might even encourage her to have a go at making clothes for herself that aren't costumes. (That's not guaranteed! Costumes are just so exciting, the makers tend to get carried along by the excitement of a costume. Regular clothes, not so much.) I am still working away on my secret project. I am thoroughly sick of it now and I'm longing to sew something else. That desire to sew something else is the only thing pushing me to the finishing line right now. Hopefully I will have some not-secret-sewing to show you by the weekend! (When it will be September people! September!)