Prairie Dress (an Itty Bitty variation)

I made another Itty Bitty Dress in the newborn size last night, switching things up a bit.  I changed the straps to button instead of tie, and added a tie-back ribbon waist and some cute hand appliqued pockets.

The final result looks borderline "Little House on the Prairie" to me, which typically isn't my style, but I like that there is not a stitch of pink on the whole dress.

Now that I'm looking at these photos, I think the polka dot ribbon is a bit too much ... it would have looked better with a plain cream ribbon.  Alas, I did not have any plain cream ribbon last night and I am not one who can leave a project unfinished and just go to bed.  :)  I should learn to have more patience!

My very favorite detail is the pockets.  I ironed Wonder Under to a piece of the fabric print and cut out a few of the flowers.  Then I appliqued the flowers to the pockets by hand using a blanket stitch.

 The fabric is called "Maggie's Dress" and comes from American Jane's discontinued Recess collection.