Ivy League dress and Thoughts about Hospital Stays

Well. Last week was a week.  Birdie had been severely sick over the weekend, and I thought she was on the mend by Monday, but she landed in the hospital overnight after turning septic sometime in the evening.  It was an eventful and unexpected turn, as you might imagine.  It took a while to get her stable in the ER and they told me right away she would be admitted.  She needed oxygen, IV fluids, and IV antibiotics, plus a lot of monitoring.  It was disconcerting to see our whirlwind girl so still and sick.  She stayed in the hospital until Thursday morning.  She was mostly off oxygen at that point, and had been off her IV fluids for 24 hours by then and was pretty perky.  I think the doctor might have been inclined to keep her another night had I not begged for discharge.  We had gotten a roommate the night previous and it was, to say the least, disruptive.  Our room was a single that had been converted into a double, it was crowded, I was getting sick, the three children at home were all sick, and I felt we just needed to get home.  It was the right decision, as I got pretty sick once we were home, and the rest of the kids really needed to be looked after as well.

I had put up my posts last week before everything went down, so I imagine my belated "update" on my Yarn Along post made no sense to most people.  On the upside, everyone went back to school yesterday, and the kids mostly seem over it.  I'm still a bit congested in my lungs, and just feel exhausted from being awake from Thursday-Wednesday (including a 48-hours-straight stretch from Monday-Tuesday).  I have some friends bringing meals this week, which is a great help, as I am just overwhelmed with household tasks right now.  I find the week after discharge is actually more difficult than the week in the hospital, because all the kids are off since they can't really understand what happened, the child who was in the hospital is still a little shocked by everything that was done to her, and we parents are just exhausted from adrenaline withdrawal and the whole ordeal.

So let me show you a dress I made a few weeks ago, k?

This is the same spotty dot fabric from Michael Miller that I made last summer, but in a different color way.  There ended up being a lot of issues with the fit of that dress, and I ended up not keeping it.  I had bought this fabric online in the meantime, however, and since the color combination just said "spring" to me, I decided to save it for this season. It is a pretty straight forward Dottie Angel frock, no real changes to note, except I used the pocket from my Swirl dress pattern, just for something different.   I did have to redo the elastic on this dress because it came out too loose the first time, but I think it is fine now.  

This one also came out just a smidge shorter than the other ones, but it is still at the bottom of my knee, so I think it is okay.  I know what I did differently to have it come out shorter, and I fixed it on the dress I made after this one.  

I think this color scheme is really preppy looking.  I have a bright green cardigan that is a good match to the green dots, but it is lighter weight than the weather called for, so I put a knit shirt underneath instead.  I'm still a little chilly this morning, but it is supposed to get up in the 60s later today, so I'll be fine this afternoon!  

I almost did visible bias on this dress, in green, but my green bias was just a little bit off color-wise, and didn't quite look right.  So I went with my standard bias treatment, still using the green.  It is a nice little peek of color around the neckline and sleeve cuffs.  

I do think this is one of those dresses that doesn't photograph particularly well, but I'll try not to let that influence me.  All in all, a good spring dress.

Just the facts:

Ivy League dress: Michael Miller fabric, Simplicity 1080 with modifications, elastic, bias tape

Michael Starrs knit undershirt: ThredUp

Tights: Foot Traffic (in Heather Mocha)

Necklace: from Georgia (the country)

Earrings: Etsy 

Boots: Macy's