High Low Dress

For Christmas, my Grandma’s aide gave me some beautiful fabric. I wasn’t sure what to do with it and held onto it for a little while, just waiting for inspiration to strike.

A few months later, when I was back in my college dorm, I had an idea that was the perfect style for the fabric.

I cut the front piece of the skirt first. The front piece was about a yard and a half long. I cut a big U in the front of the fabric so there would be a little more dimension in the skirt. Then, I did a rolled hem on the part that I had just cut before pleating the top to be about half the circumference of my waist.

Then I took the panel for the back of the skirt and sewed a bottom hem before lining it up with the front of the skirt, right sides together. And then, the skirt was made.

The bodice was just a piece of fabric folded in half so the top was finished, and then I sewed a zipper into the back. Once that was sewn, I sewed the raw edges together to form a dress, but I wasn’t quite done yet.

All I had to do was scrunch the front of the top to give it a little more flair, and then it was done.

I was fortunate that the fabric was pretty much double-sided; the wrong side of the fabric was just slightly lighter than the right side, so even though there was an exposed part in the back, you couldn’t tell that it was unfinished.