Wednesday, June 9, 2010

CURED!

I, like The Prodigy, have THE REMEDY. The pulsating rhythmical remedy. Except not Pulsating or rhythmical. And also "Pulsating"?... kinda gross.

Wait, what was I talking about?
Oh yup! 'Member I had the yips? Where everything I touched turned to wet kitty poop? Well I CURED them. With a dress. THIS dress.


And it's a refashion, in fact it's a refashion of a refashion. And even the elastic I used was pillaged from someplace else. (jammie pants maybe?)
The bottom part started life last year as a smocked tube-top maxi dress. Bought for all of $3 in the Old Navy sale. I wore once but it was WAY too big. Just for the record - tube-tops + too bigness = a recipe for disaster.

So I made it into a wrap skirt. And it was... meh. So meh that I wore it once and then it sat in the refashion basket for a year.

The purple thing on top of it is a dirt cheap Old Navy ribbed tank that some genius (moi) splashed bleach on.
I whacked them together using Little Red Roost's awesome tute. And voila. I'm cured of the snausage-fingered foul-up-itis sewing yips . I'm also pretty happy with how it turned out and I predict a BUNCH of wear out of it.

Oh hey, I don't know it you've noticed, but I kind of like dresses. I was thinking about that because I've just signed up to do this:



And I'm having trouble getting fired up about sewing anything but dresses.
I THINK it's because dresses are my yoga pants.
Not that I do yoga in them. ( I don't do yoga in anything... wait... I don't mean I do yoga nekkid, I mean I don't do it at all!)
But you know how some women can throw on a pair of yoga pants and a tee and look adorable?
Me - not so muchly. I put on sweats and I look like I forgot to get dressed. I feel 10 lbs fatter and three inches shorter in yoga pants. And really. Who needs that?
This frock has the same kind of throw-it-on-and-you're-dressed thing as sweats but I feel DRESSED in it.
So that's that. Dress made, yips cured.

5 comments:

  1. Nice save (and color!). I'm new to dresses but I'm finally understand how amazingly awesome they are. Way more comfortable than anything else with the added bonus of being cute. I only have one on my list but I'm going to try and squeeze another one in ;) And thanks for the link to the tute!

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  2. Really pretty. It's so satisfying to create something new out of item you no longer like. And I find that kind of dress (made from a skirt and top) so comfortable!

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  3. Love your refashion! I can totally symathize, i have had the "yips" lately too!! Hopefully, this will be the fix you need for a productive summer :O)

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  4. I really like it! I've been reading your blog whenever I see a new post up at WR and now I am your new follower :)

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  5. Hi Justine, nice to meet ya! And Hi Ali, LOVE the Blog. I'm pretty excited about the whole SESA. (I'm hoping to cure The Shorts Fear!)

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