Do I Hear A Chicken In Here?

I woke up this morning with chickens on my brains, so I decided to make Cluck Cluck. And I did. Here it is, the front:





Front pocket detail:





The back:






And the fold-back flaps on the back, up close and personal:





I'm loving these flaps. And the black polka dot lining, too.

In the comments the other day, someone (I'm thinking it was patsjean) mentioned labels. I do put a label in every Little Dress I make. Here's the one in Cluck Cluck:




I'm really happy with this Little Dress.

I'm still pondering Flower Power and Doritos, although I must say I really do like the link to the chili pepper fabric an anonymous commenter directed me to the other day. I just may order some of that.

Doritos-I Need Fabric!

First off, thanks all for the kind comments on Doritos. Alas, I have no suitable fabric. In my mind it is made of bright, spicy, hot salsa colors, two, maybe three of them....I MUST go shopping. It fits The Princess perfectly and I REALLY want to make the real thing for her.

Several of you have asked what I do with the muslins. I keep them. They hang on a little hanger in the sewing room closet and it really surprises me how much I refer to them. I go back and measure hem lengths, the chest, the shape of an armhole, all sorts of things. Just looking at one of them will spark an idea every now and then.

Anonymous mentioned making the bodice triangle into a collar. I had thought of that. When I was playing around with it, it seemed to need the button to make it zingy. Since I know The Princess so well, if she had a loose collar with a button on it, she would try to eat the button. That's why I decided on the applique instead.

I really like this little design. My head is full of nonsense like this. There are so many sketches lying around here, drawn on napkins stuffed in my purse, crammed in the desk drawer at school.....

Here's one I finally just had to play with. I had it in my little mind to do a folk-arty type flower on the front panel of a basic dress. Since I can't draw (as you all have witnessed so many times), I cut a piece of muslin about the size of the panel I had in mind and grabbed the scissors and this big basket of scraps:





Three minutes later the nice basket of scraps looked like this:




I wish I could tell you that this is all of the cotton scrap yardage I have, but it wouldn't be true. There's probably over 800 different cotton fabrics in various yardage amounts from 1/4 yard to 2 yards hanging out in large totes in the closet. I've been quilting and collecting 100% cotton for a long time.

At any rate, even though I can't draw a lick I can certainly wield a pair of scissors. It wasn't long before what I had in my little head turned into this:




I cut all those pieces freehand, so each one is a little wonky. I'm a little wonky, too; maybe that's why I like this.

After trying this out on muslin I went into the cabinet and came out with this, a little lavender and cream dot:




It has named itself. Flower Power, of course. Comments? I just love it when yall give me some input!