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Red Romper Red Romper

My beautiful daughter took this picture of this less than beautiful dress. I thrifted it for a few dollars a long while back. I picked apart the skirt andplaced a pants pattern in its place. Picked off the sleeves and cuffs. Whole lotta sleeves! Extra fabric to make a sash belt. I found the center of the cuffs and pinned it for reference. You will see what I do with them! Bias tape around the sleeves and attached the cuffs. Check out the sleeves! Its actually the cuffs! I love my new romper! See you next time!

I'm a 90's Chick!

I've been working on this one on and off for weeks now. I finally finished it, and I wanted to show you what I accomplished. This was a $2.00 score! It really doesn't get much better than that! This fabric was so soft! It was in great condition! Buttons up the back, weird side ties. Droopy arm holes. It was HIDEOUS! Right up my alley! I then realized I was wearing it backwards! The buttons were supposed to be down the front.  Oh well, I like it better this way anyhow. Did I mention this has pockets???? I took up the shoulders about 2 inches.  I Stitched those shoulders, then snipped off the extra fabric. That made the arm pit droopiness considerably better! It needed some length taken off the bottom too, so that got a snip, (about 7 inches of snip!)  Those goofy side ties came off too. Snip! Pick! With the seven inch bottom scrap, I fashioned a kind-of-sort-of-sleeve from a dress pattern. It didn't quite fit the pattern, bu...