I've been reading up on refashioning clothes lately - I'm especially loving this blog:
ReFashionista! She takes the most horrible thrift store clothes and makes them into gorgeous, trendy outfits! I happened to get a sewing machine for Christmas and I finally got it set up - I've done a little sewing before, but usually with intense guidance from a skilled sewer - now I'm learning to do it on my own! So anyway, here's a piece that Jillian (the
ReFashionista) did that inspired my own!
Here's the skirt that I started out with:
Seeing what it might look like as a dress:
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Not bad, but a little longish and loose up top. (I wore my tank top underneath for coverage.) |
What I did next:
To be honest, I didn't initially plan to have it be a halter top. First, I took it in a little bit in hopes that it would fit me as a strapless dress. That helped. (Although the pattern in the back looks kinda wonky where I took it in.) Then I folded the dress and made a diagonal cut to make the "high-low" style I was after. I hemmed that, which proved a little difficult for me. (Remember, I'm not an experienced sewer. Also, I didn't have any pins on hand. Just don't look at the final hem closely.) Then I decided that I wasn't comfortable with the strapless part - it just wasn't staying as snugly as I'd like. So I took the scraps that I cut off the bottom, pieced together a halter strap, and sewed in on (just like in the inspiration piece). Below is the result!
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Sweet summer dress! |
Ironically, as I type this, I'm home from work due to a snow day (our roads are literally closed, no travel permitted, not common here in Minnesota), so it'll be awhile before I get to wear this in public. Also, as you can see, I managed to get a picture that I took with my phone properly rotated! HOORAY! I rotated it in picmonkey and that seemed to stick, unlike when I rotated it with my computer's software. And below is my first picmonkey collage: