Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Isabella Dress

I love checking out the fall color combinations. So inspiring. Teal and red, plum and brown, and most of all yellow and gray. I decided to make a dress of the later color combo when I found this adorable fabric by Michael Miller. I LOVE IT! OBSESSED! Here is what I came up with:

I started with a basic t-shirt and dyed it yellow using RIT dye. The shirt actually had a few stains so it was good to reuse something I already had in stock.

Next I cut out circles of gray felt. (Use fabric felt not craft felt).

I laid all my circles in the pattern I wanted and started pinning from the bottom. Sewing each circle down in each row, and back stitch at each end.




The shirt was cute like this but I decided to add a skirt section making it a t-shirt dress. For more information on how to add the skirt check out this tutorial.



I love making t-shirt dresses because they are so comfy. She can wear it to church or just for playing.

I'm linking up here.

21 comments:

  1. What a sweet little dress and adorable model! You did a great job!

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  2. This is so cute!! Thanks for sharing with Blog Stalking Thursday!

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  3. What a fun dress! Don't you love it when you find a way to reuse something that has been "ruined"?! Your little girl is adorable!

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  4. Sew dang cute ;) I just LOVE dying fabric! It gives it a whole new life!

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  5. This is SO adorable! Thank you for sharing. I found your blog from the passionately Artistic Party. I'm your newest follower. I'd love you to stop by my blog & maybe follow along too!
    Thanks!
    Sally
    loveofhomes.blogspot.com

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  6. Very grown-up looking! Love it! Thanks for linking to Things I've Done Thursday.

    Melanie
    bearrabbitbear.blogspot.com

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  7. thanks for the tutorial, i might do this with my daughter's shirt.
    http://momdaughterstyle.blogspot.com/

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  8. Hello, just wanted to let you know that I have mentioned this post on my blog. Please let me know if there is anything you would like me to remove.
    Cheers
    Jennifer
    www.eatcraftsow.blogspot.com

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  9. cuteness, cuteness, cuteness. Great job!!

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  10. This is the most darling dress ever! Love the colors! I featured your project today on Sew Woodsy$!

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  11. Eeee!!! That is adorable! I agree, that fabric is pretty awesome - I can understand being totally obsessed :D And, what a cutie-pa-tootie model! She reminds me a lot of my Isabelle :)

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  12. I can't wait to have a girl just so I can do this.

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  13. Oh wow! I love this! You did a great job and thanks for the great step-by-step tutorial. I saw this on the Reasons to Skip the Housework link-up!

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  14. I love your adorable take on the T shirt dress! I have a little sewing and fabric craft linky party I'm starting tomorrow and I was wondering if you could be so kind to stop by and post it? Thanks so much!
    Sew Country Chick

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  15. Perfection. I love little girls in dresses-mine lived in them at that age.

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  16. oh sooo ccutie. thanks for sharing.

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  18. This dress is so pretty! I love the gray and yellow together:>

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  19. DARLING! Where do you buy the dye? I have a few stained white shirts I would like to dye :)
    wtrbaby6@hotmail.com

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