Alterations
In the tradition of projects, these three alteration projects took up last Thursday. It was so fun to sew again. I really haven’t made much of anything for so long.
I just altered three pre-made finds.
The first is a plaid summer dress from my sister. This is part of the maternity clothes collection that was passed to me! Yahoo! Only one problem, I am the tallest girl in the family, by 3 inches, to my tallest sister. Noelle who sent me this is 5’5″, so I really needed an extra 5 inches of fabric, in order to move around with out exposing myself. So here is what I did:
I added some scrap fabric I had to the bottom, but then it didn’t look finished, so I added a band around the upper waist. I am really excited for this now! I think it looks so summery!
Front and Back (it is so much harder than you think to take pictures of something you are wearing…)
I hope you can see the ruffling I added. It is hard to tell with the black knit, what is going on.
And I just had to add the picture of Kitty checking out the handy work! She is so cute and fluffy!
Lastly, I wanted to make some maternity pants, that didn’t have a waistband that was tight- meaning no elastic at all!! I am so anti-waistbands right no I can’t even tell you. I went to the local Salvation army and bought a pair of jeans (on a 50% off day- so $3.50, score!) They fit my legs and thighs, then I just sort of experimented with finishing the new knit waist band.
Next time I won’t cut off the back waistband, I am not sure why I decided to do it this time, but live, do, and learn.
First, I pulled them on and pinned around the curvature of my new belly.
I cut off the top of the pants along that curve.
I then cut a band for the back, and sewed the sides together, and folded the bad side in and pinned them to the outside of the cut pants, like so:
When I was done sewing the pined area on, this is what I had:
And with a shirt pulled low over it, you can’t even tell!
I might try this again…. later.
Cassity Kmetzsch started Remodelaholic after graduating from Utah State University with a degree in Interior Design. Remodelaholic is the place to share her love for knocking out walls, and building everything back up again to not only add function but beauty to her home. Together with her husband Justin, they have remodeled 6 homes and are working on a seventh. She is a mother of four amazing girls. Making a house a home is her favorite hobby.
