Go To Dress...Dress #2 Anthro Inspired Dress

The free dress pattern can be found at The Train to Crazy.

It is taking me a bit longer this week to get the pictures up of the dresses, hopefully the weather will cooperate a little more too.

Have no fear dress #2 is here...

I'm still debating whether or not to give it a waistband, but I like the flowing look of it.

My inspiration was from this...

found here. 

I will be making a skirt similar to this-maybe for Easter.

Things I did differently for this dress.

 For a ruffled sleeve and a box pleat I added extra width to the sleeve.

 For the box pleat on the sleeve I marked the center of the sleeve (the red pin) and pinned one inch from center.

 Then I flattened the one inch and pinned to the sleeve, this is the back view.

 This is the front view of the sleeve.

 Because I cut the sleeves wide I used piping to finish off the edge-no need for extra stretching.

Here is the finished edge of the sleeve.

Instead of gathering the back and front of the dress I decided to do box pleats. For the middle pleat I measured two inches out from center

The two outside pleats were 2 1/2 inches from the new center.

These outside pleats were only 1 inch deep.

 This is what it should look like before you sew it.

I basted the top edge of the pleats and finished it off with a gray strip of fabric as per the tutorial.

 For the bottom edge I used pre-packaged bias tape sewn together. I used a lot of pins for this part, sewing was a bit prickly.

 When I finished one row of the loops I added another layer. I didn't have enough to go all the way around three times so I went one and a half.  The front of the dress has two loops and the back only has one.

 Isn't it a fun design?

 Front and back view.

 I had yellow piping left over from the sleeves and finished the bottom edge.

 I still debating about the sleeves.  I like the look, but I might shorten them a bit.

 The yellow gives the dress and unexpected flare.

I'm sure a yellow corsage and a yellow headband would pull the dress together.