Le Petit Prince

Le Petit Prince is actually one of my favorite books. It seems that every time I read it I learn something new. Unfortunately the copy I have is in french, so sometimes, especially now as I haven't taken french class in three years, it's a challenge to read. I'll have to put "get english copy of Le Petit Prince" on my to-do list.
I don't have anything besides the book that represents my love for it.  So I'd been searching for a shirt or a dress that has some of the illustrations on it, but to no avail. There's a lovely store online, La Boutique du Petit Prince, that has all things Petit Prince related, but they didn't have what I wanted.
So after I saw this beautiful design for a quilt via Cation Designs, I thought "Duh! Make a dress!" So that's the second design in the lineup.  This dress is actually going to be a wearable muslin for my dress to wear to my sister's rehearsal dinner made from Vogue V8766.

I'm going to be making the version in the upper right hand corner with the full skirt and half sleeves. Also like Cation Designs (can you tell she's my favorite?) my muslin is going to be made out of a bed sheet. And that's why she's my favorite, because she and I both make our clothing out of bedsheets, only she tends to make much cuter dresses than I do.
This image is definitely going on it.

And I'm hoping I'll have enough room for this one because the fox is my absolute favorite.

I'll be cutting the images from the various colors of fabric and appliqueing them onto the blue bedsheet.
Eeep! Excited!


Also, as a bonus, I have dogs laying on fabric:

This is Scooter, laying on fabric from a previous project.

And this is Hannah laying on my fabric today and chewing on a rock. Ridiculous.

Dogs are definitely difficult to sew with. Mine like laying on (usually just ironed) fabric as much as cats do and as a plus, they shed like crazy. I wish I had a cutting table. It would help my back and the dogs couldn't get up on it. Although Hannah jumped over the couch the other day, back to front, so it's been established that she can jump really high.

More ideas still, but I'll save them for another day!