Day 230: Send in the Clowns: Tacky Jumpsuit to Dress Refashion

Today’s piece was so awful that I couldn’t just stop at one “before” pic!  🙂

Okay…enough clowning around (wow that pun was awful, even for me!)!  🙂 

I wasn’t feeling that weird yellow and white giraffe print, so I dropped it into a bath of black and teal dye.   🙂

After the bath was done, I unpicked the crotch of the jumpsuit and cut off the legs. 

Then, I got to resizing!

I pinned the sides of my future dress on my dress form to make it more fitted.

I also pinned the front and the back of my future dress where I unpicked the legs.

I sewed up all my pinned areas, and chopped off the extra fabric.

My dress was looking realllllly cute already! 

I gave it  a new hem by folding the bottom edge under twice, pinning it, and then running it through my sewing machine.

…but still wasn’t entirely pleased. 

I grabbed the legs I removed earlier, and turned them into a wide sash.  🙂

Now my new dress was definitely ready for my second and last day in NYC!

Before flying back to SC, I stopped off for a bit of jitter-fighting vino!  🙂

I hadn’t been to New York in a few years, so this was a really nifty little visit that reminded me of why I really should try to visit more often.  🙂 

With a little luck, maybe I can.

Cheers!  🙂