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The Edelweiss Dress: A New Pattern + Giveaway! {giveaway closed}

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I’m very excited to introduce my next pattern, The Edelweiss Dress!

This is a cute little sundress, featuring an empire waisted bodice, ruffled straps, an easy buttoned back, and a gathered skirt in sizes 18 months – 10 years!

I think it’s perfect for casual spring days at the playground or you can use fancy fabrics to dress it up for a summer wedding too!  Have fun mixing prints between the skirt, bodice, and ruffles, or go for a color-blocked look.

My favorite part of this dress is the small area in the front center bodice that is perfect for featuring a favorite fabric, a piece of embroidery, a vintage hanky, or really anything that is special to you and deserves to be front and center.  The bodice pattern also includes a pieced option in case you only have a small scrap of special fabric.  In this version, I used the mini-tutorial included with the pattern to create a chevron effect with stripes.

There is also a tunic-length option for the girl who prefers to wear it with leggings, a cute pair of shorts, or her favorite skinnies.

As always, this Hey June pattern comes complete with a 40 page .pdf document including:
– directions for printing and tiling the pattern
– notes on getting the best fit and how to do minor alterations
– many different suggestions to save you paper and ink
– a full sized pattern in sizes 18 months – 10 years – just print and cut the size you need, no tracing necessary!
– clear digitally illustrated sewing directions for every step

You can get the Edelweiss Dress pattern today over at the Hey June shop!

BUT, if you’re feeling lucky, you can enter below for a chance to win the Edelweiss Dress pattern along with the Narita Dress and the Greenpoint Cardigan patterns!

Just leave a comment below telling us how you know spring has sprung in your area.  We’ll draw a winner on May 10.  Open to anyone in the world with an email address, void where prohibited, one comment per person.  Please make sure you leave your email address in your comment if it isn’t linked to your profile!

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  1. Love the new dress, it is adorable! Spring has sprung all the flowers have already bloomed and the school schedule tells me the end of school is near, however my 50 degree weather is telling me otherwise!

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  4. Such a cute dress! The spring “sprung” here by dropping 3 inches of snow last weekend :/ I think that things may be looking up now though! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  8. oh my gosh…i love your dresses….where have you been? i haven’t ever seen them….so excited to have a new find….being a winner would be amazing! thanks for the chance :)

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  10. Spring has long been sprung–the pollen has fallen and is now a distant albeit unpleasant memory. Now we anxiously await the opening of the magnolias and gardenias.

    chelligirl1 (at) gmail (dot) com

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  13. All the tulips popped up and the grass got green…then it snowed last week! Ha! But it feels back to Spring today with some warmer temps and buds on the trees.
    Beautiful new pattern!
    elisabet3 (at) excite (dot) com

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  16. You can tell it’s spring in Michigan because everyone has replaced their winter wardrobes with summer ones, and they refuse to dig out a jacket or scarf even if the temps dip back down again!

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  17. These are adorable!! Love it with the skinnies! Spring has sprung here because our pup spends his days laying in the front yard instead of on my bed!

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  19. So cute!! I especially love that you have included a placket! So many patterns that I want don’t but I need one that tells me how to do it!! Spring has sprung here because I woke up to a clean car since it rained all night!

    Thanks for the opportunity!

    ellyman23@gmail.com

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  20. Hi… Spring in Holland is as turbulant as can be… But today we enjoyed the sun, a barbecue in the garden and lots of fun with my three year old daugther in a little swimming pool! We count our blessings!

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  21. It’s eighty degrees and sunny here! I think my toddler got muddier and filthier this weekend than he ever has in his life!

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  22. OHHHHH congrats on another great pattern! I know spring is here because I can’t see our neighbors across the street anymore because the leaves are back on the trees.

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  23. Spring is definitely here and I know it because… WAIT! I’m not sure it has sprung; it was SNOWING here just two days ago. Seriously? tasha dot early at gmail dot com

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  24. I know Spring has Spring when everyone is sneezing! The pollen is horribly thick in Atlanta! But the fresh fruits and veggies make it all worth while!

