I made my remix out of a soft red and white striped knit fabric, (the pattern recommends using woven fabrics) that I pleated and stitched on one shoulder to make a solid red section that has been appliqued with a navy and silver tulle star. It has an offset tulip style skirt that is gathered into the navy elastic waistband, and has a navy and silver star, tulle pettiskirt underneath. Since I didn’t line my dress (It’s hot here in the ROK so the less you wear the better!) I finished off the neck and sleeves by adding folded sleeve and neck bands.

After pintucking the fabric, I simply cut the fabric out using the size 12 version of the Roller Skate dress as though it was a flat piece of fabric (making sure I placed the one sleeve completely over the red pleated side,) with the only alteration being to drop the neckline a little, and cut the length off at her natural waist rather than doing the full dress length. (here’s a picture of what my pattern tracing looked like, you can see the old neck line, and then my newly drawn in neckline.)

The back was done eliminating the seam allowance for the back seam, and placing the pattern horizontally over the fold. After cutting out the front and back pieces, I sewed the shoulders and side seams together using my serger.

The neck band was just a 2″ strip sewn into a circle, folded in half, and sewn in place, while the sleeves were 4″ bands that I measured to the same width of the sleeve and sewed on the same way as the neck. (I used my coverstitch machine to topstitch the neck and sleeve bands down so that they would lie straight, but a twin needle in a regular machine would do the same thing).

Next I made the skirt by cutting 2 widths of fabric to length, sewing them together (being careful to match my stripes) and then curving the top edge into this shape…..

At this point I should have hemmed the skirt on the long straight side (I used a coverstitch machine, but a set of twin needles on a regular machine will work too) but in reality I did it once already on the dress, it is not as easy as it would have been had I done it first, so you can learn from my mistake! Next I sewed 2 rows of basting down the curved sides, and gathered the skirt into the waste of the dress, slightly overlapping the two short sides for the tulip effect. Next I sewed the skirt to the shirt.

Then I sewed a piece of elastic into a loop, that was the correct size for my daughter’s waist, and then pinned it over the waist seam, and sewed it down on the top and bottom edge of the elastic, stretching while I sewed it.

Here it is evenly gathered into the elastic waistband (at this point I hemmed the dress, because I hadn’t wanted to swap my thread cones over to a different machine earlier) Next I machine appliqued a star onto the shoulder of the dress, using 2 layers of the tulle, and a machine satin stitch to sew the edges down.

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