My First Dress

...Well the first dress I've ever made...

I don't remember where or how I got my hands on the tutorial for this dress - I just spent an hour searching my computer AND the internet for something close/something that looked familiar.... and NOTHING... So I will add that to my list of things to keep looking for (haha) or perhaps I will break down and bring the dress out to examine what exactly it was that I did and create a tutorial from there... But for now, here are some pictures:

Please do keep in mind, this was only my second project, so I couldn't sew a straight line for my life! And to top that off, I was having terrible issues with my threading tension *because as soon as I got my machine I had to touch every knob, button, switch on my machine - :( including the bobbin tension (what was I thinking?!!!) Though luckily you cant see all of the imperfections in these pictures (thanks to horrible lighting and all the gathering hehe). And it isn't the WORST second sewing project ever... Right?? LOL.

I was just happy she could actually wear it! Haha

Basically this dress is about three pieces of fabric. The top/back w/sleeves, the top/front, and the "skirt"... Wait plus the pockets - so that's really a couple more pieces isn't it? Ok, I PROMISE I will get a real tutorial up in the next month or so, let me just figure out where I put it. ;)