That’s it, another Christmas Day done and dusted!  Thirteen adults and our two girls for lunch at our house – thankfully everyone brought along food to share and hubby cooked up a superb seafood barbeque, so it was a very successful day!  My mother-in-law and sister-in-law even did a sterling job of cleaning up in the kitchen afterwards – luckily for me, because I was absolutely exhausted at the end of the day and was in bed at the same time as the girls…

Anyway, on to Clare’s dress!  The pattern is the Jump Rope dress by Oliver + S.

There are so many lovely details in this dress. The placket and rounded collar, belt loops, tabs on the folded sleeve cuffs, patch pockets. I used a contrasting fabric (from Spotlight last year) for the inside of the placket, the under collar, the belt loops, the pocket flaps and the sleeve tabs. And we used very plain buttons to tone down that riot of colour and pattern.

Although Clare measured size 6, I took a punt and sewed size 7 (she is almost 8 years old). I was glad that I did – the 6 would have been quite snug. In the 7 she has growing room without it being too large. Perfect!

The fabric is from Sandi Henderson’s Meadowsweet 2 line.

Thanks so much to everyone who left me lovely comments on my last post.  I hope that you all had an enjoyable day and that the holiday season continues in a positive vein.