Dress to 2-Piece

 Hello Readers. I loved this plaid dress. I grabbed it as a clothes swap and when I go home, it was too big. That's OK, I can work with this.

Dress to 2-piece.  

This dress had so many possibilities. The colors, the ruffle, the straps... Let me show you. 

 

I decided to take the dress apart. You can see the waist seam, it was sewn to last forever. It was THICK!

 

I unpicked all those stitches. It was frustrating and it took a while but it was worth it. 

 

When I was done I had the top, the skirt and the lining. 

 

The top has pretty straps but I needed a couple of them to finish the hemline of the top. I cut the straps off the back of the top. I set them aside. 

 

I pulled the straps from the front to the back. I pinned the straps in place and stitched them in place. I also took the back of the top in to make it smaller. I can't find a picture of that so you just have to take my word for it.

 

I sewed the 2 back straps together into a long belt and sewed it along the bottom of the shirt. I put the ends in front so I could tie them in front. 

 

I sewed elastic around the skirt. When I made the casing for the elastic it made the skirt shorter. It made a full twirly skirt. 

 

In the end, I had a top and skirt I could wear together or separately. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.