Long Floral Crop Top Dress

long floral crop top dress
long floral crop top dress

Pub­lished August 10, 2014

Crop Top Dress for Godmother

St. Michael’s Ukrain­ian Catholic Church is a very spe­cial place for my fam­i­ly. A lit­tle less than a year ago, my sis­ter and broth­er-in-law were mar­ried there. Then just this past week, my niece, Gigi, was bap­tized in St. Michael’s. The bap­tism was very nice and extreme­ly special.

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Since Bap­tism is the most impor­tant day in one’s life, I though it appro­pri­ate that I make dress­es (and a one­sie) for the cer­e­mo­ny and reception.

Gigi wore the bap­tismal gown passed down through the fam­i­ly, which was sewn by my babcha. It was a beau­ti­ful gown! My babcha did all the (pink) hand stitch­ing on it as well. (Which reminds me….I’m com­ing out with bap­tismal gowns! They should be avail­able for sale lat­er this fall.)

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long floral crop top dress

I absolute­ly adored the dress I made for myself to wear for Gigi’s baptism.

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Last win­ter I made a short­er (and vel­vet) ver­sion of this dress, (see dress here). Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the vel­vet mate­r­i­al of the first dress made it dif­fi­cult to see all the details and pleats of the dress. I swore then that I would make this dress design again (before it goes out of style). I was so busy this spring that I nev­er got around to it. But once I was asked to be Gigi’s god­moth­er, I knew I had to do it.

burdastyle crop top dress sewing pattern

I changed the orig­i­nal pat­tern in a few places. First, I made the skirt of the dress fuller than the orig­i­nal dress pat­tern. (The orig­i­nal pat­tern had the hem taper in.) I spent lots of mon­ey on this beau­ti­ful flo­ral fab­ric and I want­ed to use as much of the flo­ral pat­tern as I could. Sec­ond, I made the straps slight­ly thin­ner than the orig­i­nal pat­tern. And last­ly, I made the bot­tom bodice lay­er a stretch cream knit fab­ric. (This made the dress more com­fort­able and easy to wear!)

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BFFs: Gigi and Cha Cha Mimi
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Lots of hand stitching!!!

I made a white silk slip to wear under this dress! I will write some­thing about it in a lat­er post.

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Before the hook and eye was sewn in
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Before the hem

THANKS FOR READING 🙂

24 thoughts on “Long Floral Crop Top Dress

  1. Jillian

    You look stun­ning in this gor­geous dress. What detail and elegance.
    Beau­ti­ful work. Impressive.
    Shine ON
    J

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    1. marusya

      Thanks Jil­lian! Have a great show Sat­ur­day! Please go out after the per­for­mance, so I can catch you and buy you a birth­day cock­tail at the bar!!!!! 🙂 Tell Jacque I want to see her too!

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  2. Catherine

    I adore this .. i’ve looked at this a few times over the year. You look so beautiful 🙂
    I was look­ing at mak­ing a dress to attend a wed­ding. Do you have the link to the pat­tern? I can’t find one sim­i­lar anywhere!

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks for the kind words Cather­ine! Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I don’t think Bur­dastyle sells this pat­tern online. You’ll have to get your hands on the (I think) 12/2013 Bur­dastyle cat­a­log. Good luck!

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