Add Sleeves to a Baptism Dress

 

 My Sweet Niece was Baptized this last weekend.  Isn't she so Darn cute?!!  

My Sister found this adorable dress online and completely fell in love with it.  The Only problem was that the smallest it came in was a size 10 and my cute Niece is a very small size 8.  She also preferred for it to have short sleeves.  I told her to go ahead and get it and I was sure we could make it work.  It was so easy to take in.  I simply flipped it inside out and had her try it on and pinned along the bodice.  We didn't need to do a whole lot to the skirt. The skirt had a layer on the inside to make it a bubble type skirt. I just tapered out on the inner layer of the skirt so that it would fall nicely and that's it.  Next I took a sleeve pattern to a more dressy pattern and cut out sleeves from some sheer fabric and attached them to the straps. I gathered it a bunch on top so that it would have that fun poof up top.  

Relatively simple and she looked like a princess on her special day!