I wanted to make something with the UV-fabrics that has been all over the sewing community the past years for my niece as a Christmas gift/birhtday gift this winter. I bought a cute doughnut fabric that changed color in the sun and started sewing a hoodie-dress with fun, visible pockets on the front piece and a lot of details with the hood. Pattern 17 from Ottobre design kids issue 1/2020. As I was sewing, it looked so so bad and I had to redo the pockets several times, each time increasing the size of the pockets on the front piece. I was so frustrated and then I accidentally cut a little hole in the middle of the front piece. You know, a little irritating V-shaped hole from the scissors...

"No problem", I thought, trying to calm myself down but completely freaked-out by the whole experience. "I am an embroidery artist - I can just embroider something fun over it!". My boyfriend came in and saw me sitting on the floor, all sweaty and totally stressed-out, surrounded by little pieces of doughnut fabric and a really, REALLY ugly hoodie-dress. With a hole in it. And massive, wonky pockets on the front. He went in, took the hoodie, slowly put it in the trash and said - "let it go, its over", and finally released me from my maniac behavior. Sometimes you just have to let a project go. This year was the first time I bought her a gift instead of sewing one and it was so nice to not have the pressure.

I am not a quitter though! I bought myself some new UV-fabric, a lightblue one with glittery unicorns on it. The unicorns gets a lot of colors when reacting with the sun. I was visiting my family first weekend of June and wanted to bring a gift for my niece. With a much simpler pattern and a much cuter fabric I felt like nothing was going to stop me now.

I had some scrap fabric from a poppy dress I made earlier in May that I wanted to use as well, so I made another dress too. The pattern was number 15 from Ottobre design kids 1/2020. I wanted a twirl dress for the unicorn one, and I had just enough fabric for a full circle skirt!

I did not have enough poppy fabric to cover the whole dress so I thought for a while and decided I wanted a white, romantic fabric on the sides. Unfortunatelly I do not own that. And I want to destash. So I ended up using up a 4 meter long lace from my grandmother that I had laying around, covering an apricot colored jersey.

The result was really nice! The dress is beautiful on her but also comfortable, being all in jersey. A classy-pyjamas type of dress.

She was a little dissapointed it did not stand out as much as the unicorn one when she was spinning, so next dress will definitely be another twirl dress!

Apperantly glitter and unicorns are high-end fashion in 3.5 year-old's world. Everything is about unicorns right now so this was an instant success! A little big around the neck but I made it a size too big so she can grow in it.

The full-circle skirt is hemmed with a simple roll hem and is really impactful!