The same paper pattern can be implemented in many ways. Here’s another dress for Coco using the same pattern as the animal print dress. My little model told me to shorten the front of the skirt so she won’t step on it. Here are the before-snip pics.
Why a muumuu? It’s looser, made of a really thin and cool material, and the print reminds me of muumuus. Same pattern as the animal print doggy dress but longer and looser.
So lucky to have been gifted these!
This is a quilting square from Walmart. Coco’s a small dog so this was just enough for an outfit. Her outfits are usually made with knits of some sort. Trying a non stretch woven with this dress. Here’s Coco modeling her new dress 🙂
Tweaked a shift dress pattern by using just the bodice part and giving it a waistband and a circle skirt. Added strips to the sides that are long enough to tie into a bow at the back. Is this a fun dress, work dress, or party dress? Hmmm..
A simple dress with a movable bow that can turn 1 dress into multiple looks.
Remember my birthday dress? Here’s how it was constructed, without the pintucks. The pintucks are optional. Finish the collar last if you decide to add pintucks. Here is a dress without pintucks. The pintucks are useful for shaping the dress – fitting around the bust and loose from waist down, tighter on the back… Please…
Made this today.
I don’t typically buy patterns as i have been getting by with DIYing. However, this pattern called to me at Walmart. I traced out the top pieces on packing paper that came with handbags so i don’t feel bad about poking holes and slowly destroying the original pattern pieces. Anyone else does that? Since i…
While organizing my fabric stash, i stumbled upon 2 remnants from previous projects – the end of a skirt that i had chopped off to shorten a store-bought piece, and a skirt lining of a previous early project that hadn’t worked out. The skirt fabric is hardy yet stretchy and would make a great bodice.…
This is one of the pieces from the fabric.com 3lb knit box off of Amazon. It is so colorful that i didn’t know what to do with it for a while. Inspiration came one evening and this is what came out of it. The back is cross-back and somewhat bare. I changed the back a…
It always begins with rifling through the fabric stash and leftovers that treasure is found. So I found a striped green fabric that is stretchy. Just enough to make a square top. I bound the neckline and arm holes with fold over elastic. Then remembered a ribbed knit tank top left it the stash. Cut…
Made this over two days. Decided to cut away the lace front after being told it looked like neglige.
My friend’s 4 months along and she has been so inundated with things and life that there been no time to shop for summer appropriate maternity clothing. So I thought this would be a great time to try making maternity clothing. I used my usual no-pattern patterns to make 2 outfits. 1. extra large front…
Hello all! I just wrote my very first instructable. Here’s the refashioned dress with lacy straps. Do pop by to take a look – I have detailed out the steps and added lots of photographs. Also, do vote for me in the Instructable DIY Dress Contest if you like what you see. I’d appreciate it…
Happy 2016! How did you spend the first day of the new year? I spent a few hours sewing and it was delightful. Remember square tops and how easy those are? Here’s a little twist to the square top by lengthening it into a tunic and then adding a cowl neck and a thick sheer…
Made this dress some time ago and thought I’d have loads of opportunities to wear it. I did wear it. Once. So I guess it needs some refashioning. Chopped off the bottom to make a new skirt. The dress itself is updated with white lace at the hem. Just like the skirt.:) Hope more occasions…
My friend Ella came by for a sewing session today and made a new top for herself by tracing out a shirt she had. She made some interesting changes: increased the length and gave it a subtle high low hem, lowered the neckline, left off the collar, made it sleeveless. I’ll share a pic if…
This is my latest project! More details to follow. 🙂 Sometime in early January, I was browsing JCP.com for work pants and chanced upon a cropped top in the sale section. At $3.99 per piece (U.P. $16.00), I saw lots of possibilities for refashioning. Especially since the cropped top look isn’t what I usually go…
So I got really busy yesterday, started work on a project with a very Christmassy looking fabric. This was a birthday present and is called America The Beautiful, CRK-70295-3. It’s 100% cotton, not something I usually work with, or experiment on. I have found that knits are more forgiving for an experimenter who doesn’t follow…
Got some old bedsheets lying around? Experiment with them! That’s what I did today. I took an old blue bed sheet that was gifted to me years ago by friends who knew I dabble in the sewing and crafting and made something new. I used the cross-over bust pattern for the top and extended the…
A friend’s friend was out cycling and the edge of her beautiful rectangle skirt got torn. My friend knew of my sewing hobby and asked if i could fix the jagged hem of the outfit. Sure! So here is the dress with the torn rectangle skirt. The bicycle really chewed up that edge! I had…
Received some floral vintage fabric from a friend and here’s what I did with I it. A brand new dress with some quality knit from fabricmartfabrics.
