Very Basic Hippie Dress Step 1 Bodice Measurements

I admit I’ve been busy here at the house (life gets busy, lol)  so I haven’t gotten a thing done with my tutorials.  I blog without obligation so I’m not apologizing for being busy or even for sleeping in late occasionally ;-) but I thought y’all might wonder what happened, lol.  

This quick hippie style maxi dress is quite simple to make.  This will require sewing skills, fabric, thread, scissors, some kind of paper or scrap fabric to make a pattern for the bodice on, a tape measure, something to mark fabric, and a bit of patience because we’re not going to work from any kind of pattern we are going to make our own…no really it isn’t hard!  No, I’m not just saying it’s not hard because I’ve done it before I’m saying it’s not difficult because it’s taking a couple of measurements putting a couple marks down and connecting the dots :-)

Grab your paper and make sure it's at least half as wide as you are around the chest (measure right across the fullest part of your "hangin ladies" if you want this to fit right" and long enough that it covers from the top of your bra cup (where the strap attached to the cup is a good spot to measure from) to a couple of inches below where the cup ends.

Measure from strap to strap as indicated in my photo and write the measurement down.

Measure your side depth from strap and write it down. Also make sure you measure the dotted white line also so you know the distance on the side there from your strap to the lowest spot on the side of your bra or top!

Get Your Paper And Pencil Ready.

Set your paper down and determine the center and bottom left corner of paper so we can get ready to put our dots on the paper that we'll be connecting.

Step 2 within the week!  Need to get this finished up so everyone will have it ready for summer after all!!

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Maxi Dress Madness

My wonderful dress from teh wonderful Weeza!

My wonderful dress from the wonderful Weeza. Wish I still had the photo of the one I sent her! If you'd like the tutorial on this go to Weeza Wear!

Click here to go to Weeza Wear!

Call them what you will, maxi dresses, long dresses, they’re just neat.  I like the idea of something longer, I’m sick of seeing a little bit too much of some folks when they sit down in a mini if you know what I mean ::: shudder::: don’t even get me started.

The thing is we have not only maxi dresses abounding in today’s market but their siblings the hippie dress and the patchwork dress which are darn near the same thing except for the name and materials in some instances.

So what’s my rant?  I was on Ebay looking at wedding dresses  but while I was there I saw this photo for a maxi dress that all the stars are wearing and thought I’d like  to see more of whats currently available  so I went to a website that I won’t mention but for the fact that they are insane if they think I’m going to pay $179 (retail $300) for a frickin dress that is so simple to put together that I can probably teach my 3-year-old to at least cut the pattern . Anyway I was there and just got disgusted at the prices.  I know how much it costs to sew something, I know how much time it takes, and I could make most of the clothes on that site for around $35-$80 (depending on fabric selection) if I don’t put my actual time sewing into the equation.

So I’m sitting here thinking “well, I don’t even have my pajama project patterns up and running yet because I need a new camera to take photos of the steps with ” but by golly I’m going to go ahead and toss the maxi dress tutorials idea out just so y’all know that I do have some other things that will be coming as soon as I get my taxes and therefore a new camera.

So before you go out buying maxi dresses for the season hang tight the first tutorial will be up within 2 weeks!

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