Sunday, July 7, 2013

Remake Sunday = New Outfit Monday


This dress/fabric sat on the sewing room floor in a wadder pile for about a year (click here to see the too-tight dress again, and scroll down), and today it became a simple pull-on skirt with back darts to reduce waist bulk. Since it was pretty much already a skirt, all I had to do with the dress was cut it off above the waist, unstitch the unserged sideseams about 4 inches to remove the overbodice, then add the back darts, serge the sideseams, add a serge-n-turn coverstitched elastic waist, and hem it. Changing threads in the machines took longer than anything. ;-)


And since the skirt only took about a minute to make, I next made Jalie 2806 from a stashed purple poly knit to go with it. The purple in the skirt actually matches exactly but the camera is playing tricks. (If you look closely, you can see the scraps from yesterday's dress on the floor under Zillie.)

I was glad to save the print and also to find a matching knit in the stash. I still have more of the solid and might make a short-sleeve cardi for a twinset.

I have a couple more dresses still waiting to become re-make skirts. Maybe the mojo will stick around long enough to see them come to life.

16 comments:

  1. Nice outfit! Colors really match.

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  3. Back in the saddle again... Debbie's back in the saddle again!

    I'm glad and so are lots of other followers!

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  4. Great save! I especially love the top! Glad to see you back.

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  5. Great outfit--it is so good to hear you sounding more like yourself again!

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  6. I like the print skirt.

    Glad the mojo is working

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  7. That is a great save! You will look fabulous tomorrow!

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  8. Well saved! Great to see you sewing again.

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  9. Your mojo is doing well so far. Cute skirt.

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  10. ...and it's Debbie for the save!!!!!

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  11. Debbie--glad to see you posting again! You have such creativity and generosity. I'm hoping there's a good job back in your future soon.

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  12. It's so nice to see you posting again! Hopefully some sewing will lift your spirits a bit! Mechelle

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  13. Je suis contente de vous retrouver
    Amicalement
    Claire

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  14. Good save! I hope this means your spirits are up!

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