I retired this dress from my closet to my refash pile several years ago. I wore this dress a billions times because I loved it so much, but I finally got tired of it. I recently found it in my refash pile and fell in love with it again! It just needed an update!
I decided to tie the top of the dress into the bottom of the dress by adding blue bias tape to the neckline and arm holes.
Then I wanted to shorten this dress so I marked where I wanted my new hem to to end.
I cut and and hemmed the bottom!
Now I have a leftover piece of fabric.
I draped this leftover piece of fabric across the shoulders.
Took a trip to the Cheese House in Frankenmuth in my new dress!
Happy Refashioning!!!
Check out my stash of refashions on my blog!
Lors d'un défi avec ma copinaute Lauriane de "Made in Liochka" , j'ai réalisé cette transformation de robe à empiècement avec manches 3/4 en robe sans manches et dans une taille inférieure....
Le patron qui m'a servi est un patron d'un vieux Burda (07/1994) que j'ai déjà testé et que j'aime beaucoup car finalement très simple à réaliser. Ici j'ai juste modifié le patron pour avoir un empiècement en haut de la robe.
Voici la robe de départ :
Et voici la nouvelle petite robe que j'ai déjà porté d'ailleurs ......
I bought these 100% cotton curtains with this particular project in mind. The shop assistant wanted to charge me £5.99 each curtain so I just bought one, there was sufficient fabric as they were fairly large. I was making a dungarees / pinafore dress with a commercial pattern and the first job was to seam rip the lining and curtain tape away, but I actually enjoy this part of the process it feels like I am producing fabric. The label on the curtains said dry clean only so they had been in my washing machine on a normal cycle and suffered no ill effects.
Once removed from the lining and washed, the fabric was much more floppy than I had anticipated and this pattern requires a fairly stiff fabric. After some thinking I decided to fully interface the main pieces, and fully line the dress using the curtain lining. I was slightly concerned that this would make the dress too hot and stiff but it worked out OK although I have had the comment that it looks like an apron. There are more details and photos here
Hello Refashion Co-op. I wanted a pair of cropped pants with wide legs like I have seen all over Instagram. I thought I could make a pair myself out of these long dress pants. I also wanted to wear this puke green blouse with them.
I took some excess from the sides of the blouse, and made new side seams.
I also took some excess fabric from the back of the shirt, that helped raise the neckline.
The pants were easy. I just took a little fabric from the waist and hip area. I left the legs as loose as possible. I made them much shorter and gave them a new hem.
My new cropped pants were ready to wear. They are really comfortable but still feel a little dressy.
Thanks for reading along, for more details and pictures go to I Can Work With That .
Are overalls making a comeback? I have been seeing a lot of girls wearing them lately. Well, I guess it’s time to jump on the bandwagon!
Here I have a button down shirt that resembles denim, which I thought would be perfect to make into an overall skirt!
I removed the sleeves and set them aside. Then I cut just below the sleeve seam to make the skirt portion.
I began pinning the casing for my elastic by rolling over the top of the skirt material. I left about an inch casing to fit 1 inch elastic.
I sewed the casing all the way around but leaving a 1 1/2 inch gap open so I could thread the elastic through.
I threaded the elastic through with my trusty Bodkin, but you can also use a safety pin. Once that was done, I stitched the 2 ends of the elastic together, overlapping by about 1 inch.
After that I sewed up the 1 1/2 inch gap to seal in the elastic.
Since my skirt was now done It was time to focus on making the straps for the overall part!
I brought out the sleeves I set aside. I cut 4 equal parts out of the 2 sleeves.
Sewed the 4 parts lengthwise and inside out. Once that was done, I turned all 4 parts right side out. Once they were all right side out I sewed 2 pieces together at the end to make 2 very long straps.
With my 2 long straps down I attached them to the skirt. I found the perfect place in the back to sew them to the skirt. Then I crossed the straps in the back and stitched them in the front of the skirt!
I was on a roll making this overall skirt I went on to make a shirt to wear with it!
I was having fun thrifting long sleeve shirts with unique patterns.
I loved this tulip-ish pattern!
I mimicked the tulip pattern and made 3 cut-outs at the neckline.
At the cuff of the sleeve I cut slits 1 inch apart all the way around the sleeve.
I threaded some cream color ribbon through the slits and sewed the ends together to make them secure.
It was a cute idea but the weather was just a tad too cold. I will have to try again to wear this out and about!
