Day 365: Kitschy Dress
Today’s piece is a fun & kitschy handmade house dress. 🙂 Okay…I’m not a fan of the brown & white print (too tablecloth-y!) and this is obviously too big for me. Let’s see what we can do about all that, shall we? First, I threw the dress into a dye bath with my good friend, Scarlet. 🙂 After about 40 minutes in the dye and a rinse & dry, my new dress was ready to be taken in! I decided some of that length had to go as well! Now my new dress is ready for a fun supper with friends! I have to admit, there is no way I…
Day 364: All Tied Up Top
Today’s piece isn’t exactly fashion-forward, but it has sparkles to spare! Alright. The only thing I like about this top is the subtle glittery print. Time for some serious choppage! You can see how I’ve laid out one of my best-fitting tanks as a template for the shape of my future top. Are you wondering why I’ve left so much room on the sides? 🙂 I cut a bunch of 1″ish strips down each side, then tied them together! This is an extremely easy no-sew solution for any of your boring tops that are made of a fray-proof fabric! 🙂 Cheers!
Day 363: All the Angles Dress
When I found today’s dress at one of my fave $1 thrift stores, I was stoked! Check out the amazeballs print! 🙂 You’re looking at a totally 80’s shoulderpadded number that desperately needs a facelift! Time for a Nip/Tuck! First, I made a big chop! Then, I took in the whole thing about 2″ on each side. After cutting off the excess material, I folded the top raw edge over twice and stitched it down, leaving about a 1″ gap. This is where I’m going to insert some elastic. After digging through my stash, I realized I was all out of elastic! Ugh! And I was soooo not in the…
Day 362: Mairi Shrug
Today’s piece comes from a land down under! And yes – You’d better run. You’d better take cover! 🙂 You haven’t even seen the best part yet! I pretty much died laughing when I opened Mairi’s package. She certainly gave me quite a challenge! 🙂 Alright…as I’m not into Victorian Cosplay, these unmentionables were going to require a complete overhaul! First, I reached into my dye stash and pulled out this: Into a nice, hot bath of dye the bloomers went! After a rinse & dry, I realized that dyeing this in the machine had a negative consequence. :/ Thee good news was, not all of the lace was damaged,…
Day 361: The Right to Bare Arms…er…Arm Dress
Some days I honestly just don’t want to bother. But I must soldier on! I’m so verrrrry close to the end of my 365 Day project!!!! The print on today’s dress is lovely, but the cut and the size aren’t quite doing it for me. I wasn’t in a sewing mood, so I started playing with my new dress, and pinned it in a couple of places. Okay…so the above pics are slightly less than informative, so let me explain what I did here. I took one of the sleeves and pinned it inside the dress to my opposite shoulder. Then I pinned it again right near my armpit (from…
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…
