A Christmas Dress Remake for $3. (The Eva Dress) --no sew!

I have never had to buy my 1 yr old Eva, clothes. It's a blessing to have so many wonderful hand-me-downs when your husband is in grad school and you have 5 kids! However, there are times when the choices in her closet are not as cute as what is currently calling to me at Target!

Eva was given this hand-me-down Christmas dress. It's nice velvet fabric, but I figured I could make it a little cuter. 

Below are things I found for the dress re-make. Black material from my closet, a dollar store gold flower, and  ribbon I bought with a 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon (about $2). 

I used my no sew stick-iron stuff, (happen to have lots in my sewing cupboard) to iron the ribbon on. I wouldn't suggest ironing it on for clothes that you'll use and wash often, but since Christmas dresses are usually only worn once or twice, I attached it the lazy way. 

I don't have pictures of the fabric flowers I made, but I used the tutorial off this site .

Here is my uncooperative model at the beginning of our shoot. I took about 5 zillion pictures, and it was still tough to find a good one. 

Plastic Christmas ornaments and a stool seemed to help her mood.

Pic of the head band flower 

So much better!

--Katie

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