Old Dress is New Again!

I had asked my friend Kim for suggestions on how to fix my dress disaster and after I decided to go to Washington for my cousin's wedding I figured that I would just take the dress with me and have her help me in person. That's exactly what I did!

After the middle picture was taken I took the collar off and took the dress in in the sleeves and on the sides. So it looked better but not as good as it does in the bottom picture.

I still need to make a 2" sash to be the belt but otherwise it's done.

Before

After & Before

Semi-Final After
(Just imagine the white around the waist 1" wider)

Old Dress, New Dress

I made this dress in high school and I decided that since it doesn't fit anymore, I would take the fabric and make a new dress out of it... So I did. :)

The original dress.

Me wearing the dress at EFY

Again me wearing the dress at EFY

I followed this pattern and this is how it turned out:

It looks better on the hanger.

It's doing a weird bubble thing at the neckline and it has a bit of a moo moo feel to it.

It still needs some work/tailoring but otherwise it's done. I'm not totally happy with the way it looks on me but in general I think it looks alright. I am happy with the length and the way the sleeves look. The neckline is higher than I was expecting so I'm going to do some adjusting there which should also fix the bubble that's going on. I need more definition in the waist but I'm not sure how I'm going to do that. I'm thinking of some sort of a white band or a scarf that ties to cinch it in at the waist. A scarf would be easier but I'm not sure how it would look. The skirt has too much volume so I'm going to take it in at the sides to fix that.

So what do you think? Any suggestions? Kim?