Day 28: Pretty in Paisley Dress

Today’s dress started off as a way too big lightweight halter dress.  Waaaay too big.

The pattern is lovely, and I dig the lightweight fabric for a hot and humid SC day.  Unfortunately, this thing is absolutely massive on me!

Not only that, but the shirred elastic back was all wonky and stretched out.  🙁

Luckily, taking care of one problem will take care of the other for this dress.  🙂

I decided to take the dress in from the back, thus eliminating the stretched-out part of the elastic.  This was super-duper easy.

First, I pinned all the way down the dress, then I ran it under the needle.  🙂

I lopped off all that excess material and was left with this:

Now I have a verrrrry cute & weather appropriate dress that’s pretty darn fetching!

You can’t even tell I took the back in at all!

I skipped out the door in my new dress to an awesome mid-week party (yep…partying on a school night).  🙂  A girl there commented, “Every time I see you, you’re wearing a different cute dress.”.  That made me giggle.  🙂

Cheers!