A hat for Thayer and Megan's dress finished!

I finally finished Megan's dress today.  I think it turned out pretty nice.  The zipper part proved to be the most difficult, just as I thought it would.

One of the reasons I started this blog was to do the occasional step-by-step project.  I plan on making one to show how I re-attached the bodice without having to put a new zipper in. 

I will have more pictures later and hopefully some pictures to post of Meg wearing the dress.  She's so much cuter than my dress form anyway.  :)

(By the way, the skirt did not get longer.  The dress form got shorter.)


I also finished Thayer's hat.  He'd specifically asked for the long tassle on the end, which was a shame because before I put the tassle on the hat stood straight up.  He looked like a little gnome.  It was so cute!

This is kind of the same pattern I used for the other two boys' hats but I kept getting lost because there were no solid stripes so I ended up pretty much just making it up as I went along after the first 20 rows or so.  I did a decreasing row every 5 rows.  I would guess this is where place markers would have come in handy but I do think it turned out a good size for a younger child.