By The Shores of Silver Lake - Sewing Day

J and I are currently reading through our fourth Little House book in the series - By the Shores of Silver Lake. J has been asking me to find some dress patterns for her American girl doll that looked like her prairie dress. We finally took a whole Saturday and sewed until our hearts were content:)

J wanted a prairie dress and bonnet to make. She was concerned about the sleeves and such so I helped her with the tiny seams. J is cutting out her pattern using a cute blue calico that my mom sent (thanks mom!).

Here is J's prairie bonnet - it turned out cute and was a simple project to sew. This gave us courage to try the dress.

The dress turned out to be somewhat harder that expected. But it turned out pretty cute. But now I know why I don't sew dolls clothes:)

Links

Ag Play Things - has the free patterns for several of the American Girl dolls including the one we used for the bonnet and dress.