Mara's Blessing Dress

I used eyelet lace for both Lauren's and Caelyn's blessing dresses, but I have always had my eye on this shantung silk fabric. It was a splurge but I didn't mind for my little lady and I thought it would make a gorgeous blessing dress. I LOVE how it turned out! I love the pearly white color and the feel of the fabric. It was so fun to sew on this high quality fabric. I love how the pleats at the bottom of the skirt turned out. I love the lace accents. Etc! Etc! I guess I should just say that I love this dress. Oh and the girl is also extremely precious!

Miss Hannah's Blessing Dress

My friend Theresa asked me awhile back to make her daughter's blessing dress (she was pregnant at the time.) Of course I said YES! I love making beautiful things especially for great friends! All the blessing dresses I have made in the past I have used eyelet lace. However, Theresa chose lace over satin. So I went on the search for a good fabric lace. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Our Joann's has some but it was $25/yd and pretty fancy for a newborn. I found something I thought would work at the Fabric Depot (I love that store!) in Portland but wasn't in love with it. However, I finally found some at the Olympia Joann's (plus they don't make a stink to give me no sales taxes!) YEA! So here is the finished product! I must say in my humble opinion it is beautiful!

Blessing Dresses

Caelyn Rose - May 3, 2009





Addison Lewis - December 2007