CreateAthon 2016!
Once a year, Riggs Partners (the advertising agency I do cool digital things for) has a CreateAthon.
You probably don’t know what that is. It’s okay. I didn’t either until I started working for them. A CreateAthon is a 24-hour no-sleep pro-bono marketing blitz wherein we provide our services (and the services of a few other talented folks around town) to local nonprofits.
What started as a small project at Riggs has become a worldwide movement.
When it came time to order shirts for our recent CreateAthon, I asked for a 3x.
“You’re going to do something cool with this, aren’t you?” asked my coworker.
Well…of course I was.
Beige Beige Beige.
I’m one of those women who much prefer dresses to pants. I think they’re way comfier, and I feel bad that most men will never know how great they truly are (dresses, not the men).
The reason I went with a too-big-for-me shirt was to ensure I (hopefully) had enough length for a dress without having to piece bits together. I crossed my fingers and got to work.
First, I took the shirt and folded it in half.
Apologies for the super-beigyness of the table against the shirt. :/
Then, I took a jersey knit dress I liked the fit of and folded it in half on top of this shirt.
See?
I cut carefully along the outline of the blue dress, which left me with this:
My dress is starting to take (beige) shape!
I pinned each side down…
Pin. Pin. Pin.
…then stitched each side.
Whirrrrr!
I tried my new dress on, and still had to do a bit of finicky altering around the shoulders of the dress, but after a few minor alterations, my frock was ready for 24 hours of digital marketing action!
Why hello there!
My team was impressed with my handiwork. 🙂
Some of the coolest and most creative marketing minds in Columbia! 🙂
There was much work to be done, as I was assigned two different nonprofits to figure out digital strategies for (as well as writing a bit of web copy).
Hard at work.
Luckily, I still found time to make a Tshirt for our mascot, T-Riggs!
I keep an extra sewing machine at work. You never know when you’ll need one. 😉
Yes. I was one of few people who opted for the long sleeve beige shirt over the cuter blue short-sleever.
This was a challenging challenge. I was thankful for my comfy & cozy dress, but working for 24 hours straight takes its toll.
Just writing web copy at 2:30am. Like ya do.
By 10:00 the next day, our work was done, and I was ready for a four-hour nap. 🙂
All in a night’s work!
(If you’d like to see a few more CreateAthon pics, here ya go!)
Cheers!
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19 Comments
i just love it. you are a kind of a genius. thanks.
Always enjoy seeing your latest project !
I didn’t have time to read this, just needed to click and comment. GIRL, your face is so damn good in those *before* pics. Rock on with your bad self!!
You are too sweet and kind……God Bless You
Looks great! I second the motion and am always happy to see what you are up to!
Very cute dress! For a very good cause! Way to sew, girl!
I always ask for extra larger sized shirts at my work too. Because most times the shirts they get are designed for men and I just want to room to be able to alter the sides and shoulders to better fit my womanly figure. Holy cow, though, I wouldn’t’ve thought of a dress! Awesome idea!!
That’s adorable!
I love it! I would also wear it for the Thanksgiving holiday as a tunic over orange leggings and throw a big brown belt around it! As for your 24 hour stint; I work for a non profit and also work with several other non profits in our community and this is what I always tell people…..Work is something you do to feed your bank account; community service is something you do to feed your soul!
I agree! It’s too c-c-cold-d-d for that shorty-short dress! Leggings and boots with a belt would rock it without turning blue.
wonderful like always
Amazing clever and CUTE!
You did a GREAT JOB….as usual…..Thanks for sharing 🙂
That’s really cute! You are so talented and creative!
Cute. Congrats on the dress and your productive night’s work.
You are a genius also very pretty! Thank you for explaining how you get the fit!
Love the dress you made. Way better than a boring shirt.
Adorable. You and the dress, both. The matching bangle is a nice touch.
that print is AH-MAZING!!! And hope you were having a great time at createAthon, I’m writing this from my conference in Tenerife ( sigh, hard life) where sadly the plastic name-tag is the only thiing that unites us poor conference-goers. I think I’ll have to push them into organizing shirts for the next one;)
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