Mens shirt to little girl's dress

I've hardly posted lately :( I've been busy making lots out of my fabric stash but nothing refashioned. I've just found this tutorial I had saved but forgot to post *facepalm* It's quite old now and I still haven't finished it off yet *must get motivated!!* It's finished enough to wear though so I figured I'll finish off later :P

I looked through my refashion pile (which btw seems to be getting bigger not smaller! How does that work? Must refashion more!) and found this old shirt that Paul gave me a while back. He didn't really like it on so he happily donated it to me.

I decided to make a little girl's dress out of it. I was inspired by this tutorial by Girl. Inspired. I decided I didn't want to do the shirring along the waist (didn't want to...find shirring impossible...whatever lol, same difference in my house). I cut it to be a quite fitted, knee length a-line dress, then added puffed sleeves for which I used this tutorial at MADE.

I ended up with this:

I have yet to finish the bands on the sleeves but I need to find some plain black shirt material first so I'll be charity shopping/Primark-ing it next time I'm in town to find some. Seems a shame to buy a whole shirt just to make two little sleeve bands so I might have to use the rest of the black shirt to make another smaller dress and use leftovers from this one so my two babies can match :) Cute!