Home Made Summer Dress

I've been thinking  "could you actually sew a dress?"
So I made this!!

Needed:
-  at normal body shape and about 170 cm body size you need 180cmx150cm fabric.
- stretch-band
- sewing machine and utensils
- bar of soap
- measuring tape

First need to determine the dimensions of the body, you want to make the dress for.
The dress comes to just above the knees.

best to measure:
- chest circumference
- height of upper body
- circumference of hips
- from hip to just before the knees

Best to take some more meters, i have always added 2 cm to each piece.

Turn every piece over and sew each one together, from the inside at a distance of about 1 cm from the edge.
Fix the material with needles and mark it, then sew it.
After that cut the out-standing material.

Cut out a triangle in the middle at the chest and fold the edge about 1 cm inwards and sew it all around from the outside.

A stretch band on top of the chest and one a little below the middle of the back. So the dress is applied to the body. I have taken 5 cm pieces.

IMPORTANT! The stretch band must be fully extended, when it move in, it should be slightly take the fabric at the same time with it. Than sew both together.

Now sew two straps and adjust the length to the person who will carrier the dress.
At the widest point (in the middle), it is 2 cm wide at the narrowest (at both end) 1cm.

The skirt consists of two parts, a small and a large.
!!!The skirts are twice as long as hip width, to make the wave pattern!!!
Both parts get below around it a small 1 cm rim.

Sew both ends together and pull a cord(as long as hip-width) through above. Now you can, with some skill, generate the wave pattern.
Sew both parts together, the upper about 5cm overlap in the lower.

Now even sew the skirt and the top together and you finish it.
I have made from ​​the rest fabric a ribbon for the hip.
At the end you can still attach your initials or something like that.