It's Thursday evening and I finally finished my entry for the Project Run and Play Spring formal week. Talk about cutting it close!
This was the most labor intensive children's dress I have ever made. Each of those layers have a narrow hem, individually pressed and sewn without a narrow hem foot. One of these days I am going to invest in some attachments for my machine.
Each ruffle is calculated to be exactly 30% smaller than the original strip of fabric (which by the way are either 4 or 5 in width depending on where they are placed) to create a more fluttery than ruffly look.
I also fitted this dress on a very squirmy 6 year old a total of 3 times before I got it just right.
At least I managed to get the photos taken before it started to rain.
I plan to share a step by step tutorial sometime this week, with lots of pictures, but for now I am going to take a nap!
Update: The tutorial is finished. You can see it here!
