Dress Refashion

Bought this dress 5 days before my brother-in-law's wedding.

I had bought another dress months before that I was just not happy with. So I took one last desperate trip to the thrift shop to see if I could find something. I found this long evening gown that was black (which didn't thrill me since the dress I had already was boring black) but after closer inspection I found that this dress had some potential for color.

*Sorry for the poor quality of the photos and the lack of photos. Didn't really decide to blog about this until half-way through and was too rushed to remember pictures along the way.

I decided I would cut the dress to the knee.  I then decided to take the (underneath) colored fabric I cut off the dress and make it into a belt/sash.

After that, I realized I could cut the black fabric a couple inches shorter to expose the underneath fabric!

Was excited to find color under the black fabric! Not just any color - but purple! The accent color of the upcoming wedding!

I used my "rolled hem" presser foot on my sewing machine for the two hems.  If you've never tried this presser foot before, do so!  It is great!  I've used it years ago, but I have now discovered a new love for this foot :)

Great video tutorial for rolled hem foot here

I was SO thrilled with the way it turned out!  I really liked that it had purple to compliment the colors in the wedding (since I was partly involved by reading during the ceremony) and it matched perfectly with the Best Man and the Flower Girl! (My Hubby and Daughter :)

My post about the wedding here

For those of you interested...
I spent $11.24 on this dress at the thrift shop (on 25% off day)