Twirly dresses

These days, Vivi will only wear "twirly dresses" to school. Or at home. Anywhere. She only has two of them, which poses an obvious problem. I set out to remedy the situation by making her a new one, based on my mom's girl's dress pattern, using some beautiful summer cotton I bought while last in Beijing.

I changed the pattern, though, because I'm too lazy to sew buttonholes. Sorry, Mom. instead, I cut the front bodice on the fold, then added a slash neck and a tie closure. Worked out rather well!

I have some sweet photos of her testing the twirl characteristics of the dress. I can't post them here because of the blockage of Blogger by the Chinese, and now I can't post them to Flickr, either, for the same reason (as of yesterday, China has blocked Flickr, Twitter, and Hotmail. Wonder what's next: gmail and Skype, probably.) Sorry about that! Maybe later!