Shirring

This is a little doll dress I made.  I didn't have a pattern for a Cabbage Patch doll dress, so I looked at a doll dress I had.  I cut a long rectangle for the main part.  Then I folded it in half and used the doll dress to cut out arm holes.  I had never shirred before but had read about how to do it here.  It was EASY!  You just wind elastic thread by hand on the bobbin and then sew like normal.  The trick is when you finish, you lay your steam iron gently on top of the shirring (don't move it around at all) and the shirring tightens up and looks like this:

Then I cut some bias for the straps and added a little ruffle on the hem for fun.