I have three little boys and most of my friends have boys…even my sister who is pregnant is expecting a boy. So I don’t have much need to sew for girls, sadly. But I decided to do it, anyway. I figure it will be nice to have them on hand for gifts or I can put them in my shop. My first attempt was a layered twirly skirt. I used this tutorial, which was lovely and very well written, but I think I still managed to mess it up. She has you sew the ruffle on in the flat, which worked great until I went to join the under skirt to the upper skirt and the side seam on the one side was in the way. I’m not sure how to describe it and i have the sneaking suspicion that I was doing something silly and completely missing the obvious. I ended up ripping that part out and redoing it. It also ended up shorter than they look in the pic. Oh well! I still think it’s adorable and I know the next one will be easy! It was really fun to make and went together fast, minus my mistakes. I think I’m going to make my own measurements for the next one though. I like my skirts a bit longer.

I also sewed up this pouch sling for my sister. She was due on the fourth…can you tell I do a lot of things last minute?! I really like how it turned out. The Amy Butler Nigella is such a perfect weight for these and the Wood Fern is such a pretty, classy print. I used Jan Andrea’s instructions, except that I padded one of the rails with fleece. I used my sister’s measurements, but I’m still thinking it might be too big. Hopefully I’m wrong! The padding will make it a bit trickier to shorten.