Camo Formal Dress-Beautiful

About a year ago Bailey decided she wanted to make a formal dress out of camo. She asked her Grandma Lerwill if she would help her make one. She agreed and the hunt began. She found this dress on line and it is what she wanted. This dress on line cost 524.00 dollars. Wow!

We had looked around IF for some camo material and could not find any. We finally found a place on line and we ordered 2 yards of this bridal mossy oak camo satin. When it arrived we were thrilled. It is gorgeous material. We had found a pattern at Walmart that was similar to what the dress on line looked like. We also found a bolero pattern and bought it. On Bailey's birthday we went to IF and shopped with Grandma and bought all of her material. It was so much fun. We had to order the top tulle because they didn't have enough of it. A little over 16 yards! I had to pay for it and just the tulle was 100.00. Well my awesome sister told me about Jo Ann's great coupons and gave me one. When I went back to pick it up I asked if we could apply the coupon. She said no, but then said we could return the material and buy it again and use the coupon. YES! Katie had given me a coupon for 50% off. So we got all the tulle for 50.00. We were so excited. Bailey and Grandma have been working on the dress all summer. They have had a lot of fun together and it has been so fun to watch. They had their ups and downs with the pattern not fitting and the sizing's being so different and on and on. Grandma ended up basically making her own pattern. She is so talented! Even if she thinks it's been such a long time since she has sewn, she still has it. It was amazing for me to watch. Bailey learned a lot from the whole process too.  Bailey had it here at the house on Sunday and we thought we were all done. She tried it on and Grandma is going to make a pleat in the back to help the bolero lay flat and add two more hooks on the corset. But we got some preview pictures taken, so here they are. It turned out so beautiful and we have 150.00 dollars into it. Thank you, thank you, Grandma for helping Bailey make this dream of hers come true!!