Guest Blogger Sunday {Bless}

Thanks so much for coming by to Guest Blogger Sunday!! Today, Tone from Bless is sharing a wonderful tutorial of making a grown up version of one of one of my favorite ideas! Check it out! 

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Hi, I am Tone from Bless. I started my blog back in February. I love to blog and I love to be creative. I think, I like sewing the most, but making things from wood is a good second. Today I will show you the pillowcase dress, the adult way. - And sorry for the quality of my pictures. My model was painting her house and not able to model the second dress - and my six year old had to step in... makes for funny pictures.

Click "Read More" for the rest of the awesome tutorial!

This is the dress - a different dress than shown in the tutorial, given to my 21 year old cousin.

Decide how long you want the dress. I made this one for a young girl, shorter than me, so I made it about 30 inches from shoulder - but when you measure your fabric, you have to measure from right under your collar bone. Cut out two pieces- I used a shirt as a guide- I made the front neckline lower than the back. 

Sew the side seams and hem the bottom. The fabric I used today was a knit fabric and I didn't hem it, I only sewed a lace on top of it.

Picture 1: Fold in the sleeve opening and sew.

Picture 2: Front and back neckline - fold down, make room for an elastic and sew.

Picture 3: Thread an elastic through the front. Sew it on one of the sides. Decide how much elastic you want before you cut it off - it should be wrinkled, but not so much that you don't have room for your boobs (is that allowed to say???) Sew the other side, then repeat on back piece.

Picture 4: Will look like this - then cut off elastic.

Now for shoulder straps:

Picture 5: Today I used a wide lace and attached elastic to the back of it. Pull the elastic while sewing it on the lace. On the first picture - I sewed a casing and put an elastic inside before I attached it to the dress.

Picture 6: Attach to the dress.

Now wear the dress with a sash or a belt.

Too cute in her grown up dress.

Back view - wearing shorts underneath

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Thank you so much for your attention, and for having me. I'm very happy for visitors - especially those that leave a comment! I have plenty of tutorials to show you on my blog.
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Wasn't that such a great tutorial!!  I love the finished dress, looks so cute and comfortable!
Thanks Tone!!!