A little background...last fall I went to a Chez Ami party (children's trunk show, aka, highly over-priced, but extremely cute kids clothes). I had skipped the 3 before I had been invited to, so decided I had to go and make a purchase for my friend. I found a precious little pink and white striped dress (comfy cotton playdress). With shipping, $40. It.killed.me (I am so cheap you know!). I bought a 3T to get two years wear out of it and looked on ebay to see that this brand sells for about 40% of what you spend on it. "An investment" I told Chris. :) Ha! (PS, husband was not amused). Anyway, in late December one of the buttons fell off so I took the button and dress up to my work room to sew it back on. Company came in town that weekend and it got put away...on top of a lamp...lamp got turned on...HUGE holes in dress from burning. Check out the extent of the damage (not shown are the huge brown spots...horrible, I was SO mad at myself!).
It's bad, right? Well, I was about to throw the dress away (because the holes were too high up to just cut it off into a shirt). Then, my afore mentioned moment of brilliance. I hand appliqued "flowers", then added ribbon and buttons.
I can not get this picture to be horizontal (and that's how it was taken! ugh!)
It's not my favorite dress in the world, but it beats throwing it away. What do you think?
13 comments:
BRILLIANCE, indeed!!
I love it! great idea!! :)
i love the shirt- i think it almost looks better than before :) PLUS- nobody will have a shirt like anna kate! :)
I like the dress even better than before!!!
color me impressed
Very cute, Janelle! I love the way it turned out. So glad you didn't have to just throw it away. Very creative fix!
I think it looks better than before!
Also - I wanted to add, that I reused several of Jonas's boy clothes for Rachel this past year - I purchased iron on applique's and added flowers/butterflies/girly things to the boy color clothing she inherited. It turned out great and got me through the winter!
I'm still mad at how much it cost...
but am always impressed with your sewin skilz.
And yes the dress is way cuter than it ever was pre burning
Wow, it absolutely looks MORE adorable than it did pre-burning! Seriously Janelle?! You are amazing!
Jenny
Girlfriend, you never cese to amaze me....
Genius! You're so creative:)
Janelle, You really are SO creative and talented. I am uber impressed!
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