Madeline X 2 for Halloween!
I Just look at those girls! Little sweethearts, for sure (I should know, I'm their Grandma!). My daughter Kristen has always loved dressing up for Halloween, and now she has a blast dressing her 2 daughters ages 3 and 8 months for the holiday. At the beginning of Sept she sent me a text with a photo of some Madeline costumes she had seen on Etsy, with the comment: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking...?" YES! I jumped right on board and offered to sew the costumes for my granddaughters, as I knew I would have as much fun sewing them as they would have wearing them. I knew I had Simplicity 4243 in my pattern stash. I had made it before and so I knew it would fit baby Estie: Lucky for me, I have a sewing buddy who loves vintage patterns and often gifts me with them when she finds them when scouring estate sales. This one is a Vintage Simplicity 5948 from 1965: which was a perfect fit for Jolene, age...