It’s Week 3 of Project Run & Play and I’m thrilled to be here sharing my makes! Thank you all for your support so far!

The theme this week is ‘Botanical Beauty’ and I took the opportunity to make an outfit that has been stuck in my head for a long time! I’m so proud of this set, it’s floaty and romantic and the botanical print is just gorgeous. I used a gorgeous mauve floral rayon fabric, and then got a little crafty with the glue gun and made a flower crown to match!

I created this cropped wrap top using the Mori Dress Pattern by Elegance & Elephants as a starting point.

I redrafted every single pattern piece to get the look I wanted. I raised the front neck line, widened the front and back centre panels and changed the angle that the flounces set into, I lengthened the bodice, cut the full back into angled separates, created huge flounces and a wrap waist band! I think the only thing I left alone was the shoulder angle and armscye! I did a double fold narrow hem on the flounces and created a really long waistband to tie around the body.

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I am so happy with how this turned out and that being a wrap top, it will fit my girl for some time. She started talking Year 6 Graduation outfit, swishing around in this set, so that made me happy that she loved it too!

The skirt started with a flat front, elastic back waistband. I cut 2 extra wide skirt panels and cut the ruffled tier double the width of the skirt. I measured my daughter’s waist to the ground to calculate the length of the finished skirt, which I then used to work out the length of both the panel and ruffle. I hand cut the high low front panel, using a curved ruler as a guide, to get the finished height I had calculated for the front.

She loved twirling around in the breeze up on the cliffs in this beautiful skirt.

I really wanted this outfit to be a show stopper, So I made sure the skirt had the same generous feel as the flounces of the wrap top.

We took our photoshoot out to the boardwalk above Fingal Bay in Port Stephens. This is one of our family’s favourite spots to visit for a stroll. I knew the stunning combination of the greenery and the ocean would be the perfect backdrop for this botanical outfit and wouldn’t compete with the colours of the fabric.

To vote for your favourite look this week, you can head over to the Project Run & Play Blog now!

AND just a few more images, because I had so much fun with this shoot ❤