TUTORIAL | How to Refashion a Blouse Into a Pencil Dress

Monday, September 15, 2014

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Everybody loves a great pencil dress, which is why I decided to refashion my never-worn-in-two years cami from J.Crew and create something I would more readily grab from my closet. Using a dress from my Refashion Challenge post as inspiration to recycle my old clothes, I created this dress by utilizing some left-over fabric from The Soo dress design in my 2012 Mid-Summer Collection.  Even though it's really simple, I think it's a dress that will be super versatile, and since I was using materials I already had, it didn't cost me a dime. Score.

how to refashion a blouse into a sheath dress via Kristina J blog tutorial 

what you need
  • Blouse with side zipper.
  • 1/2 inch bias tap
  • Two yards fabric for skirt
  • 14 inch zipper
  • Pattern in your size with general silhouette of sketches below. I used McCalls 5927, which is out of print, but available on amazon.com.


 what you do
1.  Cut out skirt portion of pattern onto a fabric of your choice and assemble by instructions.

how to refashion a blouse into a sheath dress via Kristina J blog

2.   Enclose raw edge of top of skirt with bias tape and top-stitch to attach and finish.

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3.   Pin skirt to natural waistline of blouse and top-stitch 1/4 inch below bias tape. Leaving one inch free to fold under at zipper

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4.   Fold raw edge of skirt under at side seam even with zipper and pin.

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5.   Top stitch 1/4 inch from zipper edge to finish. DONE.

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3 comments:

  1. you look beautiful with the dress .. maybe you should look very young ... your tutorial is very nice i like thank you for sharing that hopefully you can share new things about fashion..
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  2. very nice!!! great idea!

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  3. Great idea! I wish I was creative like this!

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