Thursday, June 16, 2011

Simple dress refashion

Hi everyone,

This refashion is from a few weeks ago... fairly quick and simple! I started out with this:


I really loved the pattern and fabric of this thrifted dress, but it was just too big for me. So I put it on inside out, marked my waist, hips, and bust, and then just sewed a new side-seam curving along that line. With a belt, the dress then became this:


More refashions on my blog.

Hope everyone is having a good summer so far!

2 comments:

dameglendamade said...

love that gorgeous dress! good job!

-=G=-

poet said...

It looks so elegant! I regularly do this kind of a re-sizing refashion and I don't always know if it's worth a post (I just made it smaller, didn't I?) but yours definitely is because you changed the whole silhouette!