MissElizabeth
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2010
Hi there and welcome!!! As you've seen there are some great ones out there! HeatheSue started it and I think many of us use her design as inspiration. I've made it a ton (it's requested a lot)!! As teresajoy said, I use the Simply Sweet to make this one. I also like a more fitted look. One way to do this with the simply sweet is to add a tie at the waist: ( I don't have a pic of the back of my cindy dress, but did the same thing on this one):
Or you could shirr the back. Either do this by shirring (follow the tutorial of carla's), or you could slight modify her Halter back simply sweet to add a couple more rows of elastic and use loops to tie the straps through (gives it less of a halter look:
Oh, and HeatherSue has the applique file for the little blue bird if you have an embroidery machine!
All so cute!! I did the same Minnie head applique the other day using the SAME fabrics!!
And congrats on the first order!! Isn't it exciting...I get so happy every time I get one!!
Jess
Thank you so much. Those dresses are beautiful!! I *wish* I could embroider. My machine does embroider but I've never been able to get it to work. Its a refurb so I don't know if the problem is me or the machine.
I found a pink Cindy dress on the Ollie Girl site last night that I may want to CASE (is that bad etiquette? The dresses there are stunning) and it looks like the simply sweet pattern too. I am excited, and daunted, at the same time by this project!