A Dress with SPF

 Hello Readers. It is summer but the sun is not my friend. I try to wear sunscreen everyday. I try to stay in the shade. I try to avoid the sun as much as I can. But I can't avoid it forever. I had this wrap with SPF in the fabric. It was great but maybe it could be more useful to be a dress? 

 Before and after.  

This was such a pretty pink and it had 50 SPF.  

It was a great wrap skirt but I thought it would make a fabulous beach dress. 

I folded the wrap into quarters. That will let me cut the neckline and sides and it would be symmetrical when I was done. 

 

You can see the cuts I made while the wrap was folded. I made a loose boxy shape. I cut an angles shape on the sides to make the skirt shape. And I saved those scrap pieces for later. 

 

I sewed the sides together with right sides facing each other. This made a very simple dress shape. That will work to throw on over a bathing suit.  

You can see the cut edge of the neckline here. I wanted to finish that neckline, that is what those scraps are for. 

 

I had 4 scraps left from when I cut out the dress shape. 

 

I used a yard stick as a straight edge. I marked along the fabric with a pencil. I wanted a 1/2 inch strip of this pink fabric. I wanted the hemmed edge as my neck binding. 

 

I cut out my strips and followed the pencil marks. 

 

I sewed this strip of fabric to the neck opening. I sewed with the right sides together. 

 

After the neck band was sewn in place, I went back over the neck binding and top stitched it so it would lay flat. 

 

This dress is loose and great in the heat at the beach or pool. I love the pink color and this dress is easier to wear for me than the wrap was. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.