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Day 359: Scrap-Busting Dress

Day 360: Men's Button Up Shirt to Dress Refashion
Day 358: Ruffled Dress Refashion

For today’s piece, we need to go back to Day 117 of this lil’ blog.  🙂

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First it was this.
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Then it was this…
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…but what about all this?

For those of you who were wondering what was going happen to the bottom part of this dress…wonder no more!  🙂

I needed something that would work as a cute coverup to wear erranding before I ventured over to a friend’s place for an afternoon swim!

I laid my leftover dress scrap upside down, and placed one of my best-fitting dresses over it, right in the center.  This is going to be my template!

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Just like this!

I pinned along the outside of the template dress…

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You can outline this in chalk if you like.

I left everything from the armholes up open, placing two pins right at where the shoulders of the template dress start.

I sewed two seams, one on each side of what was about to be my new dress!

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Emo sewing: All life is a meaningless abyss, dude.

Then, I sewed my shoulders down!

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Whirrrrr!!!!

Now my sweet new coverup is ready to head off for an afternoon at the pool!  🙂

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Love the sides!
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Refashioning gives you wings! Literally! 🙂
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Not bad for just a few little seams, eh? 🙂
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Digging that neckline! 🙂

I must say,  I’m quite happy to know someone with access to a private pool!  It makes the SC summer heat somewhat bearable!  🙂

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Keeping cool in da pool! 🙂

Good company & good beer make for a great summer day!  🙂

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Mmmm! Tasty Wheat Ale! 🙂

Cheers!

Day 360: Men's Button Up Shirt to Dress Refashion
Day 358: Ruffled Dress Refashion