Wowza! Today’s dress has a LOT going on, doesn’t it? :)
I actually really like the extremely busy pattern on this dress. :) Unfortunately, It’s extremely old lady-ish and way too big!
Not to fear! :)
First, I cut off that bottom patterned section, and put it aside.
I took the dress in on the sides by about 2″.
The back of the dress was still super-blousy though. :/ As I’m not going for the one humped camel look this spring, I took it in a bit from the back, too!
Next, I lopped off a bit more length.
Almost done! I grabbed that scrap from the original bottom of the dress, trimmed it down, and stitched it into a lovely little sash! :)
And now that cute dress is ready for a day at the office! :)
Cheers!
That´s lovely – it´s amazing how a few simple changes can really transform something! Thought of you yesterday as I was having a clothes clear out (some for the rag bag, some for the charity shop, some for refashioning). I had a lot of black t-shirts (I live in them!) which had faded from drying them in the sun here so I chucked them all in the washing machine with a few packs of black dye and now they are as good as new again!
This is nice!
SUPER cute! Great job on this one. I JUST took in and hemmed a dress that I had gotten from a thrift shop and felt so proud of myself -you are rubbing off on us Jillian!
so cute!!!