Blessing gown

 

My sister-in-law sent me some pictures of my newest niece wearing the gown I made for her blessing.   She lives several states away not to bad since I could not try it on her. On the bonnet there is a ribbon that when you pull ...

it out the bonnet actually gets about 1 inch longer across the front of the brim of the hat.  So if in the future babies are a little bigger than this one she will still be able to use it.  I love my nephews comment to his mom of "Mom the dress is too long it goes past her feet."  Like a baby that is less than two months old would care to walk or crawl and this would get in the way of that.   On a side note this same brother helped me pick out the flowers that I sewed on the dress. Hard to believe that was all made using only two skeins of DMC Baroque cotton thread.  I am just sad that she, my sister-in-law, didn't have the jacket on my niece so I could have seen it all together.