I'm so excited to be joining Poppie Cotton for their project tour featuring the new line, Kaisley Rose!

I debated between making a quilty project or a baby dress. The quilty project is still upcoming, but for my turn on the blog lineup I just had to make a baby dress featuring my favorite plaid from this collection. 

A friend of my husband had sent me this pattern because she knew I would like it. It's probably the oldest one in my collection – my guess is the 1920s or possibly very early 1930s. And isn't it adorable?

I hadn't settled on a pattern for the plaid fabric, but after this one arrived I knew it was the perfect match. 

The yoke is supposed to be connected with embroidery stitches to make some lacework between the layers. I decided to simply overlap them instead. 

That altered the construction method somewhat, so I ended up mostly just glancing at the instructions and putting it together how it made the most sense to me. And it turned out pretty cute!

As you can see from the pattern illustrations, it's intended to hang straight from the yoke in a smock style. But the quilting cotton was stiff enough that it really was too shapeless, so I added an easy tie sash in the same contrast as the yoke. 

I love the yoke detail so much! They make the cutest tiny cap sleeves for summer. 

I had just barely enough fabric for this – I ended up having to shorten the hem and cut them cross-grain to fit the front and back pieces on. But even still I had a 3" hem, so it looks just fine!

My little girl loves her new dress and enjoyed posing in it. It's not quite warm enough yet to wear it out of the house, but it will be ideal for hot weather when it comes!

I love some of the other prints from this pretty collection, so you'll see more later – but for now, enjoy the lineup of lovely projects made by other bloggers using this fabric.