Little Black Sheath Dress

Today, I will tell you how to make the most simple dress you can make. I don't even have any pics to post for the steps. It's that simple. We're making the perfect sheath dress. I love these dresses because you don't need any elastic or zippers (as long as you're using the right fabric) and like I said, it's simple to make. 

With a dress like this, you want to find a poly with a good bit of stretch to it. No lycra or spandex but good stretch! You want to make sure the stretch will be going across you horizontally when you're cutting it out. The other thing I used is a bodycon dress. Yes, a bodycon dress to use as the template. If you don't have a bodycon, find one of your most form fitting dresses to use...Let's get started!

Materials:

1-2 yards of poly (with some stretch) fabric

Matching thread

Dress to use as template

First, lay out your fabric then lay your dress (turned inside out) on top. You want to cut the front and back separately. Use your marking pen and mark around your dress but adding a little bit of wiggle room so your dress isn't as skin tight as the dress you're using. If you end up wearing this to work, you don't want to look like you're headed to the club afterwards. I ended up needing to add a total of 1" to make it a little looser. You can add more if you'd like (which I did at first). It's better to need to take it in then not having enough fabric for it to fit! 

Once both sides are marked out, cut it out and pin (with right sides together) your shoulder seams then your side seams. Serge or zigzag stitch your seams then press. 

Try it on and see if you need to take it in any more. It's easy to pin while you have it on. Just turn it inside out and pin to where you would like your seams to come in to. If needed, take it in some.

Once you're done with your seams, all you need to do is hem your neckline, sleeves and bottom of dress and you're ready to wear it!

I told you it was easy! You can find tons of things you already own to use as a template in order to make some new clothes. Just look at the seam lines of things and you'll find it to be really easy to piece together your own outfits...or you can just follow my blog and I'll show you how :)

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