Hello. I am so excited to introduce my new upcyling project today. yay!
It is always a challenge to upcyle something old into something new but when it turns out right, it is super thrilling.
This time , I also made a sewing vid. if you are interested in the sewing process, please check the vid out under this blog.
Also you can find it on my youtube/ Insta @rena_sewsolo
I bought this dress like 20years ago and I only wore it once. It was in good condition, but i didn’t want to donate it since the dress has some sentimental value. So I had to think hard about how to turn it into something new which I might actually wear a lot.
It had some room around the waist and the length was enough to play around.
so, I decided to cut the middle and make it into a co-ords set.
I turned the old dress into a set with a crop top & a mini skirt and took the set for my summer vacation. This is very thin knit but maybe a bit hot for the Portuguese summer. 😅 I am sure it will be just right for UK summer though. 😉
I needed a 3cm width black elastic band and a metal open end zipper for the top.
Added the elastic band at the front & the metal zipper at the center back.
and added the elastic band at the inside of the waist of the skirt.
Before upcycling, you need to check if your clothes are actually possible to do this or not.
My dress has enough seam allowance to remove the zipper and so on. So it was easy to decide to do this.
I am so happy to have a new look from an old dress. I can wear it as a set or separate with jeans or other mix & match.
As I said, you can check out the sewing process in detail from the below vid.
Please let me know if you have any questions . Happy sewing to all!
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