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  26. So cute!! I especially love the colorful stripey chevron-y one!
    Over here in Tanzania, it is getting colder (60’s/low 70’s counts as cold right? Feels like it!). But, I can tell the season is changing because it has started raining less and getting dusty instead. :)

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  29. I know Spring has Sprung when we’re on a bike ride and, instead of cold & rain, we have sun and bugs! Sunglasses are a must for both reasons :)

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  30. Adorable! In Seattle, we see cherry blossoms that hint at spring in February, but in March we get daffodils, tulips and rhodies

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  31. I know spring has sprung because my 4 year old son has started wearing his vintage mesh shirts again ;). jen(at)red(dash)curls.com

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  33. It’s still a little chilly here, but we know it’s officially spring because we have been overrun by dandelions! And then of course we all have the allergies that come with them ;D

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  35. Today is the first warm day in my neck of the woods – in my book – but I know it’s spring bc my kids have been running around the yard naked for weeks! I’m clearly behind in making some spring clothes! I sure could use these patterns! Thanks!

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  36. My tulips are blooming (tho the daffodils haven’t yet) and a robin built a nest and laid eggs in a flower pot on my porch (left from last year with nothing growing in it yet). Also, it hasn’t snowed in almost a week now! lol
    joellemarie72 at yahoo dot com

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  37. Living in northern Canada, we still have some snow on the ground that is slowly, slowly melting…hoping it will be gone by the weekend! we know it is spring when the bugs come out and yard sales start popping up everywhere!

    adriennespornitz at gmail dot com

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  42. We just got rid of the last of our snow 2 weeks ago. The grass has finally greened up this week! My kids are spending LARGE amounts of time outside now!
    brooke at richardchurch dot com

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  46. We can’t tell spring has sprung yet- it’s May and I’m still wearing a sweater in South Louisiana. That’s unheard of!

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  48. My kids have been collecting ladybugs, they want to keep them as pets…
    Today was the first dress-day in the Netherlands. I hope it sets a trend and many more will follow!

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  49. I know it is spring when the farmers start spreading manure on the fields. We live in between two farms so we get to enjoy that rather odious spring ritual.

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  52. What a fabulous giveaway, we are in Fall over here but the weather is still quite warm but the rain is coming more often and it’s greening up outside.

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  54. so so cute. I love these patterns. I like that they go so far up in size – it makes it so easy to sew them for both of my girls.

    and we have had a great spring so far in Florida. I am so sorry to say that because I feel so bad for those that aren’t having great weather. Spring is the best season.

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  57. This year spring has brought the worst allergies I’ve ever had. Glad for the rain today to clear the pollen out of the air.

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  61. I love the new dress!! Spring is definitely here – it was over 90 for the past few days, and then today the temp dropped 20 degrees;)

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  64. I’m in the wrong hemisphere! Can I say that Autumn (Fall) has finally arrived with the beautiful changing of leaves instead? Would love to make these dresses in a corduroy for layering this winter and again next spring for the warmer weather in a cotton =)

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  65. I love this dress! So versatile!

    I know spring has sprung in Tennessee because we have green everywhere! The leaves and grass are a riot of green hues. Also, the film of green pollen is deeper than any amount of snow we could ever have! :D

    Thegrimtuesday at gmail

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  68. I just found you on IG & I love your new pattern! Such am adorable design! I’d love to win. :-) I can tell Spring is here bc the kids are outside playing everyday! :-)

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  75. How I know that spring is here? I’m sweating whenever I go outside! Its hot already!

    My Babe is in size 18m now! At only 8 months! Crazy huh? But the good thing is: she will fit into the dress! So please, can I have it? ;)

    corne.lia.roehrer (at) gmail.com

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  76. spring springs here when the flowering trees come out! they’re almost done here, so i’m going to go ahead and say that it’s most definitely spring!

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  80. It’s hard to tell when Spring has come in Cleveland (Ohio) since there is usually snow on the ground until May! LOL! atabanana29(at)gmail(dot)com

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  81. We keep bees. So spring means installing packages of bees and feeding sugar water until they are good and established for the season.

