Ivy Hisselpenny

The decoration of the dress was the best part. It’s an important distinction that Ivy does not wear ugly clothes, she wears ridiculous clothing. Pink and mint green for example, and different shades of pink at that, make for an unlikely but strangely palatable pair. I would have liked a more outrageous fabric, but this pink floral cotton was in retrospect kind of perfect, I’ll have to send my thanks to the lady on facebook marketplace that sold it to me. The skirt has a total of twelve hand stitched bows in four different colours, the back bows being the most extravagant; they are bows on top of a larger bow.

This is echoed in the hat at the base of the largest greenest feather I could find. The hat pattern itself is McCalls, it being the first hat I’ve ever made, I needed instructions, though I quickly abandoned them once hot glue became involved and opted for a heavy thread and some very sore thumbs instead. At each stage in the decoration, I asked my roommates “Is this too many flowers/too much ribbon etc” and the moment they said yes, I added one more for safety and called it done. Though I wanted it to be even bigger and more ostentatious, the structural integrity of the hat was at stake, and thus it has been left at maximum capacity.