Crafting365: day six Esme wears a funny bonnet

Esme: "Mom, I look silly!"
She was such a good sport about it though ;)
Not every sewing project hits the target ;) I think subonnets are cute and practical. Am I old-fashioned? Maybe I am, a little. I saw GrandmasGirl's shop at Etsy where she was selling prairie sunbonnets for baby to play outside in.

Then I remembered I had most of an old pattern for one from the flea market. How hard could it be to make? Well, a little harder than I thought, especially with *most* of the pattern. I was missing the bottom piece and had to make it up. I'll try again and do things differently! In the meanwhile, I'll use this one when Esme and I go out for walks in the sunshine ;)

Yes Rhelynn, you CAN sew a baby dress...
The bonnet was a good warm-up towards making a dress for Esme. I'd been thinking of one ever since I saw little dresses with ruffled sleeves at My Poppet shop blog. Also LittleGirlPearl's Flickr pictures impressed me further. I thought that at least with baby patterns you only waste one yard of fabric instead of four ;) So, I talked myself into it and bought an 'easy' dress pattern in size 1 yr. It's waiting to be finished right now...

Reminder: Ultimate Blog Party (for women bloggers only) at 5 minutes for Mom is March 7-14. I found out about it at WonderMommy.