L dropped by with a bag of clothes she needed refashioned or shortened. So we worked on measuring, cutting, and sewing for 4 to 5 hours. Boy was it fun! We shortened 3 pairs of jeans, refashioned a pair of yoga pants and a tube dress. Here is said tube dress. It’s a trifle loose…
I’ve not been doing much sewing for me and it’s been hard. Really hard. It’s like the sewing machine calls to me when i walk by. “Use me! Pick up some thread! Let’s sew!” Anyway, it totally broke down my resistance. So i present to you… my new purple velour dress. 🙂 This was material…
Here’s the first bday present i made in addition to the floral skirt with tulle underlining. The second is a puffy tulle skirt with floral print and black elastic waistband. .First, i took a dress that my friend had left with me as a measurement guide. The material is stretchy so i didn’t have to…
In a previous post, Ella showed you how she refashioned a pair of jeans into a cute pair of shorts with lace. We were left with 2 jean legs (yeah, fabric!) which we turned into a jean tube dress. I cut open each leg to get two almost rectangular pieces of fabric. You could unpick…
I did 2 projects with a yellow/black striped long sleeved tee a while ago – a reversible skirt and a dog’s turtleneck outfit. I still have one sleeve and the top part of the shirt left. While looking at the tshirt remnant, i had an idea… First, I cut off the collar and hemmed the…
Fabric.com had a sale a few weeks back and i just couldn’t resist buying some. My stash is growing… yeah! Here’s a dress that i made from pink stretchy suiting material and white lining. I traced a top that was fitting and cut out a front and back top on the pink material as well…
We’ve been on the look out for bar stools for our kitchen counter and stopping by a garage sale now and then to try our luck at finding some. They are tough to find! Anway, we were at an estate sale and came across some valances. $6 for a set of 4. I jumped at…
What shows more love for a friend than a custom made dress? 😀 Got great deals at Walmart on some comfy tank tops that would match some black fabric that i had. The black fabric’s a classic cotton blend seersucker from Fabric.com at $7.98/yd. I got some measurements, the materials (fabric, tank top, black thread,…
5 yards of red lace has been sitting in my fabric pile for over a year and i finally had an idea for it – a gathered skirt with 3 layers! Halfway through the project, i was playing around with draping and was hit by inspiration to turn it into a layering piece. So with…
Had some friends over for a super fun retro dance party and thought it’d be great to wear my halter dress, topped off with a newly made square top in black and white. A friend wore the pashmina top and looked absolutely fabulous! Check out the pic below. Follow these links to see pashmina top…
After working on my tunic, i had scraps left over. Long, somewhat thin rectangles. So here’s what i did. Front view with and without belt. Back and side view with belt.
Here’s a project i’m making for another dear friend. 1 plain pink tee from Hobby Lobby, some fabric from fabric.com cut in a high-low hem fashion and sewn together. I added a skirt lining and used leftover fabric cut from the t-shirt to make frills. This is one way of pinning the frills… have yet…
So i woke up today feeling a great urge to sew. So i did. Here’s my new dress. I love the skirt – the way it puffs out and falls nicely when i sit on the floor. I had some lovely pink fabric lying around and i thought it’d make a wonderful skirt. I found…
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