What I've been working on.

Here is another project I tried recently. I have a lot of t-shirts that are worn or have spots or holes in them. I have been saving them for sewing. I took a shirt from Old Navy. You know those great thick cotton shirts they use to sell before they stated all this "tissue weight" t-shirt nonsense where it is now essential to wear a shirt layered, never can you just wear it by itself. Sigh.

Anyway. I have seen around the web instructions on making kids pants with old t-shirts. I wanted to make a dress. So I traced a dress (the one that Miss Jennie V got her) that D has been wearing lately and added some length and seam allowances and made the bottom flair out. Mom coached me over the phone on how to sew jersey material. She said I had to use a ball-point needle and suggested a zig-zag stitch. I lined it up so the hem of the original shirt was now the hem of the dress. I left the neck and arms raw edges so they raveled kind of cool. I also added the ribbon across the waist. She (obviously) wore it over a white shirt and jeans in this picture.

We took several pictures of Dorothy in the dress and this was the only one that turned out! She kept lifting her feet and marching. Also keep in mind this is the end of a very busy day, so that explains the blur and the random spots on her new dress.