Day 63 : Purple sequin bow dress inspired by pinterest

Today is a good one! OMG I love this dress! I know many people are addicted to Pinterest like me. I love it and I usually pin before I sleep. I found this really cute dress, that I realized I could copy it as any easy refashion. It is from a store called Red Velvet and no longer available.

Take this sad mom dress, found for $0.99 at Goodwill.

I used the following pattern to make it smaller b/c I knew the this was going to take a lot of work. I had just enough of the fabric to follow the pattern. But without the sleeves

I saved the bias trim on the dress to reuse it again for the dress.

Next I have learned from previous refashions that I need to add some stabilizer interface for this dress or it will sag. I ironed on some.

Next I sketched out with a pen how I wanted to make the bow. I used Clover's white gel based pen that simply irons away! I love this pen!

I had some gold sequin on a string in my stash and decided I was going to use 2 rows of it for thickness. So sew, sew, sew!! :) Actually I attempted to sew got angry and then decided to glue the trim on. No need to raise my blood pressure with the stress I am already dealing with.... I glued in small pieces and would let it dry and then go to the next part of the bow. Really, once I had the design it was pretty simple to glue.

After I was done gluing I pulled off the stabilizer. I cut off the last sequins on the ends of the strings and made sure it looked good. Now I need to finish the armholes and neckline. I had originally saved all of the bias trim from the dress but I did not have enough. Surprisingly the neckline was bigger than on the original dress. So I purchased the closest purple I could match to the dress and sewed it on the neckline and armholes. Oh yeah and don't forget to hem! Done!

Here is the end dress! Love it!

Actually this pattern was awesome! I cut a 12 (remember sewing sizes are different than sizes in the stores) and did not need to alter anything. I will plan on using this pattern for other projects b/c it fit well (I see a glitter slinky dress in my future with this pattern!).  Besides the differences in color, I think it was a great copy cat dress! Yay! For more of my 90 days of blogging click here.

xoxoxo,
Lauren

Day 14: Breakfast at Tiffany's Dress Refashion

When I first started this dress refashion, I actually called it aqua tent.

Because literally it was a tent made up of aqua polyester. It had a zipper but tied on the sides???? Too long. Those sleeves are horrible! bleh!

So I cut off some of the bottom. Took some of the dress in and fixed the armholes. Wow the dress already looked so much nicer!!!

Then for some reason, I wanted to add some pearls to the bodice, after I got rid of the ugly, I realized I had a nice Tiffany blue dress. So I blinged the bodice with pearls I had in my stash!

First, I just took the larger pearls and outlined the area I wanted to fill in.

Then I randomly scattered the larger pearls throughout the entire area (I used all of them! yay!). Next I took the next size below and added. And then filled in with smaller sizes so you could barely see the blue underneath. Done!

I love this dress so much! The color is great. The pearls let me not have to wear a necklace. It is now breakfast at tiffany's and no longer aqua tent! :) 14 days down 46 more days to go! For all of my 60 days to dc blogging posts click here. 

Cheers,
Lauren

Teal Dress refashion

I found this dress one day at goodwill. I really loved the detail below the bodice and thought I could work with it. When I got home and looked at the dress further, it may have actually been a PJ and not an actual dress but I could probably turn it into a dress or even use it as a coverup.



First, this dress is too long. I cut off the bottom.

Next, it has a wonderful bias trim at the sleeves but not anywhere else. I decided to add black bias trim to the neckline and also the hem. It kind of finished the garment and made it more of a dress. :)

Next, I wanted to add some detail to the middle design. I had some black seed beads in my stash and used them to make the design. Off I went to bead...

Here's half way done with beading. It took me much longer to bead than I expected b/c of the curves of the design. And I am a mad beader!



Done! Here is my new dress...



I promise you that the length is even. For some reason in the picture it looks crooked! LOL. But adding those few details, really pulled the dress together!

XOXOXOXO,
Lauren
(yes more blogs coming up, I am playing catch up!)