Make it just my size

With fall just around the corner I couldn't say no to a homemade dress with burnt Orange, Red, and Green vintage styled fabric paired with a classic cut.  Plus it was only $4. There were however, some problems. The shoulders needed to be taken in, a lot, all of the pleats were never backstitched to close off the ends (this could lead to unraveling, and with a fitted dress it is more likely to happen then not), and the sleeves were very restricting. In fact, it was so restricting that I could only lift my arms to about a 45 degree angle, as a mom or anyone who has to do a lot of movement in the day that just won't work.  I decided that this dress could be a great opportunity to practice my resizing skills...ha ha.  So I took it home and procrastinated................................................ and then procrastinated some more.........................................  Finally, with news of a wedding the very next day I sat down and started ripping seams, backstitching ends, cutting down, cutting down, pinning, trying on, getting poked, pinning again, trying on again, getting poked some more, taking in, until....  

Please don't mind the paleness that is my face and the lamo pictures, the little one and I are feeling pretty under the weather today.

Look... no more restricting sleeves;)

~meg