Wannabe Wednesday: Tarjay Edition

I shop at Target at least once a week. Whether I’m out of shampoo, dog food, or I’ve suddenly ran out of soy milk, Tarjay has my back! I always check out their clothes too…because…well…they have a lot of really cute stuff.

One such cute thing is this lovely maxi dress with grosgrain ribbon straps!

Now…doesn’t that look like just about the most comfy/classy summer maxi you’ve seen?

Here. Take a closer look at those straps!

The closest thing I had in my refashion stash was this suuuuper-long maxi dress that was also originally from Target.

WAIT! What the!?! That’s right, guys! I’ve got a new ‘do! Robin over at Bombshell Studio chopped my mass of tresses into a much more manageable bob! 🙂

24292_10151722292742978_1577282791_n — First photo post-cut!

Alright…back to the refash! 🙂

My first step for this refashion was cutting a small strip from the bottom of the dress, like so:

My real estate is limited, but I make it work! :) — My real estate is limited, but I make it work! 🙂

The biggest thing I needed to change on this dress was the strappage! Luckily, I had a roll of grosgrain ribbon in my stash. I chopped off a section from each of the straps. This is where the ribbon will go.

You don't need much at all! — You don’t need much at all!

Before I started with the ribbon, I really needed to change the neckline to make it more of a cowl, like on the original. To do this, I cut off the hemmed edge of the neckline and stretched it out.

Now for the ribbon! Okay…if I tried to just pin and sew the ribbon onto the dress, the feed dogs on my machine would pull one part more than the other, causing a bunched-up mess. BUT, if I stabilize it, it’ll work just fine! To accomplish this task, I reached for a roll of medical tape from when I had to tape up my broken toe a couple of months ago!