Day 188: Welcome Back Dress

Today’s dress was reminiscent of antique wallpaper.

This crazy uber floral frock was actually handmade.  This means that someone actually saw this fabric in a store and thought “Hey!  That’s awesome!  I want to make a big tacky dress out of that!”  I don’t get it.

I didn’t pause to think about this for very long.  There was much work to do!

First, I removed those fake pocket flaps from the front of the dress.

Next, I took the whole big mess in 2″ on each side

Then I cut off a good bit of the length, and hemmed it.

I took that bottom part that I chopped away, and sewed it into a nice lil matchy-matchy sash, and voila!  I had a fun dress to reunite with my good buddy, Lisa who has been teaching in China for the last six months.

Cheers!