That's exactly what it is. And we had a fantastic example yesterday actually. I sewed Jay a whole new winter wardrobe before Christmas (Think french terry, sweater knits, velvet, etc nice and warm) because she'd just had another growth spurt and was getting low on certain items. Yesterday I put a pair of trousers on that I've literally only just made her and she's had another growth spurt since Christmas, they were two inches too short in the leg! I had a friend ring me just before DD put them on saying "I'm just nipping home for a shower and then we're picking you guys up" So I took Jays trousers, ripped the hem stitching out (three rows of it because I've left insanely long hems on her trousers, some are nearly the same length as the actual trouser *looks pointedly at her waterproofs* unfolded them, re hemmed them and she had trousers that fit her before we got the phone call to say friend had set off. If I'd saved money on shop bought, I'd have had to have added flares to the hems and made them into bell bottoms (not great for soft play) or bought the right length and taken them in, very saggy in the ass. If I'd bought custom, I'd be left with outgrown trousers in a couple of months. Because I've made them knowing her and knowing the fabrics, and I've been able to make them in a good enough quality that even after two years my early sews are still being worn, and I usually make them with hidden allowances because the kid never stops growing!
I made her an A-line dress two years ago when she was horse mad...but real horses, not cartoon horses. Cannot find real horses for under 1's! It's just impossible! So I bought some really expensive fabric and made her a dress that while it couldn't grow with her because she was too small to built hidden let downs and let outs into her clothes at that point, I did want her to be wearing it for years, so I made an outfit that would transition beautifully from dress to top and the measurements had to be perfect to get the wide neckline to actually sit on my tiny girl without her going through it as she was doing with shop bought wide necks. Just straight through the neckhole. It was quite funny. She's three and you'd never guess the tunic was actually made as a dress, while everything store bought from the time has been thrown away because it's disintegrated through active use or been given away because it's totally outgrown.
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This thing is thrown in a 60 degree wash, tumble dried, worn rock climbing, she did parkour in it, she wore it dancing, she's done roly polys (summersaults) across the length of town (I wish I was exaggerating...I'm not!) she attends a very active adventure playground weekly group in it, rolls in mud, puts it through hell... It looks like I made it yesterday! But it's quality fabric and re-inforced seams. In fact, the only thing giving away it's age is the buttonloop elastic needs replacing as it's been worn so much it no longer has any stretch to it
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