A Very Quick Dress

Two days ago I made this dress-up dress for Emily. 

It is called a Magistrate's Dress and I found it here, 

made by Rowena. This is by far the fastest dress I 

have ever made. I cut and sewed it within an hour, 

even with children pulling on various parts of me during. 

Rowena recommended using a stretchy fabric and I used 

crushed panne velvet but velour, knit, stretch velvet and 

anything that drapes well and has a bit of stretch will 

work. I didn't have any suitable trim for the sleeves or 

neckline so I used some regular white fleece and cut 

strips of it to trim the sleeves. The neckline was trimmed 

with some odd fleecy bias tape that seemed to match. 

The bottom hem of the dress is completely unfinished 

because I decided it was too much work for just a 

dress-up dress. Go try Rowena's tutorial - 

it is really fast to put together!