Handmade Elephant Dress // Project Restyle

Hello again fellow re-fashionistas!

It's been a while since I was last on here forgive me, my laptop has decided to break down and the only ways I have to blog are through my iphone (not very practical) or on my boyfriends computer.

So that's what I'm doing now!

Handmade Elephant Dress

A few weeks ago during my dressmaking obsession I made a little shift dress with sleeves out of this rather large bohemian maxi type of dress. *points up!* It didn't fit as the crochet top half was tiny so I used the fabric to make a different kind of dress. I basically cut the crochet top half off and unstitched the fabric I was about to use and folded it out to its full size, then drew out my basic dress pattern and made sure it was twice the size I wanted.

I don't use patterns, I just roughly draw out the shape I need, only bigger and work from there. Cutting out the shape, pinning it together and taking it in as I stitch along. Simples :) This fabric was really nice to use, it stretched slightly so I wasn't worried about making it too small, in the end it fit nice and hung slightly loose. Perfect for those humid days and hot summery nights!

Here's the finished dress, I always get really stuck into my projects and constantly forget to include during the process step by step pictures.. But this pattern was pretty much the same for the raspberry crush dress in my previous post, only I added sleeves which aren't too hard to make.

Sorry for lack of in-between pictures! >_<

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XOXO