HELLO and Compliments of the Season to all Ye talented members of the needlework community. It's holiday season and now, I'm reunited with my machine. It also feels so good to be back here, sharing my progress in the community. Today, I came across this gown my mom has had for a while but didn't wear anymore. The design on the gown was simple and looking at it, I thought a nice dress for church could be made out of this gown. I thought of possible things I could do that even if things didn't turn out well, it would still be wearable. Of everything I had thought of, the best idea that came to mind was roping the sides of the gown.
I have no idea what they call dresses like this but I've seen similar styles on people and I decided to try that out with this gown. I got to working on the gown and trusted the process till the end.
For the restyling of this dress, I used a tape rule, scissors, thread, and 25inches of black material.
The gown like I said earlier, was simple as is. So, that meant I only had to do a very little thing to enhance it from simple to something more elegant. And what was it I intended to do? I intended for it to be synched at the waistline as against the straight design the gown came with.
The first thing I did with this gown was to prepare the material I was going to use for the loops. For the loops, I measured a length of 24inches from a black material we weren't using anymore. I divided the length into four equal parts and sewed their edges manually using a needle and a thread. I did that for the four pieces and when they were neat enough to be used, I went on to loose the sides of the gown.
I measured to my waist, where I wanted the loops to be and I loosed the about 7 inches for both sides. When I was done, I began to attach the loops. I placed the loops three inches apart from each other and I held it using a safety pin.
Then, I stitched back the open edges using my machine. This is one of the easiest projects I embarked on this year and when the dress came out nice, I was happy that of all the ugly ways this dress threatened to turn into, it didn't. It took me about two hours to refashion this dress.
Passing a rope through the loops and fastening them together, I got what I wanted and I was happy with how it synched at the waist line. This would be a perfect dress to attend church events and I'm happy it turned out nicely.
What do you think about how this dress turned out? As for me, I like how it did.
Images are mine