summer time dressing

It means shorts! Our weather lately has definitely put us in mind of summer. Until this weekend that is, when there were wind advisories of 50+ MPH. And dust. Did I mention the dust? What, you thought that brown sky was clouds? HA HA HA.

Raine has grown so much that when we went through her play clothes drawers, she was left with about 3 paris of pants and 2 pairs of shorts. YIKES! That will not do! I'm not the kind of mom that thinks she much have endless choices. I've already made too many things for Raine that she never got around to wearing.Still, I do think the staples should be in the wardrobe, and that she should be able to have a week's worth of shorts in the summer, and a week's worth of pants in the winter. I'm not a do-laundry-every-night sort of person.

Recently, JoAnn's had a sale, and I took Raine, and she picked out fabric for shorts. I was surprised by some of her choices (not the camoflage though) and thought she made some good ones! I got them all cut out last weekend. It was the 3-day variety, and I took advantage. This weekend I let her pick the pair she wanted me to sew up first. Not surprisingly, it was the camo pair.

She is a lot happier with the shorts than this photo would lead you to believe.

She likes a basic board short with side seam pockets, and a pocket on the side, a comfortable elastic waist, and long enough to fall below her knee. I cut them out as a size 14 with added length. Like 4-6 inches added length. She doesn't look too thrilled in the photo above, but she finally got into the spririt of things, posing for pictures of all sides of the shorts.

how about this side?

I forgot to sew that outside pocket on before I closed up the crotch seam, so placement was problematic, and it looks like I didn't quite get it level. Still, camo hides a myriad of flaws, right? I doubt she will even notice. I know she likes them because after she tried them on for me, she wouldn't take them off.

Hopefully she will be able to wear them for a couple of years... but she's going to have to grow into those hands, isn't she. More shorts on the horizon, preparing for summer swelter.