Feeling a bit inspired by the most beautiful baby, I’ve just recently started playing with baby dresses.   I’ve always wanted to try felting a garment in one piece, but never really got around to it. When my daughter was born, I owned a knitting store, so all of her dresses were either knit or crocheted.  Now that I’m felting full time, I haven’t had much of a reason to felt a baby dress until now.  The first dress was for baby Alaia Jane, born into our family about 3 weeks ago.  In Basque, Alaia means “Joy”.   We got to meet her this weekend and she simply took our breath away…  So perfect, so innocent, so precious… I’m in love…

A simple and natural, extra fine merino and silk dress with a crocheted scalloped edge in Manos del Uruguay’s Serena seemed just right.

I cut a template based on a dress that I had knit for my daughter for her first birthday.  By the fall, this will look so adorable with a tunic and a pair of wooly tights…

I loved felting this dress so much so, that I needed to felt a couple more right away, felting ADD if you will  (so many things I actually NEED to do, but let’s just start a new obsession anyway), typical Aries I suppose!  I started felting with the Short Fiber Merino from New England Felting Supply not too long ago, and from one felter to another, this merino is a felting game changer.  It’s UNBELIEVABLE to felt with,  it felts quickly and buttery soft to the touch and has incredible drape!  Yesterday i received another shipment of these amazing wool batts, and I will be felting as soon as I finish this post!  Here are the next two dresses I worked on.  The dress on the left was nuno felted over a piece of midnight blue chiffon, I love the spontaneous asymmetry of the silk, kind of fragile but really strong all at the same time…