Yep, messed up already.
Measuring how wide I want it to be.
LENGTH! Is a huge issue for me.
Getting ready to put the elastic in.
Pin it the the end once your done.
Finished product.
So. I made a dress last year, took all of these photos and then left for Ireland. I completely forgot about the dress, until I was going through my closet the other day!
So, I am wearing it to work tomorrow! But I also took pictures as I was making it that I STILL HAVE!!
I am a self-taught sewer, so I really don’t know what I am doing. Just sort of feeling it out. I have used patterns before, but I didn’t for this or most of my previous projects.
I made this dress out of a vintage sheet I found in a thrift store. I fell in love with the pattern, and decided to make something out of it. Found a tank top at forever 21 for $2 which would be way too short for my torso and turned these two items into a fabulous tank dress!
The cool thing about sheets is that they already have a lot of the sewing done for you, I just cut the sheet after I fitted it to my hips. I added extra room because I wanted it to be a comfy dress that I could dress up or dress down.
Something I did learn from this is that next time I make a dress like this I will put the elastic in the skirt AFTER I sew it on to the tank. I got ahead of myself and put the elastic in first before attaching the tank, and it was a lot more challenging to sew. I did it by hand, and that takes FOREVERRRRR. lol.
But I love how it turned out and will take a photo of me in it tomorrow!
<3
