Bow dress refashion, #38

Another refashion for iron craft... the challenge was B. My B= bow. Let's start off with this bow dress. I thought it was darling but on, it seemed as if there were too many design ideas and none of them worked all together...

I mean but look at those stripes.... And I LOVE the bow. But I don't like straps with it and also the eyelet lace on the bottom on the dress.

Darn! That eyelet lace is SERGED on! To save myself time and frustration, I simply cut off the lace.

Next, off came the straps. Dress is instantly better. But I felt as if there needed a transition between the bodice and the skirt. I connected the straps to make like a belt. Sew down. I had just enough fabric for the straps. JUST enough. I also had to retack the bow down as removing the straps caused the bow to come somewhat loose. I then closed the holes where the straps were located. Dress is done!

Done!!! Dress is simpler and simply better. :) 

I actually wore it out recently to dinner with my hair and makeup all nicely done... and I completely did not take any photos. Grr. I got a lot of compliments on the dress.

Cheers!
Lauren

Men's striped shirt, #37

This is actually a man's shirt. Yes really. I found it in south Florida and it is totally befitting of what guys wear in south Florida. I just love that pink!

Too big....

To save some time. I only undid a portion of the armholes at each side with my seam ripper. I took it in on both sides and then took it in on the  sleeves too. Reattach the sleeves. 

Done! I have a new shirt! Perfect for spring. 

Yay. here is the recap.

Cheers,
Lauren

Maxi dress to skirt, #36

Mom found a dress for me. Thanks mom! But when I put it on. Something was off.

The top was too big and didn't hug my chest area, it constantly fell down. Then too short. Boo!

I cut the dress in half. I will convert the top to a swimsuit later. The bottom part I made a casing and added elastic. Poof now I have a maxi skirt and I will wear it.

It totally makes me want to twirl and spin in circles...

Recap! Easy refashion! 

Cheers,
Lauren

Peplum top, sew stylish pattern

Ok part of this sewing project was due to the refashion I started with the white jeans

But then things didn't look right and then I scrapped the idea. Basically I was going to add the bottom flowered part of the peplum to the white jean top but it did not work. Then I added the skirt instead.

So I decided to finish the peplum with this stretch light denim flowered material I got at a massive Hancock sale this past January. It is an easy pattern and I finished it fast. You can't tell but it does have a collar. I spent so much time making it that collar I wasn't going to change it. Here is my new top!

Fits perfectly of course! :)

Just a recap on the pattern.

And the previous sad sack jean refashion. 

Cheers to finishing another sewing project (I'm trying my hardest to keep up!!)
Lauren :)

gluten free cookie review

The best gluten free chocolate chip cookies in the world! Seriously that is what the box said. Found these at TJ Maxx.

 The funniest thing was the label on the bag inside.
Just like fine wine, these cookies must be opened and allowed for the flavor to develop for 10 minutes. So I did just that. They are small, bite size cookies.

They were actually pretty tasty. I will agree to that. I did enjoy them. They were one of the top gluten free cookies in the world. They are the crunch cookie and I prefer soft or else I'd say they might be the best cookies in the world. But I love the WOW chocolate chip cookies-b/c they are a soft cookie.

Not bad! I would recommend!

Cheers,
Lauren

Yellow H&M dress fix, #35

Found this dress that was from H&M, never worn for like next to nothing. I loved the print. I thought I could wear "as is" but when I put it on- too big. What the picture does not show you is the large armholes. But you can see that the top sheer portion of the dress comes a little low and it is too big.

I undid the bias tape on the top and armholes. I then took in the dress about an inch from the top. Serge the excess off. Then reattach the bias tape. Done!

Just a simple fix. It totally changes the dress. 

It really made the dress work and fall at the right places. 

Recap! 

Cheers,

Lauren

(and don't laugh all the photos coming up are me after taking a dance class and I was too lazy to take my hair out of braid and put on makeup-I just ran with it. )

Sherbert dreams dress refashion, #34

Iron craft challenge! This challenge was about art. To do something inspired by art. Again I am striving to do refashions this year, so I am going to start out with dress my mom gave me. It was the wrong color for my skin tone, not to mention that it was big and the sleeves tended to fly up.

Wahoo big!

I decided on my options and literally went on pinterest and just looked at art. I came across the poppies from Georgia O'Keefe. They have an orange base. I decided I could dye the dress and refashion it.

I went for RIT dye scarlet red and dyed the dress. It came out great!

I decided I wanted to take it in using elastic. My aim was to keep the dress, if I failed then I'll turn it into a skirt. 

I drew a line on my dress.

Cut a piece of elastic slightly smaller than my waist. 

Sew it to the dress while stretching i. 

To fix the sleeves, I took it in 3 times-you kind of don't see them b/c of the gathering of the sleeves.

I serged off the excess.

Then did a rolled hem on the bottom portion of the sleeve.

That lead to some stretching on the  bottom portion of the arm hole. 

The fix for that was taking it on the sides by machine. Done! 

I think i got the poppy red (with orange undertones). Dress is much wearable now 

With a belt. 

Yeah felt a little too much like Miss Claus so this belt is a no. 

Recap. The dress is wearable now! Yay!

Cheers to another refashion and another iron craft challenge! 

Lauren