Changing a Dress into a Skirt

Changing a Dress

into a Skirt

 

When “Future Author” was given this dress I thought it was perfect; loud, busy, colorful, and light weight material.  However, after she wore it one time she said matter of factly ”It’s Weird!”.

 I noticed how the shirt she wore under it would bunch up and move like crazy eventually ending up out of the dress she was wearing.  

 (all kinds of funny bunching)

To me there also seemed to be some redundant sewing decisions in the construction of the dress none of which worked. Which I didn’t notice until she said something.

( why elastic and a something to tie it with?)

A few weeks later she asked me if I could make it into a skirt.  I looked at the dress, analyzing the seams in further detail, taking it apart in my head and came to the conclusion that I could, so I told her yes. 

Into the mending pile it went. When I pulled the dress out to fix it I wanted to see if I could make a video of the steps I took to alter it and make it less weird.  I also recorded making matching headbands from the scraps which I will post later. I hope this is helpful or at least gives you ideas. 

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Materials                     Cost

Dress- hand me down     0.00

Thread- already had            0.00

Elastic- from out grown pajamas 0.00

Total Cost

                              0.00