DIY: A Very Quick Refashion!

We've been experiencing some really horrid weather conditions lately.

 

This is my back deck.

Do you know how depressing it is to look out your back windows to see your grill, red cooler, and cute little bistro set reminding you of summer and sun completely covered in snow!?!

 

The answer is: Extremely depressing!

 

The weather has been super snowy for about 2 weeks now. I've pretty much been cooped up with the kids in the house that entire time, only going out twice. Once, to bring my kid to the dentist. And the other time was to go to the thrift store where I purchased this dress:

 

It's from Fashion Bug! I loved that store!

I immediately fell in love with the print on the fabric (I'll show you a close-up later!). It was only $0.25, so I barely inspected it as I threw it into my cart. You could imagine my surprise when I got home and tried it on to find out that it fit me perfectly! It just needed a little tweaking.

 

There were two parts to the dress that needed some attention:

 

The front of the dress was open to reveal more fabric.

 

I don't know if you can tell, but there are 10 brass/black buttons on the chest.

 

 First, I tackled those buttons...

 

Buttons on.

Buttons off!

 

Next, I pinned down those two flaps of fabric on the front of the dress.

Here's that close-up of the fabric I promised you!

And then I sewed each side down...

Nice view of my sewing machine!

And I guess that's it. That was a pretty easy refashion. I didn't even take my scissors out of my little basket of sewing/mending supplies. I wasn't expecting to be done so quickly and I had a few extra minutes, so I grabbed my iron to iron my semi-wrinkly dress.

Hi, little iron! Haven't seen you in a while! Lol...

I always forget what a little bit of ironing can do to a garment. My dress definitely benefitted from those few minutes of extra attention.

And here's my finished dress:

My camera is obviously in "blurry" mode...

You know, half the fun of doing these refashions is getting to style my article of clothing. I imagine the person who gave this frock away thought, "This dress is so dated!" Not anymore, I hope!!!

Hmm, there's a weird little light orb on my belly button from the flash.

There were 2 reasons that I fell in love with this pattern:

1. I don't have any winter dresses that aren't solid colors. Not that I'm complaining, but I definitely had a hole in my wardrobe begging to be filled with a "Winter Floral." ya know? 
2. It reminded me of something Angela or Rayanne would wear on my favorite '90's TV Show "My So-Called Life!!" Of course, they'd be wearing a flannel shirt over the dress instead of a cardigan and they probably would've paired it with some Doc Martens instead of suede booties, but I think you get my drift. It's an updated version of that!

 

Showing off the fact that the dress is all one piece now!

Now if only the snow would take a break for a day so I could go out and enjoy myself! I need my thrift fix! Plus I need more cute clothes to upcycle!

I always look like a creeper in my "before "pictures! Lol.