Shabby Apple Inspired Dress

As I was browsing over the lovely dresses at Shabby Apple, I stopped at this one, I thought, hey, I have a green t shirt I haven't worn in years and I happen to have some navy striped fabric leftover from this project. I can make myself a dress like this!

And I did it! It isn't identical, but I wasn't trying to copy the dress at shabby apple, just use it as inspiration. I am really happy on how it turned out, very cute and comfortable, best of all, it didn't cost me anything!!:

I started out with this t shirt from Forever 21, which I got years ago, But I never liked the turtle neck and it was to tight in the stomach:

I used my seam ripper and took off the turtle neck and the bottom part under the empire waist:

I made a elastic skirt. You can use this tutorial for more detail.

I measured my waist and cut the elastic to fit. I cut fabric double as wide as the elastic and sewed the seams:

I sewed my elastic:

I attached the elastic to the skirt (right sides together) I made sure the seam on the elastic lines up with the seam on the fabric:

I made some pleats, stretching the fabric as I pinned the pleats:

I sewed the fabric to the elastic, while stretching the elastic:

Then I inserted the t shirt into the skirt part (right sides together) and sewed the elastic to the shirt:

I measured and determined how long I wanted the dress to be, I cut off the access:

I ironed the hem about one inch:

And then folded over again and ironed:

I sewed the hem:

For the neckline, I trimmed it up a bit (for easy access for nursing) then I made a thin braid with some of the left over fabric from the bottom of the shirt:

And hand sewed it onto the neckline:

Then I made a thicker one and hand sewed it right underneath the thiner braid:

Like so:

Thats it!!

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