Day 324: Play in the Park Dress
Check out this lovely 2-piecer! Talk about a BOGO! 🙂 I’m a huge fan of this fun tropical print and the lightweight fabric of this thing. I’m not such a fan of the frumpy cut of the dress or the not-so-hot layering action! Time to get this dress ready for a warm & beautiful day! First, I cut the dress off near the top, right where it starts to get narrow. Then, I hemmed the resulting raw edge! Next, I cut two strips from the back of the jacket. I stitched them both into tubes… …and turned them right-side out! I pressed my tubes, and pinned them onto my dress…
Day 304: A Pregnant Pause Dress
How does one write a suitable preface for something like this? I couldn’t just stop at one before pic, either! 🙂 At first, I didn’t understand why the shape of these atrocious overalls was so odd. Suddenly, all became clear! Yep. You’re looking at a pair of maternity overalls! As I clearly have no need for these as-is, it was time to get to work! 🙂 I knew I wanted to turn this into a dress, so I unpicked the crotch area… …and then cut off the legs! Then, I put the whole thing on my dress form and started pinning! Then, I ran all of the pinned sections under…
Day 285: Nostalgia Top
When I saw today’s piece at the thrift store, I immediately became nostalgic. This is a pajama top that is almost identical (just a different color) to a set of pajamas I had in high school that used to be my grandmother’s in the 70’s. I loved them to death, but accidentally got bleach all over them, and that was that. :/ Or was it? 🙂 I scoured the thrift store, looking for the bottoms to this top, but they were nowhere to be found. 🙁 Had I actually found them, I would have happily kept them as my new fave pair of jammies! Sadly, this was not meant to…
Day 245: Mandarin Blue Dress
Today’s dress wasn’t very cute when I first put it on. :/ Not to worry! I know just what to do to make this dress adorable in no time flat! First, I removed some of the length! Some of you guys have asked how I manage to keep the hem even when I shorten my dresses. I just fold the cut off bit as I go, and everything is Even Steven! 🙂 Next, I lopped off those ugly stretched-out sleeves! Now my dress is cute as can be and ready to head out the door for work! Cheers!
Day 234: Brunchtime Dress
When the jumpsuit meets culottes, nothing good can come of it! This piece is all sorts of lameness. :/ I got to work on de-lameifying it! I unpicked the crotch of this silly thing with my seam ripper. Then, I chopped of the legs! Then I closed up the front and back seams where I unpicked the crotch earlier. 🙂 I cut off the extra material from the front and back seams, then I got to work on hemming my new dress! I turned the dress around so the zipper closure was at the front. It could be worn either way. 🙂 Cheers! 🙂
Day 233: Mardi Gras Dress
When I saw today’s dress, I knew it would be just the thing for a Mardi Gras Celebration! 🙂 I love the gold hue, and the luxurious silk fabric, but I wanted something cute and fun to catch a parade with friends…and this wasn’t it! I decided to completely lose the top part of the dress. I left just enough of the fabric from the top part to fold over and pin. Then I stitched it down. Now I needed straps for my new dress. I whipped up two fabric tubes from the leftover sleeve fabric… and pinned them to the front and back of my new dress! I stitched…
