So it's finally happened, Lilly has run out of clothes and is getting into the "big girl" sizes her mom and I have dreaded. These days it's just getting creepier and creepier how short some of the dresses and skirts are getting. Somehow, the last few years, Lilly has managed to avoid this problem (probably a super-saavy shopping mom :)), but this year, the luck stopped and Stacy decided we were making the majority of Lilly's summer wear. This was just A-OK with me because 1) I'm all for long looks and 2) Bella gets Lilly's hand-me-downs!
As we were looking for long looks that could still keep Lilly looking moderately like her classmates, Stacy kept coming back to shirring. She had found tons of already shirred panels to get Lilly's wardrobe jump-started, and tons of videos teaching us how to shir ourselves. Turns out the process isn't all that tough, just one that involves some special elastic thread and a whole lot of patience. Double excitement: the look works for us, too!
