A Yard...and a Half a Yard...

My dear little cousin loves bugs.  At least, she used to love bugs.  About 3 years ago, when my sister used to sew a lot of little clothes for her.  That's when we found and purchased the "bug fabric."  But, like many other things at my family's house, it got laid to the side and never completed. 

Until I found it two months ago.  And realized it would make an adorable sundress for our fast approaching summer season.  I had just learned shirring from this tutorial and was eager to try it out. 

But, since it had been three years, one yard was no longer sufficient to make my cousin a dress.  So I dug in my stash and found a half yard of a coordinating pink gingham.  Combining the two pieces, I came up with this...

The whole outfit is simply rectangles.  The top part of the dress is 18" by 66".  The pink gingham part is 10" by 88" and the tiny ruffle on the bottom is 3" by 110".  I gathered all the layers before doing the shirring and adding the halter strings.

The result?  A simple dress which only took about two hours of work!