I was about to put it in the "donate" box, but my hubby stopped me. He told me not to get rid of that one. (Somehow, he is much more sentimental about objects than I am). So, I relented...I wouldn't get rid of it. However, I definitely couldn't wear it anymore - thanks to the baby for completely changing my body!
So, what could I do with this "must save" yet not-fitting dress? I had been reading/bookmarking a ton of blogs that repurpose clothes. I thought that maybe I could repurpose my dress into a dress for my little girl. Since I knew we were celebrating my daughter's birthday on Easter Sunday (and dedicating her at church too!), I knew she needed a really special dress, so this seemed like a great idea.
I bought a pattern (although I'd never sewn a dress before and had only read a pattern once...about 15 years ago). Since my dress had so much sentimental value, I decided to sew a practice dress on fabric I didn't care about. So, I bought some fabric and made the practice dress, which went really well (meaning I cut the fabric right on the first time and it only took me 3 times to get the zipper in.)
Since that went so well, I thought I'd dive into making the special dress. BUT, the pattern was way too big for the fabric in my dress. So, I thought I'd just cut off the skirt from my dress and sew it onto a top made with the pattern out of taffeta. After working out a few kinks (sewing the slit in the back, the lining of the skirt being too long in the back...etc), this is what I did. And I'm thrilled with the results! She looked so adorable in her celebration dress!
The matching hair flower (glued to a ribbon lined alligator clip and clipped onto a headband that I made) and the flowers on the dress were made with the leftover taffeta by following a tutorial found here. (Love this site and you'll see more of her tutorial inspired projects here soon!) However, I used pearl beads for the centers, which were sewed on instead of using hot glue.
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