Day 359: Scrap-Busting Dress
For today’s piece, we need to go back to Day 117 of this lil’ blog. 🙂 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! I pinned along the outside of the template dress… I left everything from the armholes up open, placing two pins…
Day 358: Anita Dress
Today’s dress comes all the way from Saudi Arabia! Anita bought it from a second-hand bazaar with the intention of refashioning it for herself, and then decided that those ruffles just weren’t for her. I was actually pretty stoked about this one, folks! I love the ruffles and that bright red hue! 🙂 This dress still needed a bit of work though. First, I trimmed off those sleeves. Then, I pinned each side to get it more fitted. I ran each side through my machine. I used one of the leftover scraps from the sides as a sash to break up the lines of the ruffles a bit. And I…
Day 354: Lunch Outing Dress
I love funky-printed, but frumpy skirts! When I found this one at one of my fave $1 thrift stores, I was hooked! 🙂 The only problem with me and skirts, is that since I’ve learned how to sew, I’m done with wearing separates (for the most part)! For years I could never find dresses that fit me (no boobs, all butt). But now, rather than being a victim of whatever the proportions for an “average” size 2 (or 4 during the holiday season) are, I get to decide how my dresses should properly fit! It’s quite empowering! 🙂 To ‘dress’ up this skirt, I first cut two 6″ slits right…
Day 351: Egyptian Papryus Dress
Thrift Stores always seem to be teeming with loads and loads of awkward-lengthed skirts! Well lookie here…here’s one of them right now! Okay. So the cut of this skirt is ridonkulously boring and the length is lousy, but check out that print! It’s delightful and perfect for a warm (but not too warm) South Carolina evening. 🙂 Don’t look at it as what it is. Look at it as what it could be (Good advice for refashioning/terrible advice for romantic relationships)! 🙂 I put my skirt on my dress form, using the button closure as a sleeve-y strappy thing to go over one arm. Then, I pinned where this left…
Day 345: Denim Aversion Dress
I’m a firm believer that denim should only exist in 3 states: jeans, jackets, and the occasional miniskirt! Anything else is just too redneck-y and sad for my tastes! 😛 But then I stumbled across this: Sometimes I actually pity a piece of clothing. This is one of them! I’m going against my denim aversion to try and make this dress cute…or at least wearable! Could it be done?!?! I had to try! First, I set about removing those sleeves. I grabbed my seam ripper, put on an episode of Downton Abbey, and picked away! 🙂 Next, I pinned those raw edges from the armholes under. I sewed down my…
