A {Modified} Puppet Show Dress for the {Almost} Birthday Girl

Today is Iris' last day of being a one year old.

We celebrated her birthday's eve by putting a candle in her piece of (this) banana bread at breakfast this morning.  Which was rather thrilling for her.

Until, that is, Indigo nervously warned her not to get too close to the flame.

She did not like.  Nope, not one bit. (I think Indi might have scared her.)

Whew.  Deep breath.

And on to happier things, like a new dress for the (almost) birthday girl.

I actually modified the puppet show pattern first for this dress.  I used polka dot in ocean by dear stella.

(Because no outfit is complete without matching safety goggles.)

And then there were the buttons.  Oh those buttons.  I decided to buy extra special ones (here).  And being the anti-hoarder that I can to be, I ordered exactly the number I needed.  Rather than, you know, ordering a spare button or two.

(I am learning these lessons the hard way.)

I had finished the dress and had hand-sewed the buttons on the cuffs.  It was midnight and I contemplated settling in and sewing the other seven.  I told Dan if I didn't sew them then, one of the kids might accidentally lose one of the buttons.

But that's ridiculous.  That's never happened before.

So I went to bed.

The following day, Jude and I were working on his grammar lesson together on the couch.  He was reading to me while I was sewing on the back buttons.  I had the buttons in a padded envelope next to me, which he dumped upside down, thinking it was empty.

The buttons fell into the couch.  I took off the cushions and realized they had somehow fallen through a hole into the inside of the couch, where the springs are.  Let's just say it wasn't pretty and after fishing for them and cutting up my arm on the springs, I still didn't have my buttons.

When Dan came home, he put on leather gloves and dug in, determined to find my missing buttons.  And he did find all of them... except for one.

So I resigned myself to ordering more buttons.   I waited another two weeks and this time ordered a few to spare.

They were worth it.

{Those are the Sunki Leggings (yes, again!) and I forgot to mention last time that when modifying this pattern, I did make the collar just a little larger.}