Project Run and Play Sew Along Week 2

The second week's challenge was Stripes and Polka Dots.  I had some striped home decor fabric left over from a Christmas gift last year that I wanted to use.  I knew I wanted to make a jumper with a scalloped hem (for the dots part).  I searched and searched for just the right tutorial or pattern and came upon this one, but I didn't want to pay for a pattern this month, so I went back to my Ottobre Design magazines to see if I could find something similar.  

I settled on an under dress from the 6/2007 issue.  I left off the hem panel, lengthened it and added a scallop hem to my traced pattern pieces.

 I was going to have the stripes horizontal, but it wouldn't fit.  So I had the skirt with vertical stripes and the yokes horizontal.  I'm really loving it.  I think more so than if it had been horizontal.

I blogged about the shirt here and the leggings are what I was going to make for that dress, but didn't.  The pattern is called Fancy Little Leggings by Birdiful Stitches.  They were super easy and could also be made with ruffles.

I got help with how to do the hem from Colette Sewing Handbook by Sarai Mitnick.  The Meringue Skirt in it has the same hem.  I just took a can and traced half circles with a seam allowance onto my pattern piece.  I made sure to have quarter circles at the fold and again with seam allowances at the seams.

Also, this was my first time using Photoshop to edit photos.  I got super irritated with PicMonkey for now charging for features I was able to use not too long ago.  So now I'm fumbling my way around and I would love any tips or links to tutorials that you think would help.