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Joy of How Joyful transforms this short sleeve button-down shirt into this sweet summer dress. A thrifted oversized button-down shirt to start with: Joy Kelley is a creative Industrial Designer from the Universidad de Chile by degree.  Check out Joy’s blog to see how she deconstructed the shirt and then constructed and sewed the dress together.  Joy made excellent use of all of her fabric pieces!  Clever and beautiful! See how Joy did it! ✂ Advertisement ✂ How to Recycle Men’

Melanie from the Crafty Cupboard shows us how she sewed this pretty dress for little girls.  Upcycling an existing t-shirt, and using some fabric , a beautiful “Twirly Dress” is born.   The bottom half of this dress is actually a very simple circle skirt with a serged bottom hem.  If you need some extra help calculating your circle skirt radius, the Snug Bug has some excellent information to help you draft this pattern piece.  I really love this sewing project because we end

Learn how to sew with Anna Maria Horner using her free dress epattern for babies.   The free pdf pattern and instructions are available on Janome America’s website at  janome.com to download and print! #dress #nursery #PDF #easy #beginner #AnnaMariaHorner #baby #freepattern #sewingpattern #videotutorial