New Dress for Alexis

So I had a crazy idea to make a dress for Alexis. It started when I saw this shirt at Wal-Mart for a buck. Loved the phone booth and numbers on it...but being it is a Milie Cyris shirt a women's small is really for a 10 year old. So I though "what can I make from this?"

I picked up the shirt and on my next trip to the fabric store found this faded looking super soft red knit that matched perfect! Best of all, it was only 1.95 per yard!!

So I took it home and let the ideas get started. I cut the dress from a jean jumper that I like the fit of. Took the sleeves off the original t-shirt and re-attached and trimmed them down on the new dress. I then made two very large ruffles and attached them to the bottom of the dress. A small band of the red around the neck (which I'm not totally happy with it flipping over) and I was done. No hemming since I re-used the existing hem on the sleeve and the bottom has the ruffle covering it. I even made a matching headband out of the extra fabric from the bottom of the T and the left over red fabric from trying to cut it straight. (man that fabric was cut SOOO crooked it was unbelievable!!)

All and all, I think it's pretty darn cute (especially on such a little cutie!). A totally custom dress for a whole 3 bucks! Can't beat that!