Hand Me Ups!

 Was once Daniel's now its MINE! 

Yes I raided my sons closet! No not really, I bought the shirt with the intentions of giving it to him but soon realized that the neck would not fit over his head. So I was going to give it to Good Will and the strangest thing happened I tried it on and it fit except the gagging collar. 

 Before with the shirt that donated the dark blue strips.

 Notice how itty bitty the neck is, it was a real choker.

 I cut the neck nice and wide.

 I cut five 2" strips of the dark blue and sewed them onto the light blue shirt 1/4" apart folding the top of the strips into the inside of the neck. once they were secure I folded the edge of the neck in and zig zagged it to finish up the neck edge.

Next time I think I will try narrower strips.

Simple Changes

You will have to excuse me but I don't have a way of taking picture of my self wearing the things that I work on. I want one of those timer cameras or may be a camera with a remote switch I can press when I'm ready.

So, my photos go like this: I try it on, I take it off of myself, place it on the dress form, take a picture of it on dress form, take it off dress form, fix it or work on it, I once agian try it onmy self, take it off agian, place it on dress form yet agian, take another picture and so on.

 This dress makes me trip. It is way too long for me and I don't think that I will be wearing any stiletos here in the near future. It was made for a person over 5'5" and that person is no where near my height so one ruffled layer will have to go. Notice how it drags the floor, the dress form is exactly my height and you can not see the legs of the dress form stand.

 Also the sides did not hold my girls in and you could see from the side what was suposed to be hiding. I added some elastic to the sides to fix that problem.

 Better I'd say. It doesn't just lay on the floor. You can see the legs of the stand its on.

This grazes the top of my feet nicely, now to figure out what to do with the layer that came off.