Grow With Me Dress!

I bought this cute lil dress at Kids Kraze for Elise. It was handmade and really cheap. Great steal really! I put her in it about a week ago and tons of people asked me if I had made it. This got me thinking I could so do this! So with help from my MIL(mother in law) I did it! Really it wound up taking 30 min to do. That included pins and sewing. Super easy design. Here's the kicker about the dress, at her age it fits as a dress but the way it ties up top it will also fit as a shirt till at least 6yrs! So I took pics of the whole process in case anyone wanted to make one.

So this is the pattern. You fold the fabric in half that your going to use and put this along the fold and trace and cut. Do this twice. I made it long enough to go to her knees.

This is what it should look like when you open the fold.

So when you start pinning do where the arms are first(the curve) then follow with the bottom(longest). After you sew these parts move to the top. Instead of making it like the other sides tuck it with plenty of room becuse you will be running ribbon thru the top. Make it a lil more then an inch thick. Once you have done this do the exact same to the other piece. Now that both are done put the two fronts together and only sew the sides leaving the bottom open and stop at the arms leaving that up open. Next you will cut a foot and half of silk ribbon. Two pieces.

Next I will teach you a tick my MIL taught me to run ribbon and such things thru fabric. Safety pin one end of the ribbon and bunch fabric up on it then pull. Continue this till its thru. Super fast! Here are pics of that process:

Until it looks like this:

Just again do this to both sides. Do you what I am saying about how it's made? That the way the ribbons are and the top that you can just tie it lose or tight. So this way it can grow with them. Kinda cool huh! I bought a couple different fabric patterns to make her a couple of them. I am willing to make a few for people if they cant make them. I was thinking $10.00 per a dress. Just contact me here. So anyone want to see her wearing it? I thought you would, so here is my beautiful Elise. Sorry she acts silly for the camera.

Trying to get a pic of the ribbons. Isn't she just cute with her dad(Daniel Mason)!