My Second Attempt at a Children's Dress

Here is my second try on a children's dress. This time I added some ribbon on the front. When I tried it on my daughter (who again, threw a HUGE fit!) I realized I needed to take it in just a little so I did. I will attempt to try it on her again when she is in a better mood. Interested in knowing the cost of this dress? A yard of this fabric print was $4.44. I was able to make two dresses with it and still had some fabric left over. The ribbon would throw in a few extra cents, but it probably cost me $2.50 to make this.

My First Attempt at Sewing a Little Girl's Dress

Tonight I decided I needed to try to use up all of my fabric that I have before I go out and purchase anything new. I was asked if I was interested in a craft fair coming up at the end of October and I think I may give it a try. It may tell me what's hot and what's not! :) Here is all of the fabric I need to get creative with! I have used all of the patterns so far, this is just leftover fabric.

I wanted to try to make a little girls dress.

This is the dress from Kohl's that I already had that I used for the pattern. *I did not make the green dress! I hope to get there someday!

While I was sewing, I almost sewed up the arm holes and neck hole, just because I'm so used to turning pillows and bags inside out. Luckily I caught myself before I did it. Here is what it looked like.

Then I had decided to try it on my daughter and realized I had forgotten to sew the seams on the arms, the neck, and the bottom. I had only sewed up the sides, so I had to go back and fix my mistake. You can see the straps are much skinnier now, and next time I hope that they are a little more rounded, like in the photo above.

It can be a summer dress or you can put a long sleeve shirt under it for the fall/winter, like I did below.

And, here is my little girl throwing a fit after Mommy made her try it on!!! She was not very happy with me!