I've been having sundress envy with all these summery frocks being made by refashionistas here in the northern hemisphere, but when you're a breastfeeding mom, dresses are pretty impractical. So I had to invent my own:
Looks like a normal retro-y sundress, no? Well, it pretty much is, except that when you undo the waist ties, the yoke lifts up and there's another cami-type layer underneath so you can nurse a baby without totally revealing yourself!
The cami layer came from a thrift-store nightie, the fabric is an old bedsheet, I'm wearing a slip-petticoat-thing underneath made from the discarded skirt section of the nightie, and the whole thing is super comfortable and breezy. More details (and some ranting) at my blog.
Oh - and part of the reason the reason the photo is so grainy is that as soon as I finished this dress (so I could wear it to a family reunion barbecue at my mom's), it got totally cloudy outside. I realised that I had no jackets or cardigans that would be able to accomodate the bow at the back of my dress, so I took a long-sleeved t-shirt and did this:
Not that you're going to need instructions, but there's a pretty cute tutorial here.
