So here's my (short) post about my recent sewing 'projects'. :D There are two things that I've modified lately: a skirt, and a headbow! Both were pretty simple adjustments, but lead to rather dramatically different results!
The skirt, originally, was a floor-length basic black Aristocrat-style skirt. Too long, but could perfectly fit a petticoat! So I brought it home from savers with the plot to ruin a perfectly good Aristocrat skirt by shortening it. :D (I forgot to take pictures of the before and during stages! Sorry!) I originally JUST wanted to shorten it, so I left a little room at the bottom (or at least what I thought was a little!) and sewed it up.
When I put it on, though, it was still ~4in to long!! LOL. Well... at least it wasn't 4" too short! xD So I thought I'd gather up the edges and ruffle it all the way around. Well.. I've never attempted ruffles before (to frightened to try) so I sewed it gathered up at just the seams to start. after ewing the third seam, I had a realization: It looked GREAT just gathered in selected spots! So I did that and left it like that. End result:
Which is now one of my favorite skirts lol. So elegant.. and so simple :)
The headbow I modified was even easy lol! I didn't even SEW anything.. I just used some embellishing glue for part of it. ;) Here's what it was (sorry, fuzzy pics ahead):
A cute headbow on it's own, but a bit lacking in creativity! So I took a regular red hair bow, plied the heart pendant off another clip, and glued the heart pendant to the small bow.
Bing! Snazzy! Then I simply took the little bow and clipped it on the bigger one through the center loop, like so:
Lovely, right? (I typically clip it on straight though lol!) And the best thing is that it's so versatile! It could be two different headbows and a cute clip-on bow :D And being as thrift-conscious as this loli is, versitality is a wonderful thing.
Anyways, that's all for now! I wanted to post this topic before my recent outfits because I wear that skirt a bunch, and I wanted to give you all a point of reference when I say 'handmade' etc. BUT next post will absolutely be about outfits!! I also ~may~ get n a topic about comments I've recently received, but my memory isn't wonderful, so we'll see. Maybe I'll just highlight the ones I get most often? Hmmm~
Good night~!
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