Flashback Friday- Thread crochet blessing dress

I actually bought the pattern for this dress back in Japan when I first got interested in Thread crochet.  We weren't pregnant yet, but getting ready for it.  Then the next baby was a boy, so this didn't work.  Then we had a miscarriage and THEN got pregnant with this little girl.  But because of the miscarriage I was nervous to start it, and couldn't quite get as invested until pretty far along into my pregnancy.  Good thing I get manic once I get started.  I finished this dress start, restart (the gauge wasn't quite right and after doing half the top I restarted) to finish took 2 weeks!

Making the under dress was more of a challenge.  I had to make the pattern up myself.  The dress itself fit great, but the under dress was a bit too tight!  But isn't this dress exquisite?  You can't see it but there are small pink beads crochet into the dress.  I bought a second pattern from the same designer.  I wonder if I'll get to make it ever (hint hint hubby!)

It had a sweet little hat too.  I should have made it bigger as well, it barely fit around her noggin!  We moved when she was 5 weeks old so I didn't get around to getting her professional pictures taken until she was 2 months old!  Luckily it still fit, barely!

These shoes!  SOOO precious, but the shoes I made to fit the pattern didn't even come CLOSE to fitting my Sasquatch.  I doubled the footprint size, and it was still too small in the end.  But it fit for this one day, and really that's all it needed to fit for!