Butterfly Dress Saga - Part 3 - Shirred version

And you thought I was done with Butterfly dresses. ( Read how it all started in Part 1 and Part 2 ). No way!
As I promised, I finally tried my hand at shirring around the neck and despite the picture looking like angel wings etc, it actually looks pretty good on the little one.
Here's the complete dress:

Get the original tutorial here ( Sewing in no mans land). Here're the changes I made to it:
1. Took a single fold of fabric for sleeves instead of double
2. Shirred 4 rows of elastic around the neck instead of gathering it.
3. Finished the sleeves with rolled hem. ( Here's a great tutorial for rolled hems )
4. Hand Embroidered some leaves around the front neck, just wanted to give the dress some pick-me-up.

My entries for kids clothing week

Elsie over at Elsie Marley is having an amazing series called Kids Clothing Week where the participants commit to spending one hour a day everyday for a week to sew clothes for children.
Here's what I made yesterday:

A simple pair of pants.

A set of shirred dress along with a simple pant with a contrasting band to go with it. I don't really love this fabric but I have a lot of it just sitting there, so I once shirred it on a whim. Recently when I got my serger, I took a long look at it again and finally used some of it. I think I like it now that it has been paired with a cheery bright red.
I have more of that pink fabric above and I would like to try a new dress pattern to go with them, which judging by my recent sewing adventures, will be a flop. I'm planning to show you some of the things that want to make me bang my head to the closest wall, and might make you laugh a little ( or more).