Upcycle sewing project #2: Women's Shirt into Girls Candy Cane Dress

JOURNAL OF WHAT I DID. 

I used this very loved and kind of stained brown tunic that is a girls small you see above to trace and make a pattern. To make the pattern I folded the tunic in half and traced it onto freezer paper. I cut this women's striped shirt apart that I got for about $4 at Old Navy last spring. I originally got this to make a 4th of July dress, but never got to it...

I saw it last week and thought OR A CANDY CANE DRESS!

 

I lined up the front and back of the dress so the hems could be re-used I also was able to use the original neckline and buttons. Then I dry ironed the freezer paper stencil onto the folded front of the I used the sleeve pattern by just tracing a sleeve from one of her favorite long sleeve shirts. 

 

I think this sounds confusuing so next time I am going to take more pictures. Besides little sister is lamenting that she doesn't have a candy cane dress. I am out of this fabric, but I am going to make her a similar dress with another clearance shirt. Look for that in the next week or two!

SKILLS USED:

• Shopping in the clearance section to buy fabric. 4 bucks + 1 hour = a dress my kids fight over.
• Using a well loved tunic as a pattern to make a new one with sleeves.
• Using a serger to finish the seams.
• Eating Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Almonds with sea salt

THINGS I WOULD DO DIFFERENT NEXT TIME:
I would have lined this with another shirt (which I did the next day in the next project I made her. More on that later). I also would probably make full length sleeves. After the 3rd project with 3/4 sleeves I made her she said "I am not liking these quarter sleeves all the time". Ha.

If you make something like this or are inspired to do a similar project leave a comment and let me know and/or leave a link to it!