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Refashioned Dress for little girl!! *pics*!  

post #1 of 34
3/22/07 at 4:11pm
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In my adventures thrifting I often find clothes & sheets & things that need to be repurposed/refashioned into something else but i just cant pass up the fabric. This was one of those cases. Its a 55% linen / 45% cotton blend, and just feels SO great in the hands. Gorgeous colors & a pretty, springy print... love it

I forgot to take a before picture, but it was an ankle-length A-line dress XL womens. I chopped it up to make a dress for DD (but wound up being too small - about a size 4T).... here's what I came up with:

peek at the dress here!

lemme know what you thinK!
post #2 of 34
3/22/07 at 4:13pm
It's really cute!
post #3 of 34
3/22/07 at 4:14pm
Wow! That's really sweet!
post #4 of 34
3/22/07 at 4:39pm
You did a beautiful job-the workmanship is impeccable!
post #5 of 34
3/22/07 at 5:51pm
ok, that is gorgeous!
post #6 of 34
3/22/07 at 6:05pm
Oh yea, that material WOULD have been hard to pass up! I just read an article by a woman who uses thrift store finds a lot. She uses pieces/strips and sews them together to make a patchwork kind of fabric - then sews with it. That would be fun, too. Your dress makes me want to go thrifting!!!!!
post #7 of 34
3/22/07 at 6:12pm
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i love the idea of creating a patchwork fabric and then working with that too! i have TONS of scraps i could do that with hmmmm! Thanks for sharing the idea! Do you know the name of the lady that does that? I'd love to see her work too

oh - and you wont BELIEVE what i got the dress for.... 75-cents!! hehe
post #8 of 34
3/22/07 at 6:53pm
I love the double layer skirt. I bet it's fun to twirl in.
post #9 of 34
3/22/07 at 7:47pm
Love it! What a cute design!
post #10 of 34
3/22/07 at 10:01pm
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thanks SO much! I designed it myself it was a lot of fun!
post #11 of 34
3/22/07 at 10:05pm
Ya thinking of selling it?
post #12 of 34
3/23/07 at 10:25am
Great job, and great idea on the thrifted-clothes fabric! I need to remember that sort of thing when thrifting!
post #13 of 34
3/23/07 at 11:00am
I love it!
post #14 of 34
3/23/07 at 12:09pm
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Originally Posted by kandkrose View Post
i love the idea of creating a patchwork fabric and then working with that too! i have TONS of scraps i could do that with hmmmm! Thanks for sharing the idea! Do you know the name of the lady that does that? I'd love to see her work too

oh - and you wont BELIEVE what i got the dress for.... 75-cents!! hehe
Score!!!

I'll try to find the article this afternoon when I am cleaning!

I also watched on DIY (I think) a quilting show once where a woman saved all her scraps from sewing by colors. Then she made big swatches of yellow, blue, etc. with the scraps and made gorgeous quilts with them.
post #15 of 34
3/23/07 at 4:53pm
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Quote:
Ya thinking of selling it?
maybe Honestly we dont have room to keep it around for another year or so while we wait for DD2 to grow into it LOL, so if anyone wants it, PM me and we'll talk hehe

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Score!!!

I'll try to find the article this afternoon when I am cleaning!

I also watched on DIY (I think) a quilting show once where a woman saved all her scraps from sewing by colors. Then she made big swatches of yellow, blue, etc. with the scraps and made gorgeous quilts with them.
AWESOME! that's a great idea! i need to start sorting more of my goodies so i can do something like that lol - right now they're just folded as best as they can be in my craft (storage right now lol) room - thanks for looking for that article too -awesome!
post #16 of 34
3/24/07 at 1:22am
Very cute, I have some vintage Laura Ashley dresses made of beautiful lawn cotton that I hope to do the same with, great inspiration.
post #17 of 34
3/24/07 at 1:24am
Adorable!

When my older DS wears holes in the knees of his longjohns or jeans I cut them down to make clothes for the little one too.
post #18 of 34
3/24/07 at 11:11am
That is adorable!
post #19 of 34
3/24/07 at 12:43pm
love it! what a cute dress! I do that too, look for fabric to recycle. I've made dresses for myself out of sheets from Pottery Barn... and a linen curtain and napkin dress for myself. At a thrift that sells clothes by the pound I buy linen no matter what form its in and remake it into something useable. Like a out of style large dress I made into a sweet 40's style dress for my sister. so fun to reuse!

I might "borrow" that design for a friends baby - using a gorgeous sheer curtain I got at Goodwill yesterday.... is it ok to use the design?
post #20 of 34
3/24/07 at 12:48pm
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yes absolutely! just not for resale please hehe
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