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  90. Love the patterns, all of them! They will make great summer clothes! I live in Colorado so it is not the right weather for those things yet. I know spring has sprung because the snow has been heavy, wet and melts quickly in the last three storms. Yeah. Colorado snows every May. At least once.

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  93. We only get a few (maybe) weeks of spring in my area. We’ve already been having 90+ degree weather the past few weeks. I’m quite happy though because I love warm weather.

    cochina1414 at yahoo dot com

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  94. Spring has definitely arrived when we see the hummingbirds and the deer with their new fawns. Thanks for the giveaway chance!

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  95. These patters are adorable!! Well, I’ve lived in the midwest nearly all my life and we moved to California last summer so its kind of like winter never really came… Just an extended fall and now we are pretty much summer weather! I kinda like it :)

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  96. I’m in Illinois and everything is blooming. The grass needs cut and everything is covered in a yellow layer of pollen. And my favorite way, the sun is shining in the window.

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  98. Very cute dress. Spring has sprung here in pa. because all our flowering bushes and trees have those beautiful flowers. ANd the trees mostly all have their leaves but they are the light green shades, not dark yet.

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  102. Spring has definitely sprung, our veggie patch is looking greener by the day! I’m so excited, it’s our first year in the new house it’s nice to see we’ve chosen a good patch to grow our favourite vegetables!

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  104. Spring has sprung here as we are not having any more cool weather. We never really get a winter, maybe a couple of freezing days but Thant is about it. The butterflies and humming birds are back in the garden along with many species of birds as they start heading back north. The wild parrots are back. And the best part are the baby birds are starting to stretch their wings and fly out of their nests. The straggler getting a little nudge from momma as if to say come on get a move on now we don’t have all day to wait on you, we have places to go and things to see LOL. It’s so cute.
    My email : fuzzy509@gmail.com

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  106. I know it is spring when I don’t feel like I am freezing to death anymore. And i can stop living in sweats & fleece 24 hours a day. Thank you for the chance to enter yoru giveaway.

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  111. Spring has sprung – It can be warm enough for a skirt & sandals when I go to work in the early morning, but FREEZING by the time recess rolls around. (I teach.)

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  114. Spring has sprung when my daughter’s birthday and my niece and nephews birthdays and my wedding anniversary all start rolling around.

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  115. Unfortunately in Sacramento, the first sign of spring is allergies! Most people who live here develop them and just about everyone I know is miserable for the first 2-3 weeks of spring.

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  116. Daffodils. Although They usually peak out as the snow is having it’s last hooray and I am always worried that they will die because of it. They never do and spring comes quickly after that.

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  117. all the pretty colors. Spring in the Pac NW are just lovely…the sky is blue the grass is green the flowers are out…lovely! Thanks!

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  119. We had about 2 days of spring and have jumped straight into summer! 10 days ago we had a heavy snowfall and very cold temps, and then this past week there have been days hot enough to go out in shorts and play with water in the yard. The tulips started pushing their leaves out of the snow about 2 weeks ago and the heat is making them bloom very quickly, even before they are very tall. Central Alberta is very strange – we always say, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes.”

    Thanks for the chance! I have two giveaways happening too: http://www.craftyhour.com

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  120. Spring has sprung cold here. I know the people up north would laugh at me for saying that but we have had highs in the lower 60s. That is around 20 degrees lower than it is here normally. I grew up in the south and don’t ever remember it being so chilly in May.

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  121. I know spring has sprung in my neck of the woods when everyone breaks out their shorts and flip flops. Down here in FL, we try to just wait out the short winter so we can put away our 4 sweaters and break out our 20 pairs of shorts! :)

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  125. Spring sprang almost two weeks ago and then mid-last week we ended up with 3″+ of snow on the ground (after whatever melted). Temps will be cool this weekend but I think spring is finally here. At least all my flowers survived the cold snap

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  126. When the blossom, daffies and tulips finally put in an appearance… The hint of spring is when it gets too warm for my down jacket. Thanks for the chance, you’ve got some lovely patterns!

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