Children's Corner Nora

I bought the Dear Stella Flamingo knit and Children's Corner Nora's Knit Dress pattern at my local quilt shop, Sew Special Quilts. I love that they offer great quality patterns and fabrics for more than quilting.
The pattern offers sizes 1-6, but be aware they are not nested, so if your child is skinny like mine it is not easy to blend sizes. Normally I would have sewn her a size 4 width and 6 length, but since each size is a separate tissue page I just made a straight 6. There is a bit of gaping at her neck, but since it is a dress I think the loose fit is okay. If I had made the circle skirt version (View A) I would have wanted a tighter fit.

She was past posing for pictures at this point

It has a neckline facing instead of a neckband or binding. You do have to stitch the facing down, so a coverstitch machine or twin needle are needed. You may have to zoom in to see the topstitching on the facing edge. The pattern had pieces to use as a template, but I just eyeballed it instead. The pattern features an assymetrical sleeve (instead of the usual triangles to mark the front and back they wrote front and back on the pattern piece and I missd the writing when I traced the pattern). The sleeve fit nicely into the armscye.

This was my first time using Dear Stella knit and it was okay to sew. It did want to roll near the cut edges (especially the hem), but I ironed the hem with Best Press before hemming and it was okay. I wasn't able to use my downturn feller for the 1" hem. I'm not sure if it was the fabric or the hem shape that was at fault, but it just didn't cooperate, so I used my seam guide and just turned it under 1" as I sewed. I really appreciate that I made this dress from 1 yard of knit and I have a good size scrap left over. The cut is cute and still conserves fabric.

I think I may sew another one just as a top, because she is quickly running out of clothes (I think she's grown again).

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