Easy-Peasy Girls Dress

Miss 7 spotted this at the op-shop for $1.50 - how could we resist?

I think this was a strapless top, but we both agreed this would look much better as a girls dress.

Unfortunately it seemed to be a teen size 14, so despite the shirred elastic top part, it would not stay up on my 7 year old.

So I took in the sides at the top, but left the lower part as it was.

Remember this fabric that I cut from the hem of my last refashion?  I rolled those fraying edges under and sewed them flat.

To create these...

Shoulder straps.

And sewed them in place to complete this easy-peasy refashion.

The hardest part was trying to get a photo of the finished item.

Running...

Climbing...

Hiding...

And then she finally stopped to feed the fish.

This has fast become a favourite dress and was well worth the $1.50 we paid for it.