Trying tea time treat

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I am trying the 'Teatime Treat' dress in Rob Merrett's book 'Cute Clothes for Kids'. So far it is very straight forward, although I am not sure I'll do the ties next time as ODD wouldn't be safe climbing in it with them on!

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