Esme's dresses were looking a little lackluster lately - it has been so long since I made a new one. I put this together today and planned for it to be 'just long enough' and short sleeved to maybe be a cooler summer day or a warmer fall one. This is also the last pair of pants I made - just a tad too long to grow into them (and she does not have her shoes on, they are beside the bed).
fabric: Denyse Schmidt's Katie Jump Rope bandana print in blue, bought from Murray Sewing Center in May, 2012
pattern: modified McCalls 8001 1960s pattern size 5 designed by Helen Lee
garden updates: The beans we planted the other day - including the kidney beans Esme put in, are coming up. The Kenearly and Shackamaxons are sprouting, and either the Bosnian or the Florida lima bean has jumped up 6 inches. No more new pods on the limas, there are pods on the cowpeas, not even flowers on the Tennessee Greasy Beans. The experimental hill field corn is coming up. We are thinking of clearing another three feet and putting a few rows of sweet corn out just to see how it will do this late. The pumpkin and the zucchini have not yet come up, but the transplanted squashes and/or watermelon have continued. The bottle gourds are putting on gourds and we have semi-plans for when they are mature that involve Esme and some paint :) The corn in the west field is still alive - I thought it would be dead when I walked over there. The sunflowers are 2 feet tall (instead of four) and starting to put on heads - one head had big fat seeds I collected in amazement. The squashes are still staying compact and trying to flower to put on some seed. It is interesting to watch the difference between that 'new soil' and the established garden plot. Same seed, different survival mechanisms going on.
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