Circle Neck Dress

So this week I made Mady a dress.

Actually I made her 3 dresses.

And a skirt.

( I'll post pictures as soon as I can coax a smile out of her each time she's wearing these suckers. She is a moody 3 year old after all).

But this dress I made the pattern too. And unlike my last attempt, it actually worked.

You see, I had been looking for ideas for dresses online one night and I kept seeing the ones that have the round neck/straps (where the neckline is part of the straps in kind of a donut shape). And then I got it stuck in my head that this was the style of dress I wanted to make next.

So I looked for a tutorial. I couldn't find one.

I could find patterns I would have to pay for, but I could tell it was literally 4 pieces. Actually 2 pieces cut 2 times. I just didn't want to spend money on a pattern for that. I figured I could do it myself.

So I thought about it and studied pictures and eventually I did figure it out!

And here is the end result:

Cute huh?

I can think of all sorts of ways to make it more fun:
-A contrasting neck piece
-ric rac
-little fabric flower or bows
-ruffles at the bottom (I'm kind of obsessed with ruffles...)
-Ribbon (doesn't ribbon just make everything better?)

Mady's favourite part are the little purple polka dots right here:

I won't tell you how many times I had to rip things out. Logic doesn't always come naturally to my creative brain and I may have assumed that fabric could pass through itself in an attempt to turn it right side out. So that explains why I didn't add the embellishments on this exact dress, but now that I have the pattern, I will be making variations!

I'll get a tutorial to you soon so that you can make your own too.

Edited to add: You can now find the tutorial here.

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