Midieval Sham to Holiday Glam Dress!

Phew! This dress was a long way in the making!

Do you remember a little (long) while ago when I had the Towel-Head Dress Challenge? Well, I just finished one! Aren't you proud of me??

There's no winner for this dress, as nobody suggested what I ended up doing. (But you can still make suggestions for the other dresses! Click the link above and comment!!)

So I started with this forest green number.

Semi-midieval?

My first step was to make it slightly more fitted at the waist.

Turn it inside out, pin it and sew!

And then came the CHOP!

But a very artistic chop, no?

This is one of those blogs where I really didn't take enough pictures for all the steps I made. Don't worry - you'll still get the idea. :)
So instead of hemming the new bottom to my dress, I used my burn tool to singe the edges. No more fraying going on there!

My  next step was to deal with that green stripey guy.

I pinned the hems together so the fabric placement wouldn't be lost, then picked out the seams!

So then I took a length of sheer curtain material I'd been given, and draped it around the dress, pinning to the seams.

The dress is still inside out here, btw :)

It's hard to show what I did next, but basically I put the white material in front of the green triangle, repinning the green behind the white as I went, and sewed it all together.

So now the green is like a modesty panel behind the sheer white. Makes sense?

I used my burn tool on the white to cut the extra off, and to remove the obvious "I was a curtain" hem that was on there. 

Then I stitched the white to the seams of the dress!

So I only sewed on the seam there, so no stitches would show through on the skirt.

Lots of back-stitching in a little area - so almost more like a tack.

And then it was time to tackle those sleeves!

More burn-tool action!

Lastly, I decided the front needed a little design to really finish this off.

Cut carefully!

And that was it! Tadah!

We even had snow for the occasion!

I love the asymetrical draping of the white under-skirt!

And the back goes up in a V - like a flower!

Check out those poinsettias! Don't you want to wear this to your next holiday party?

One Towel-Head dress down . . . Three to go! Pop over to the Towel-Head Challenge post and give you suggestions! (There may or may not be cookies involved if you do . . . ;)

Thank you for reading! Mwa!

Towel-head Dress Challenge!

A little while ago, we received a package via USPS that said CHOCOLATE on the outside.

It was a pretty big box to be filled with chocolate - my small crock-pot would've had room to slosh around inside that box.

I was excited. 

But then I realized, this probably isn't really chocolate. (I suppressed the tears.) But then I realized, what else would somebody send me in a box this size?

DRESS DONATIONS!

Woohooooo!

You may recognize that dress on the far left, and remember what I just did with it :)

 In case I haven't made it clear, pretty much all the refashions you see here are done with donated items, because I'm not just refashioning for refashions sake (or for my own closet's sake), but to sell the refashioned items for charity!

But what about those four other dresses?

I started trying them on, and while they all basically fit me, I began to realize that they're all kind of the same dress, with slight variations.

The Pink Gauzey Towel-Head Dress

The Black Drop-Waist Towel-Head Dress

The Green Stripe Towel-Head Dress

The Shiny Periwinkle Towel-Head Dress

So here's where I need YOUR help! I want to refashion each of these dresses into something every-day wearable, and I want each one to be different! What should I do?

Comment here or on Facebook!

If I use your idea, not only will you be credited, I'll send you a special HopeCycle prize! (There may or may not be cookies involved.)

But seriously, guys . . . . .

these dresses need help.

Save the Towel-Heads!