Mom's peplum dress part 1 (refashion 40!)

Mom gave me another dress (yay for dresses!) I was a big black peplum dress she was going to wear. She actually paid a seamstress to fix an invisible zipper which was not put in right... something I could easily fix for her but I'm so far away....

I had no before pictures which I don't know what happened. So I am going to blame computer gnomes. I only had this picture. An almost semi-before. I had cut off the top from the skirt and decided to turn it into 2 pieces. It was going to take a lot of work, A LOT, to get it to be a dress. I opted to go for basic wardrobe staples. I simply cut the top from the bottom. Nothing fancy about that!

I took in the sides and added a side zipper, which with a tight skirt gave me issues beyond belief. I should have just unpicked the center of it. Lesson learned. I finished the top of the skirt with black bias tape. This gave me a wonderful finishing.

Done! Something simple to go with things. Easy option for work!

Recap! Part 1 is the skirt. Part 2 is next.... I am sure you can guess it, a peplum top!

If you can tell I'm slightly off with my blogging. Normally things are scheduled and I just sort of lost track of things. There are some things that in my personal life that I am dealing with and taking a lot of time. I hoping things calm down soon. I can tell I look exhausted in the pictures. I am very tired. I am just trying to take things as I can. This Friday will be my next refashion. Luckily I realized I am getting close to being halfway done and that did cheer me up.

Cheers,
Lauren
49 left!!!

Pink/Purple Tie Dye Maxi Dress Refashion

I had this dress for a bit but for some reason it never worked. I wore it once and then it shrunk some and it was a weird length. Then I found myself pulling up the top. It was just too frustrating to wear.

So hard to see the bottom oddly, ok whatever. I took a pair of scissors to the top part of the dress. Here is the top from the bottom, separated. Weird huh?

Time to make it a maxi skirt. I serged the top portion of the skirt b/c I hate unfinished edges. 

Fold over, sew-creating a casing. Feed through some elastic. Adjust to fit. 

Connect the elastic together- however your heart feels content to sew it.... (LOL!)

Done! A maxi skirt that fits. I need to mess around with styling. No more anyone seeing my weird feet and ankles!

Got to love easy refashions!

xoxoxo,
Lauren

Aqua dress

Another found gem from goodwill. Loved the color hated the dress.

Here's the back

The zipper only went to the waist and the rest of the dress buttoned. EEEEEK!!!

After thinking about it, I decided I just wanted to keep the skirt portion of the dress. It was high waisted and pencil shaped. I could work with it.

I took out me seam ripper and detached the top from the skirt.

I folded down the top and hemmed it down.

I put it on my dress form and took it in some and hemmed up the bottom.

Done!

Yeah it needs some ironing but I love this skirt and it is not black. So now I have some color in my wardrobe. And it is work appropriate! Yay!

xoxox,
Lauren