Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Convertible dress

Hey! I decided to make a couple of convertible items of clothing...I love garments that can be worn many ways.

I knew I had to have this fabric when I found it at one of my local op-shops :
$1.99 for 2m ^ _^ I love bargins!
I also knew I wanted to make a dress from it but it wasn't till this morning I decided to make a convertible dress...this is a very simple dress to make with only 4 pieces: circle skirt, waist band and two straps...there is an easy to follow tutorial here. Heres mine:





I love it! I'm definately going to make another in this style when I can find myself some suitable fabric. I've made a couple other convertible dresses using a different pattern and they always get alot of compliments and are very fun to wear :)

I would have taken more pics if my rechargable camera batteries would actually stay charged long enough...grrr. So I will post more pics on my FB page sometime this week aswell as the convertible bikini top I made but didn't get a chance to photograph!



9 comments:

Huli said...

haha i really need to get better at editing my posts 1st! it's a convertible dress Huli not converible dress! oh dear.

Refashion said...

Hey Huli, no worries, I changed the spelling of the title for you!

I LOVE THIS DRESS! It is so practical for summer, and the fact you can wear it different ways makes it incredibly versatile, well done you!!

Erica
EOD Refashion Co-op

Huli said...

thanks =)

LF said...

Coooooool! In the states we call these 'Infinity' dresses because they can be worn so many ways. Was it easy?

Sorry to hear about Christchurch, btw.

glam.spoon said...

that's a lot of bang for the buck! and i love the versatility. now I have to make one. :)

CarmencitaB said...

Great dress!

Unknown said...

I love this but I still can't figure it out.

Eddie

Erin said...

I love this dress (actually I love a lot of what you do) because it is translatable to those of us with less that sylph-like figures. Thanks so much for sharing it. You did great!

Lindsey A. Turner said...

That is so cool! It looks great on you- in all the different ways!

Lindsey Turner
http://thriftandshout.blogspot.com