I am going to give you all a little bit of personal information about my girlie, Mia. As you can probably tell we look nothing alike. That is because she is adopted, from Guatemala. That is also why I use the instagram name pink_guate_mama and you may find me talking about Guatemala in different aspects of life. It is a truly beautiful country and I love that Mia is lucky enough to call it her birthplace. Now the other thing you may need to know, to understand why I do some things, is that Mia is visually impaired (VI) technically she is legally blind. She reads Braille and has a white cane and all that you think of when you hear the word blind. However she does not "look" stereotypically blind. Her eyes may roll and bit unintentionally and she gets "happy hands" but overall no one would really know she has a disability without the aid of the cane or being told.
Mia was born with Optic-Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH). Basically her optic nerve didn't fully develop in the womb. We are beyond blessed that she does not have the typical secondary condition of Septo Optic Dysplasia, which can effect growth as well as many other things physically and developmentally. When Mia first came home in September 2006 we took her to an endocrinologist and it was determined everything on that end was normal, petite but normal. MIa is at or above grade level in school and is actually ahead of some of her "regular" education peers. She is socially mature enough to equal her grade level, with maybe a bit of immaturity thrown in because she does not have the same visual cues that other children have that force them to grow up more quickly than you or I did. She doesn't play video games or watch TV and moves with sex and violence. She is 9 years old and still whole heartedly without a doubt believes in Santa and the Tooth Fairy! However there are things I personally have to do to make adaptions for her to be involved. She is a 9 year old girl after all, who is newly in love with Blake Shelton LOL, she wants her own style and to be able to choose her own clothes and how her hair or nails are done. I mean what girl doesn't want that option? So I have to get creative with her. I try to take her fabric shopping so she can feel the fabrics and decide a color or I will describe a pattern for her and she will say yes or no. I will let her choose the color of the zipper or button or ribbon. A lot of time we look for buttons with texture. Texture is what excites her!
And that brings me to the topic of the day.
Ruffle Fabric.
Glorious beautiful texture ridden ruffle fabric. The very first time that Mia felt it at Jo-Ann Fabrics she HAD to have some. We happened to find it on sale so we bought a few yards of some hot pink. I knew I had some cotton woven fabric in my hoard stash that I could mix it with. All that was left was finding a good pattern. I had recently joined the PDF Pattern Promotion and Sales Facebook group and I knew I could look thru the list of Designers and find something. Sure enough I found Create Kids Couture! They have many patterns to choose from and they are all so girlie and ruffly! They are a ruffle lovers dream! I did a site search for "ruffle fabric" and came across the pattern for Josie's Ruffle Fabric Peasant Dress.
I mean how much cuter can you get!?! Mia wanted to wear it on a warmish day and I was happy to oblige, as long as leggings were worn because it was still chilly lol
Overall I am finding that I LOVE Create Kids Coutures patterns. This pattern was so easy to follow and has such a good finish to it. Their directions and explanations were right on and made perfect sense to me too. And coming from a fairly novice sewer that means a lot! I am currently working on my second Create Kids Couture pattern with a Facebook Sew Along and it has the same easy flow as this one did. I highly recommend them to any new to PDF pattern sewer. You will be spoiled for sure and have people knocking down your door to have you sew things for them in no time at all!
I have so many more things going thru my head to share with the projects I have just finished or am currently working on or new tricks I have found for things. But I am also trying to go in order with how I made them!
Happy Sewing!
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