Three new looks from one thrift store dress.
Start with this Little House on the Wrinkled Prairie Dress :
Let’s make that into three new looks.
This particular thrift store dress gave me the perfect opportunity to try out a peplum.
And there you have it!
A new peplum shirt or pair it with the skirt for the top of a peplum dress.
Oops, there goes my photographer experimenting again…
He says, “Hi”, by the way…..
Now onto the paperbag waist skirt tutorial:
Determine how long you’d like your skirt and cut the extra length off from the top. That way you can use the existing hem.
Be sure to leave a two inch opening to thread your elastic.
Then sew the two inch opening closed.
Here’s your new summer skirt.
Happy Fourth of July!!!!
Be safe!
Beth
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once again…….clever!
Paula
Thank you for all of your encouraging comments, Paula!
Happy Independence Day!
Beth
I came to like your post and saw that you had our blog listed in your side bar. Thanks a bunch! (I still don’t know why the button wouldn’t show up.)
I’m so glad you reminded me. I’ll go back and try it again.
Love this! Great idea 🙂
Thank you! I have a blast doing this!
Beth
This is terrific! I really love the shirt especially.
Thanks so much!
I particularly like the peplum blouse. It fits well and looks great on you. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you Mother Deer!
I’ve been wanting to try a peplum for awhile now, I wasn’t sure how it would look on me.
Happy Day After Independence Day!
Beth
Will you please come and teach me to sew? That’s one crafty thing I can’t seem to wrap my brain around! You are so very clever! LOVE it!
I would LOVE to teach you how to sew! I wish we were neighbors!!!!
Beth
Me too! We would totally barter for services!!
Now you’re talkin” “)
Awesome! I love them all, you have such a good eye for possibilities. Me, I would have seen it as a find as is, for a pioneer costume.Your tutorials are excellent.
Thank you, Jenny! The fun factor just increases the more I do this and I swear I can hear the clothes at the thrift store talking to me now, telling me what they want to be made into for their next life. Weird! 🙂
Beth
Loving your blog and wish I had the talent to create clothes like you do:) Have a Beautiful Day!
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying it. That makes it much more fun for me, too!
Beautiful Day wishes back to you!!!
Beth
Love that top!
Thank you!
You have such a creative eye! I would have just passed by that dress, but you took it an made it something new and refreshing. I love the look with the skirt and red belt. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! I thought the red belt was kind of fun with the shirt. too.
Happy Friday!
Beth
I love all your refashioning tutorials. Your results are great, yet they seem within reach of a basic sewer. But where did you sew to “stitch down pleats” for the peplum top?
Thanks for your kind comments. I just folded them flat, then pinned and stitched along the bottom hem line. I hope that helps. If not, be sure and let me know and I’ll try to explain it more clearly.
Beth
I just found you. I love it here. But what I really love is this Peplum top! I like the skirt too, But oh how I love this top. And I will be following you. Thank you so much… I will be doing this soon.
Welcome to the fun world of refashioning and sewing!!!
Love that peplum top the best!!
Thank you Kathi!