End of a decade Christmas dresses

As in some previous years, I made Christmas dresses for all my four grand-daughters. They are now mostly old enough to be very specific as to what they would want. Two wanted 'shiny' , one wanted rainbows and unicorns, and one wanted nothing frilly, preferably red. So here's what I made. 

Paper Bag Top Trousers (or pants, to Americans!)

On a recent trip to India, I'd picked up some nice fabrics, all cotton woven, and I wanted to get on with making some summer clothes for the girls. One of my companions in India had bought some adorable little trousers for her grand-daughter in a shop in India, which only had very small sizes, so I wanted to make something similar, for the grand-daughter who will be three by the summer. The style is what I've seen called paper bag top. I'd seen a lot of patterns for 'paper bag' shorts and skirts, but I felt I could do this type of waistline / top without the need for a special pattern.

Once I'd started with paper bag tops, I couldn't stop! So I made 4 things: 1 pair of trousers and 2 pairs of shorts from a pattern, and a skirt from my own design.

In this post I'll be showing you the little trousers, top left. In another linked post, I'll give some tips in general about how to make paper bag tops to trousers, shorts and skirts, and show you the other three garments.