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      It's been awhile since i've worked with the sewing machine. This leopard fabric, which i discovered at a thrift store a year ago has been in the bottom of my fabric box since. It was love at first sight. I loved how nice the print was and how light the fabric, however i didn't know how to sew back then.

     Yesterday as i was doing my usual blog reading, i stumbled upon a dress DIY and that reminded me of how badly i've been wanting a leopard maxi. Finally after half an hour of fabric searching ( i have tones of fabric that i buy thinking i'm going to make something...) i found it at last and began to make this dress.

   This was a very easy dress to make. All you need is a rectangular piece of fabric and elastics and some extra black fabric for the chest opening. You can even hang sew this dress, if you had the time in your hands.

 All you do is:
         1. Take the leopard fabric and sew the top part with a fold about one inch wide.
         2. Take the elastic and cut off the length you need. Make sure you make it a little tighter than necessary because you dont' want your dress to fall!
         3. Using a bobby pin, thread the elastic through the fold created in step 1.
         4. Sew the raw edges for the two long side.
         5. Take the small piece of black fabric and cut it into a long rectangle shape about one and a half inch by 5 inches.
         6. Reverse that fabric and sew it close, leaving enough space for the elastic to go through.
        7. Reverse the sewn black fabric which will appear as a tube now.
         8. Thread the elastic on the top of the leapord fabric through, connecting the two side with the black fabric.
        9 Sew the elastic together and pull the black fabric to cover the elastic.
        10. Sew the two long sides of the fabric together leaving a 3 inches opening from the top and sew according to how much leg you want to show. I'm 5`3 and i sew 17 inches.
       11. Finally sew the bottom of the dress, length according to you.

And you're done! The belt i had on was from AA but you can use whatever you like :)

p.s. sorry for the very simple instructions and the lack of pictures...i forgot that i would be posting this on my blog until after i finished the dress... :(