A Sleeve Reprieve Dress
Welcome to my long hot summer! Yes…I’m aware that technically it isn’t quite summer yet, but with temps in the humid mid 80s, I feel like I’m already there. I was cleaning out my pajama drawer and came up with this jersey-knit shirt that I scored for $1, but never refashioned, as it quickly became my favorite winter pj top. This top just won’t do for a getaway to Georgia Wine Country! First off, I needed to get rid of those sleeves. Since this is a jersey knit, I simply cut them off right at the seams, as I knew they wouldn’t fray. Then, I took it in a couple…
Day 308: Flit & Flirt Dress
Today’s piece was curiously tagged “Small”. I beg to differ. :/ I wanted something fun and flirty to wear for this month’s First Thursdays on Main art crawl. Obviously, this was not it…yet! 😉 First, I pulled the neck hole down under my arms and pinned it in the front with my favorite brooch in the world. 🙂 This left the rest of the top looking like this: I tucked the sleeves in to make fake pockets (Fockets!). 🙂 I’ll probably go back and actually sew them into real pockets, but I was in a hurry! 🙂 And here’s the end result! I got loads of compliments on my new…
Day 23: Layers o’ Lace Top
I get a little giddy when I find a dress that is truly bad. There’s nowhere for this dress to go but up! I like the lace and I like the fortuny-style pleating, but I can’t stand them together (sensory overload!), so I removed the skirt. I also had to remove these icky guys: I might’ve left the sleeves on if it wasn’t so very hot outside, but as we’re in the middle of a heat wave, they had to go. Remember…it doesn’t get cool at night in the south; It just gets dark. When the sleeves were removed, I pinned the raw edges under, and sewed them down. The…
