Friday, August 12, 2011

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

3 comments:

Cori said...

nice work megs! Altering is such a beast. You did great. Love it.

Emily said...

It looks great! I'm not brave enough to take on that much altering.
Oh, and you still look beautiful being under the weather and all. Hope you guys feel better soon!

Forever Young said...

Thanks Emily, you are too nice. I really just kind of take my time

Cori, I wanted to tell you that I love the picture that you posted but blogger still isn't letting me post comments on your blog, lamo. But yes, I loved it!!!

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