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Day 203: Living My Life Like It’s Golden Skirt

Day 204: Have a Nice Trip Dress
Day 202: No Sew Dress Refashion (in My Favorite Colors!)

It all began with a skirt.

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This skirt.

It’s not a bad skirt, but there are a couple of things I want to change about it.  For starters, I don’t like the black & whiteness of it.  By now, most of you know I’m pretty miserly with my dye.  That tunic from Day 198 wasn’t alone in its bath of Mystery Dye!

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Mystery Solved!

So…now that color is looking awesome, but there’s a second problem!

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Too Big!

Not a prob!  I quickly stitched a dart in the back of the skirt, which took it all in nicely!

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Whirrrr! 🙂

Now that skirt is looking fab & fetching for a day at work.  See?  I’m sticking to my resolution to not dress like a slob in the workplace!  No jeans or flip flops for this gal!

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Loving that golden hue! 🙂

I wore my fun new frock for a lunch date with a friend at M Vista, my faaaavorite restaurant here in Columbia!

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Raw Fish & Seaweed! Nom! 🙂

The bad cell phone photo doesn’t do it justice, folks.

Oh dear…now I’m hungry again!  🙂

Cheers!

Day 204: Have a Nice Trip Dress
Day 202: No Sew Dress Refashion (in My Favorite Colors!)

7 thoughts on “Day 203: Living My Life Like It’s Golden Skirt”

  1. Have you ever tried using natural dyes? For Halloween, I made the liner for my cape out of some left over silk which I hand dyed. Using a tablespoon of alum, some vinegar, a big pot of water and a bundle of Pearly Everlasting (a local weed) I turned the white silk to a beautiful gold colour. It’s worth looking into in the summer months – plus it’s really fun collecting all the plants for your dye baths 🙂 The only catch is the dye won’t necessarily hold in some synthetic fibers. It will work best with natural materials like cotton, wool and silk.

    Here’s a site that gives a great list of the different colours that can be achieved using specific plants.

    http://www.pioneerthinking.com/crafts/crafts-basics/naturaldyes.html

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