DIY Daisy Maya Dresses — Victoria Martinez

Matching girl dresses for me and my girl!

Making these with my four year old was so so lovely. We used a big kinda stiff bedsheet with a few different motifs, so we could have some fun with patterns. I love the big skirt florals.

I also love doing pattern cutting via ripping. The shapes of garments made from them are, unsurprisingly, less certain to be my fav. To make mine work for me, I added big giant box pleats to the sides, since I needed less bodice ease and more skirt ease (we ran out of big beautiful floral sections, so I was limited to 1.5*bodice width. If I did this again, I would do the bodice with less ease off the hop, but the standard dress looks so cute on people! Thing is, cute is not my MO usually!

Which is funny to say because I shortened the skirt up lots and lots to a cutesy babydoll type. Somehow felt tuffer. And for something that pushed it into my style, I gave the hem a nice big pleat. Got all careful about stitching it in place and used the blue thread where it matched and skipped the pink sections, which… I still need to tack properly.

Child’s neckline taken in with extremely cute (imo) dart’s

For the cute little four year old’s cute dress, significanlty less fiddling was required. Since she’s smaller than the draft instructions mostly there was some guessing, but it wasn’t particularly tricky; I felt like the instructions set you up for success no matter your size! I made the neckline a bit too big and darted it out in front and I think that detail looks super nice. I also really like how on her dress, the print we chose for the bodice fits perfectly.

Oh, and she got a watermelon tag and I got diverse, perverse, and ready to converse. 😎.

Pattern: DIY Daisy Maya Dress from the book, but link goes to online tutorial
Fabric and notions: thrifted weird fabric bedsheet, thrifted bias tape, labels from Inside Voices and… I forget who makes the watermelon!