1-2-3 Tier Dress

1-2-3 Tier Dress

This 1-2-3 Tier Dress is made from a child's tie dyed T shirt and a woman's very full long skirt. Both the tie dyed T shirt and the gathered skirt were found at the local Goodwill store. They were meant to be joined!

Materials Needed:
1 yard 45" fabric or long full skirt
T shirt 
gathering foot
Zigzag sewing machine
Sewing notions

Supplies

Gather up T-shirts –

From friends, family, and second hand stores

Look for Fun Fabrics –

Consider discarded skirts, second hand stores, etc.

Sewing machine – basic machine with a zigzag stitch

Basic sewing needs: thread, scissors, hand needles, pins, chalk,

safety pin, tape measure, ruler, etc.

Decorations – buttons, zippers, trinkets, beads, etc.

1-2-3 Tier Dress

How To Instructions

From 45” wide fabric cut five 6” strips

RST, stitch the short ends together to make:

Tier 2 – 63” long (1.5 strips joined) tube

Tier 3 – 90” long (two strips joined) tube

The remaining strip is Tier 1, stitch short ends to make tube

Clean finish edges if needed by serging or zigzagging the raw edges.

Gather the top edge of each tube with a gathering foot

Align gathered edge of Tier 2 on top of the lower edge of Tier 1, adjust gathers to fit

Stitch in place

Align gathered edge of Tier 3 on top of the lower edge of Tier 2, adjust gathers to fit

Stitch in place

 

Align gathered edge of Tier 1 on top of the lower edge of T-shirt, adjust gathers to fit 
Stitch in place using a zigzag stitch