Simple summer dress

Craft: Make a simple summer dress for my 3 year old daughter.

Inspiration: Summer is the time for swimming pools and flip flops. I wanted an easy dress that my daughter could wear during these days. Fabric stores often stock shirred fabric. My local fabric store had a variety of shirred cotton fabric that was just the right length for my daughter. This could also make a nice summer top for an older kid or adult. The elastic in the fabric is what will keep the dress in place, so you can make it strapless if you would like. If that is the case, just do steps one and two. This dress was the best for those pool/beach days. Yeah!

Make yours like mine:
Shirred fabric
Ribbon
Sewing machine
Needle and thread
Lighter or No Fray Glue


Steps:
1. Go to your local fabric store and get some shirred fabric and ribbon. At our local fabric store, they had two lengths: long or short. Get the short-sized one for a child. I just wrapped the fabric around my daughter to get the amount.
2. Sew up the dress.
3. Cut ribbon into four equal size pieces (should be long enough to tie for straps).
4. Use lighter on ends of ribbon to keep from fraying (can also use no-fray glue).
5. Sew ribbon onto dress.
6. Place dress on child.