Tutorial [Dress Repurposing]

Some of you may have seen my tutorial on dress repurposing at Blue Cricket Design a while back.

But for those of you who missed it, here it is:

I have several dresses in my closet that I love [at least in theory].
But I never wear them because they are either too fancy for everyday use,
Or they've become too short,
Or they have a busted zipper.

The latter 2 reasons is what prompted me to repurpose the following dress into cute [and wearable] skirt:


And it was so easy!
You can do it too.

Materials Needed:

• A dress that you want to recycle
  
• Scissors
  
• Pins
  
• Zipper [I used a 7 inch Polyester zipper]
  
• Sewing Machine
  
• Thread
  

First, I cut off the top half of the dress.

I figured out how long I would like the skirt to be in the end,
and cut the dress about an inch above that:


I cut straight through that wretched zipper
[Hindsight note: don't use your good fabric scissors!]
So it was easy to rip the rest of the zipper right out:


Then, I pinned in a shorter zipper [I used a 7 inch one]:


And I sewed the zipper into the dress skirt.

The only thing left to do was hem the top.

Fold over the excess at the top
[folded mine about 3/4 inch]
And pin it:


Sew around the waist:


And voila!
My broken-zippered dress is now a cute, summery [and wearable] skirt:


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