"Re-purposed Spring Dress"

I have seen various posts about "re-purposing" your child's too small clothing or turning your old t-shirts into adorable dresses for your daughter.  I have admired their talent, but had decided that I couldn't do that.  Well, I had all of the inspiration that I needed after seeing an absolutely adorable re-purposed dress from Make It and Love It http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/05/re-purposing-t-shirt-into-dress.html.  I set off on a search for one of my daughters too small shirts and some random fabric in my stash!  I came up with a too small cute white shirt and this colorful striped fabric.

I followed a few different tutorials.  The first is from http://www.olemissmom.com/2009/07/summertime-sewing-t-shirt-dress.html and http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/05/re-purposing-t-shirt-into-dress.html .  I used ideas from both of these fantastic tutorials to create the dress.  Both tutorials are very easy to follow and have great pictures, so there is no need for me to re-write a tutorial for this project.  Here are a few pictures I took along the way while creating my daughters "Re-purposed Spring Dress."



Fabric tube sewn to t-shirt.



Top stitching the t-shirt to fabric for a clean look.





The soon to be tie for the dress.







The finished dress from the back.



The finished dress from the front.



Closer detail of the bow in the back.

I had a great time creating this "re-purposed" dress!  You know it's a hit when your daughter approves of it and your son even says, "Wow, you turned her t-shirt into that!"  Thanks again to the blogs for their awesome tutorials!  Hope this gives you some inspiration to create your own "re-purposed project.