Thursday, May 12, 2011

The unusually tropical dress

I have set myself a personal challenge to try and complete as many of my UFOs as I can in a week. I am calling this the Roswell challenge!

This is the first one, a dress refashion that had been sitting around pretty much since I first bought my sewing machine. It was a shapeless sack with a scoop neckline. I added some gathers around the waist, altered the neckline using the dress's belt and it was done! More details on my blog. I am quite impressed that I managed to hit both the Roswell challenge and Around the World in 80 Dresses challenge!

before-shapeless
after- shapely





5 comments:

Becky said...

Heh heh, Roswell challenge. I like it.

Lovely dress, too! I'm a sucker for tropical prints. :)

monkeysocks said...

Thanks Becky! I don't really have any tropical prints, so it is quite exciting to get something different, it makes me feel very summery.

valerierbrems said...

Wow that looks really good! Great job dear!

Refashion said...

Very clever! It looks gorgeous on you ... I love how a few little mods really change the dress!

Jessica
EOD

monkeysocks said...

Thanks! I think this has been one of my most successful refashions, Though I thought at first it might be little baggy, I keep wanting to wear it, I must put it in the wash quick!