So I was inspired by this woman's blog, you can see it here..she takes awful, thrift store, old, out of date clothes and turned them into cute unique finds! I decided that I was going to do that too. I found this awful thing at our friendly local Goodwill....
It is floral, it had shoulder pads and it wasn't a dress...it was made into shorts? Ewwww.....but I thought it was perfect for my first up-cycle! With a little work, I ended up with a totally cute dress!
The first thing that I had to do was take out these shoulder pads.
Next was fixing the shorts. It was a little bit tricky, but after getting all of the stitching out, it was more like a puzzle.
After getting all of the old stitching out of the way, I pinned the fabric in place to where it would be a skirt. A few stitches were all that it needed after that!
Thankfully, the jumpsuit/dress already had ties attached at the back that I was able to tie into a bow and give it a better silhouette. I debated taking the sleeves off, but decided that I had better not do too much...I would probably ruin it. Also, the fabric didn't seem to be right with no sleeves (I know, random reason, I guess I'm just too picky!)
So here we go! I have a cute dress that is unique, cheap, comfy and mine! It looks super duper cute with a jean jacket(:
It cost me a total of $3.68 and about thirty minutes. I think I have just found a new favorite hobby(:
PS..I'm sorry about the awful picture color/quality...I need to learn cameras a little better.
