Elie has a fascination with dresses, and she has been begging me to make her a dress that goes to her feet. When searching
Pinterest, I came across this idea from
Sumo's Sweet Stuff that used a shirt to make a dress. I decided to give it a try, and Elie was quite pleased!
So the original idea has lots of details about how to sew the dress, but I will give you a few tips that I used. I would explain everything, but I am not an expert, by any means, in sewing. So when it comes to many of the terms in sewing, I am clueless.
The base of the shirt (front and back) measured 22 inches. I cut a piece of fabric 1 1/2 times the width of that (to allow for ruffling) for the piece that all of the ruffles would be sewn on to. So the 'under piece' measured 33 inches.
Then each ruffle was double the width of the shirt - so 44 inches each. I used three fat quarters to make 6 ruffles (I as able to get 2 complete ruffles from each fat quarter).
Once the ruffles were all sewn onto the base piece, I sewed it to the shirt. This was a tricky job, and it doesn't look perfect. Then the side was sewn closed, and it was ready to wear.
She ran around in the dress all day. It was definitely a long and tedious process that I may try to do again in a month or two. All in all, I spent about 10 hours making this dress, so hopefully next time it will go a little faster!
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