Hello Hive!

I hope you are already having the best of the month, welcome to my favorite month of the year.

Growing up as a child, the month of May has always been a special month for me, you would think it's my birth month, far from that, it's a favorite month right from childhood because it is the month where a day is at aside to celebrate children. May 27th of every year, and this day brings so much memory about my childhood.

One spectacular event that happens during this day is a matching parade, we are dressed sharp in our clean uniforms pair of white socks and black shoes, and taken to our state stadium to match before dignitaries, and the best school performance is selected as the winner. but one duty that always set me apart from other students was the school princess duty, In those days, my mum would dress me like an African princess, with a headgear, Igbo blouse, and wrapper, I know it was supposed to depict our culture but dressing a child like an adult can be so uncomfortable for them, either way, it was a fun and memorable moment for me because I also get to wear my mum's red lipstick which she won't allow me on a normal day.

But these days things have changed, children are allowed to be children in their dress when they are chosen as the school princess to represent the school on Children's Day. So you can imagine my excitement when my daughter's headmistress notified me that my youngest daughter had been chosen this time and she was asked to dress in an all-pink dress, the school would provide her with a crown and a sash, while I as the mum would provide or rather make her a pretty dress, which I'm so happy to work on as it has been a while I made her a dress, have been so busy lately working on other's clothing.

One good thing about being a designer is that when sudden projects like this come up, I don't need to always go to the market to buy a new fabric, considering the way inflation has hit the market these days, all I had to do was go through my leftover fabric store bag, and luckily, I found just the right fuscial pink lace and matching satin fabric as the underlay to work with, the only material I had to buy is the tulle, I didn't have leftover tulles, and I got just two yards which cost less than 1$.

Cutting And Sewing Process

I started by drafting the upper bodice of the dress and transferred it to both the lace and satin fabric

Here is the back

Next, I cut out the base of the dress, it's just a long strip of the fabric I had left after cutting out the upper side of the dress.

I also went on to cut different strips of the tulle and a flare using satin as the base.

Furthering on, I gathered both the lace and tulle for the lower part of the dress, the tulle helps give the dress more fullness

Finally, for the sleeves, I had just very little pieces of the lace left, so I used it in drafting this simple basic sleeve and sewed it around the armhole of the dress, and attached a zipper at the back.

Here is the finished dress

My little princess helped in modeling it, posing for the camera. You can see the joy written on her face, and when our dog photo bombed she wondered why it wanted to take pictures with her lol, now we can't wait for children's day to come, as she still keeps practicing her moves for that day. Her dress is ready and waiting. How did you celebrate children's day as a child?

All images used in this post are mine.

Thank you for reading.❤❤