The Inexpert Crafter

Allow me to briefly introduce myself ... I'm Dee, I live in the UK, I'm a graphic designer, wife, mother of two and a very new and inexpert crafter. I co-founded a crafting group called A Crafty Coffee where about 20 people meet to chat and craft over a coffee (see what we did there?) every Friday morning.
In the past 12 months I have learned to knit, hand-appliqué, thread a sewing machine, write a blog and now to crochet.
I am passionate about reducing waste, reusing as far as humanly possible and recycling where ever I can.

My first proper refashion has been blogged about here, but Eddie over at Grey Duckling was so taken with is when she saw it in the flesh that she said I must submit something to the Refashion Co-op.

Both the blouse and the dress are original, home-made garments (carrying the embroidered initial S) from the late 1960s-early 1970s and, whilst some would describe this as sacrilege because of the rarity of children's vintage clothing, I took something that was hard to wear, and made it into an everyday garment.

All I did was to remove the frill that you see at the bottom of the dress, shorten it from ankle length, replace the frill and then embellish (my new favourite word) the empire line with the ribbon and button bow.