Me-Made-May 2015 - days 27/28

The fixing process:

Last time I showed you this nightmare inducing disaster.

Let me list the problems. Bad fit (waist, back, boobs), overwhelmingly busy print, huge sleeves, fussy neckline. Overall a highly unflattering dress. I could never have worn it in this state. So.

I started by putting it on inside out and Mr M pinned me until I had shape! I did a quick movement test...

...then stitched new seams!

I also hacked off the sleeves to make 3/4 length ones:

I folded it like this so that the sleeve hem would still be even around my arm. To make sure both sleeves matched, I then did this:

Lined up and cut!

By that point it looked like this (I hadn't finished the sleeve ends - that's a TV watching job for tonight).

Apologies for the trousers.

Much better, no?! Just needs that neck sorting!!

I just unpicked the gathered seam, hacked off the offending ruffles and then resewed it. 

I'm not going to claim that this is a nice dress. Mr M says that the fabric itself was a bad choice. I don't get it right all the time! However, I do think that this is a vast improvement. I could now wear this, and I think I've developed my skills quite a bit by first making it and then fixing it!!

I fixed it while wearing this cute jersey top, which I bravely made using a burdastyle pattern. I always seem to go wrong using burdastyle, and this was no exception. The shoulders slide off my shoulders. But I have a clever fix which I'll be trying out in the next few days...

Not the most flattering of photos, but Mr M says it has 'cool persepctive'. Yes, it makes me look enormous, but at least it is cool. Hmm.

Emily