summer halter top to preschooler dress tutorial
summer is long gone... here's how you can take a summer halter top & repurpose it into a little girl's dress
what you need
:: summer halter top
:: matching sewing thread
:: 1/4" wide elastic (i used 7.5" in length)
:: safety pin
:: pins
:: sewing machine
{when i put this halter top on my 3 year old daughter, a few inches needed to be taken in at the back so that it could be worn as a dress, the following is how i did that}
on the back of the halter top fold down to the wrong side enough fabric to make a casing for the 1/4" wide elastic & sew (i folded down 7/8" & sewed at 3/8")
attach a safety pin to one end of the elastic & feed it through the casing
zig-zag stitch through the elastic & all the layers, just inside the end of the casing to secure it, do this at both ends of the casing
with girl wearing it, crisscross the long straps in the back & pin it where the straps meet. with pins attach the straps to the back of the dress (i positioned them where i zig-zagged at the ends of the casing)
zig-zag stitch where the straps crisscross in the back
zig-zag stitch where the straps meet at the back of the dress
voila ! you've just extended the life of a summer halter top !
