DIY Le Sac Maxi Dress

After seeing this tutorial on Everybody, Everywear and getting back into sewing, I headed to Walmart to try to find some stretchy fabric to make my own maxi dress. I walked around the fabric department for probably 10 minutes and almost gave up until I found the one stretchy fabric they had in the clearance bin. Even though it was pretty ugly, I hoped it would end up being cute in dress form.

I really like how it turned out!  I took three slight deviations from the tutorial.

1. I bought 2.5 yards of fabric instead of 2 since I figured I'm wider than Tiffany, the tutorial maker.  
2. I didn't make a seam on the sleeves...because I forgot.  I could go back and do it but probably won't.
3. Although you don't need to, I made a seam on the folded side of the dress because I was worried about the sleeve ripping.

The tutorial is based on the knee-length American Apparel Le Sac dress, just longer. I tried tying mine a few different ways, but since it's so long (which is what I wanted), the style shown is the only way that really worked unless I were to wear heels.  I didn't notice it was that long in the back, so maybe I'll have to wear heels regardless.  Or hem the thing.

But yeah, it was super easy!  I'm excited to wear it in Florida next weekend!