So yesterday I finished a dress I was working on. It went actually really fast and I am super happy with it. I wanted to make this dress after seeing some inspiration on the Anthropologie website. Gorgeous dress, a little pricey. So here's the dress they're selling.



Cute, right? For a total amount of $25, I made this:







With a few modifications, a different neck line, and a ribbon belt. Took about 3 and a half yards of cotton jersey, and a total of 6 packages of hem tape (navy ribbon).
I loved figuring out the circle skirt. I used this tutorial, http://andreatung.blogspot.com/2006/04/diy-circle-skirts.html

Stripey Dress

I just finished making this dress, I'm so excited for it to get warmer here so I can wear it! I really love how this turned out. Again, a bargain at Wal-Mart. I know that's terrible. I got 4 yards of this fabric for 6 dollars. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with it when I bought it but I just really liked it.

I was watching project runway, the last episode, before the finale, someone had used a stripe fabric and had pleated it so the darker stripe was solid, and the the bright stripe peeps out under the pleats. So that's what I did with this. The amount of pleats I had to accomplish was astonishing. More than 200 pleats later:



The rest of the design, I don't really know what inspired it. It was just fun to figure the pattern out. I LOVE the backless part of it. It was wicked easy too, and I didn't need to buy a ridiculously long zipper to go up the back.