A friend of mine approached me about a week ago and told me she bought a dress in the children's department and wanted me to turn it into a skirt. Intrigued and slightly disbelieving, and agreed to take a look at it.
Turns out this thin friend of mine bought matching mother/daughter dresses: one for her five-year-old, and a size 16 for herself. Looking at the dress, it seemed like the remake wouldn't be that hard, so I dove right in.
The dress started out with this pretty doily-like bodice, which is cute on a little person, but rather matronly on an adult waistband:
The first step was to detach the lacy overlay,
then cut the bodice even with the back (approximately 3 inches above the seam at the top of the skirt.)
I then serged around the raw edge, folded it over to meet the existing seam, pinned it in place, and sewed around, leaving a gap for the elastic.
I added elastic and sewed it shut.
Start to finish, the project took about an hour and a half and I think it tuned out beautifully!
It's nice to get back to being creative! See you soon!
Linked to:
Blue Cricket Design
Turns out this thin friend of mine bought matching mother/daughter dresses: one for her five-year-old, and a size 16 for herself. Looking at the dress, it seemed like the remake wouldn't be that hard, so I dove right in.
The dress started out with this pretty doily-like bodice, which is cute on a little person, but rather matronly on an adult waistband:
The first step was to detach the lacy overlay,
then cut the bodice even with the back (approximately 3 inches above the seam at the top of the skirt.)
I then serged around the raw edge, folded it over to meet the existing seam, pinned it in place, and sewed around, leaving a gap for the elastic.
I added elastic and sewed it shut.
Start to finish, the project took about an hour and a half and I think it tuned out beautifully!
It's nice to get back to being creative! See you soon!
Linked to:
Blue Cricket Design
3 comments:
You are so amazingly talented!!
What a blessing to have a gift of sewing! :) That skirt turned out just adorable!!!! Wish you lived closer.....I've got a ton of things that I'd hire you to remake for me! :)
xoxo laurie
Very cool! I hope you'll share this at the scrappy saturdays link up tomorrow! @ http://candacecreations.blogspot.com]
Excited to find your blog!
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