I got a pretty package in the mail yesterday
with something even prettier inside:
Melanie of Queen of the Flies gave away two of these lovely Oliver + S Ice Cream Dresses last week, and I won the 3T! I never win anything! I was super excited she chose my name – I love this pattern (I’ve only tried the shirt version myself), and I happen to really love her take on the dress. The Joel Dewberry Sparrows and Kaffe Fassett shot cotton are a perfect fall combination, and it’s beautifully sewn, too. Her blog is worth checking out if you haven’t already – there’s a great tutorial for lengthening the back opening of the Ice Cream Dress (the reason for the giveaway) – perfect if your kid has a big head!
Thanks for the dress, Melanie! I couldn’t love it any more if I tried.
Lila only agreed to participate in my photo shoot if she could wear the dress over the clothes she already had on. So here you go:
As if the dress weren’t enough, this showed up yesterday, too:
It was a very good day for mail.
Yay for a giveaway win! I’ve only ever won one, I think. It was a really good one, though. 🙂
The dress is adorable, it makes me want to sew one of these.
And I adore the pics of your daughter. My 4-yo is also expressing her own style. I have learned to roll with it, but my hubby finds it a LOT harder to embrace the eclectic style. (I’m pretty sure that he’s afraid ppl with think HE dressed her that way! But in fact he is amazing at picking out her clothes, when she used to let him!)
LUCKY! the dress looks great on lila and i can’t wait to see your tova! yay for sewing for YOU. 🙂
ooh you got the tova! and the dress is gorgeous!
Wow! I love the fabric that she chose for the dress too! And yay for you for winning it!
Thanks, Gail, for your kind words. I’m so touched you like the dress! And I just love the way Lila styles it – the boots and jeans are so fun. What a fashionista she will be!
Thank you for this handy alteration, I saw your altered dress on probably actually https://probablyactually.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/good-mail/ and was very excited as I made an Ice Cream dress at Christmas and was disappointed when I tried to get it over my 2 1/2 years olds head and found it just wouldn’t fit. I managed to slit the front and bind it with ribbon but your solution is much neater. I made another Ice Cream dress last night using your template and method and it looks fantastic. Thank you Celine