First, I scrounged around for my outfit in all my salvaged craft supplies. A free onesie hand-me-down, a ribbon off of a birthday package, a stained yellow tshirt and a button that I salvaged from a shirt before throwing it in the rag pile.
I used the side of the shirt since I was trying to avoid the tar like stain that had landed the shirt in the material pile. I folded the onesie in half and laid it on top of the shirt.
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Then I cut out a skirt of two pieces, slightly larger at the waist to allow for seam allowance. If you are hoping for a pattern there isn't any, I just cut till I liked it. I would hold it up every now and then to see how it fell and when it looked good, I quit cutting.
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I then sewed a small hem along the bottom of the skirt pieces and then sewed up the side edges of the skirt making sure the hem s were on the same side as the side seams. I then turned the onesie inside out as well.
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Then I pinned the shirt edge to the skirt edge all the way around making sure the side seams of both the shirt and the skirt matched.
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I turned the dress inside out and if you want to you could end there. But I had matching scraps to add!
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I wanted to make a faux bow in the middle of the waist, so I marked the center of the ribbon and made loops of the same size next to it (picture will explain) and pinned it to make sure I had it centered right. (BTW, she was determined to be a princess hand model. Every time my camera was brought out, she insisted her hand be photographed, in case you are wondering why her hand keeps showing up, I couldn't always crop it out!)![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicueXcusuw8CWf6t_sJWOQxD86Nkn11SQA6HuoVotZhJpm8SNpkCk93jkivcfQHHhaEuynYIoBc2OgwByYxAxgSAqgaiVc1S2a25JaWHlM2FWAdRsNJMYhicrGL5Qjmp0S-SCbmQeA9BYI/s200/IMG_6416.JPG)
Then with matching thread I tacked it right in the middle with a few sewing machine stitches.
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Then I pinned the ribbon on the dress with the faux bow in the middle. My hand model distracted me a lot at this point and unfortunately, it turned out a bit off-centered. (Oh, well, it's purpose is to be a play-in-the-mud dress anyway.)
7 comments:
I think it looks just fine! :) That's coming from someone who used to make/wear cape dresses. ;)
Thanks, Stephanie! One day I will try and do an entire piece of clothing, but with the abundance of second hand materials for nothing, I have been having fun with just refashioning which gets me around what scares me - the sleeves and neckline! :)
Looks great to me!
It's very sweet. Nice work!
This is adorable, like your little princess! Actually, I think I'd like one... looks comfy!
New here- love your blog premise. I will be posting some of your ideas on my blog! Thanks!
I think this is GENUIS!!!
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