I was looking back at old photos of my first pieces I finished a couple years ago. When I came across the first dress I made, I was looking in my closet and yes, I still had it! After three years. Then still pondering in my closet I came across a pair of patch work jeans. I also found some unfinished pieces with my fabrics. I was really excited to still have these wonderful first projects I made.
The first dress I ever made was inspired from the Free People Lace Skater Dress With Daisy Trim. At the moment, I didn't want to pay that amount for the dress. I kept going onto the website and pondering at the dress to see if it would ever go on sale. Recently, after that, I was looking in my closet and I found a really old-fashion looking dress that I never wore. It had sleeves and a boxed neck line. The dress didn't fit me right and looked so awkward ( I was surprised I bought it in the first place). I took the dress apart, completely. I changed the neck to be a high scoop neckline and I took the back into a low V shape. I really liked the revealing waistline from the Free People dress I was inspired by to change the original dress I had. I made the top and bottom of the dress separately and added the lace over the fabric to match the different sets together into a dress. The revealing lace trim on the waist was connecting both the top and skirt. I was surprised on how it wasn't to difficult to pursue. I really enjoyed this being my first project. I love the dress! And I didn't even pay a fourth of the price. I made it my own and no one else will have the exact same dress as me. The fabric is a beautiful small daisy lace-like pattern. The waist line is stretchable with the skater dress effect. This was one of my favorite pieces.
The first dress I ever made was inspired from the Free People Lace Skater Dress With Daisy Trim. At the moment, I didn't want to pay that amount for the dress. I kept going onto the website and pondering at the dress to see if it would ever go on sale. Recently, after that, I was looking in my closet and I found a really old-fashion looking dress that I never wore. It had sleeves and a boxed neck line. The dress didn't fit me right and looked so awkward ( I was surprised I bought it in the first place). I took the dress apart, completely. I changed the neck to be a high scoop neckline and I took the back into a low V shape. I really liked the revealing waistline from the Free People dress I was inspired by to change the original dress I had. I made the top and bottom of the dress separately and added the lace over the fabric to match the different sets together into a dress. The revealing lace trim on the waist was connecting both the top and skirt. I was surprised on how it wasn't to difficult to pursue. I really enjoyed this being my first project. I love the dress! And I didn't even pay a fourth of the price. I made it my own and no one else will have the exact same dress as me. The fabric is a beautiful small daisy lace-like pattern. The waist line is stretchable with the skater dress effect. This was one of my favorite pieces.
Looking at more revamped pieces I aspired to finish... I did some patch work on a pair of jeans. I had an old, ripped up pair of jeans that were so ripped up it wasn't appropriate to wear in public. I didn't want to get rid of them because some of the rips on the jeans were so big and perfectly ripped I just needed to figure a way I could change them to be able to wear. I came across a recent trend I found out about, patch work. I've been coming across images of different jeans with patch work on them. I was thinking, I didn't want to have a pattern on the jeans because with the type of denim it was it wouldn't fit together. I was looking at the old scrap pieces of fabric I had and I found some old denim. I decided that would fit best with the ripped jeans. Multiple shades of denim patch-work. I really loved how it turned out and now I didn't waste a lovely pair of ripped jeans!
Pondering at more old works of mine... I came across a daisy crop top I made last year. The fabric was very difficult to sew with, but I managed. I bought the fabric at a local thrift store. It's a very vintage looking pattern. It was an easy idea, a crop top. but, since the fabric was almost like a stretchy velvet material I had to mostly hand sew the bottom part of the shirt. I wear the shirt in summer and it's a nice easy going top.