How many dresses does a girl need?

I have been completely absent the past couple of months; I was recovering from surgery so haven't had much energy for the blog! I was operated twice mid may and recovery has been a little slow. Once I was feeling better I had so much to do and catch up on that blogging and computers were just not a priority.....But, I'm back!

Once I started to feel a little better after the surgeries, I started sewing again, slowly. Day 1: tracing the pattern, day 2, cutting the fabric, day 3 /4/5 sewing all together. All in all it didn't go fast...  but Alice has ended up with quite a few dresses for this summer after all! Perhaps too many? How many dresses does a (nearly) 2 year old need??

An overview of a few on the washing line this afternoon (so they're not ironed...and it shows...tant pis!)

Two versions of the Lotta Dress (one of which is for the KCW - Kids Clothes Week)

Left dress; Euphloria fabric with red cotton lining, right dress; 'arctic lights' and 'tulip vines', mint cotton lining, all from Bellelien

Two versions of the Hanami dress from Straight Grain (I LOVE this dress pattern!!):

Right dress: red/flower quilting cotton from my stash (can't remember where and when I bpight it..) right dress; 'bonbons in candy' cotton from Hawthorne's Threads

Two versions of the Lizzy Dress from Shwin Design:

Left dress; 'meandering in petal' top and 'wander woods in petal' bottom both from Hawthorne's Threads
Right dress; whoopsie daisy red' from Soft Cactus

A simple A line dress (homedrawn pattern)

Toddles Ivy Blue from SoftCactus 

The Sally Dress, worn to visit Paris; mom at the doctor, dad and the kids at the Eiffel Tower!:

 

Yellow quilting cotton from Hawthorne's Threads (old stash, can't remember the name of the fabric, sorry)

And last but not least, dress number 9; the Susanna Dress from the book Zelfgemaakte kleertjes 2 
with the oh so important pockets! (each dress I made above ahs pockets btw, added them to each pattern if they did not have them, as Alice loves having pockets)

Again a SoftCactus fabric, the 'little daisy green'

Herewith a few photos of the dresses worn also;

Frowny face as Alice wanted to play but had to go to nursery instead.... :-)

Morning sleepyhead

So yes, a total of 9 dresses. Quite enough probably....So the last one I finished is for the Kids Clothes Week which started today, http://www.kidsclothesweek.com/, and now moving on to something else; the Ally Jumpsuit from La Maison Victor! Need to finish it for tomorrow, day 2 of the KCW!