Thrifted Thursday: Daddy to Daughter Dress---The Sequel

If you've come around here for any period of time you already know that I sometimes start with an idea and then....go crazy with it...and remake it 72 million times in 5 thousand different ways.

(Like all those different kinds of t-shirt skirts,or the specimen charts, or the suspenders, or all those, well, you get the point.)

 

So when I posted about the Daddy to Daughter Dress last week you may have suspected that I would be making some more...and if you suspected that, then you were right.

Super, crazy, right.

 

I am totally loving pairing the tie patterns and textures with cotton fabrics.

It's so much fun. 

(Yes, this is what I think is fun.  And that is why I am a jumbo nerd.)

 

Ok, so here are the differences from the dress I'm sharing today and the one from last week.

First of all instead of just using the tie for a decorative stripe I kept it's shape as a tie (letting it end half way down the dress instead of running it right off the bottom of the dress). 

I also used a skinny vintage tie, instead of a wider one from my husbands closet.  

And then I put this tie on a different dress pattern---this one I drew up myself just for this fabric and tie (and collar---which is another difference between this dress and last weeks).

So that's that..another tie embellished dress...and I love it.

I really do---I like this dress even more than the first one.

And even though I still have a million more tie dresses flying around in my head I'll try to control myself---and only make the 2 other variations that I've already cut out.

:)

-liZ

 

PS---If you want to know how I added the ties to these dresses the tutorial is HERE.

 

PS---Several people sent emails asking what pattern I used for the dress last week---so I'll tell you and it's a good one!  It is an "It's so easy SIMPLICITY" pattern #4927.  (Which is a TERRIFIC pattern for beginning seamstresses---it's cute, easy and has no button holes or zippers to worry about.)

 

PS---Simplicity didn't pay me to say that last PS.

 

PS---The fabric I used was from my stash and is from Micheal Miller (who didn't pay me to say that either :)