The Lazy Crafter

I've been away for awhile... A long while. Lots has happened (creatively, and in life.)

1. I opened my Etsy shop (BriannasRose)
2. I got married.
3. I moved.
4. I've added some skills to my creating.
5. I've come up with a whole bunch more things that I want to make!

Let's get started!

Ooooo Jessica McClintock dress from a few decades back...

 This came from a thrift store for 
about $4.00. The bodice was actually really great with boning, and a zipper that worked in the back. It also fit perfectly. 

The problems with this dress included, but weren't limited to: 

1. The black skirt underneath had a 8" slit up the back. You do the math on where that would hit me.

2. That bow.

3. That white over skirt was poofy; WITH NETTING. It was pretty gross.

4. It's a fishtail skirt.

5. The white satin was wrinkled beyond almost all possibility of repair, not that it was really worth saving...

I took the skirt(s) off. It was terrible. So many layers!!!! I also kept the zipper in the back in place. I took a skirt with fabulous pleats, took it in to fit the bodice, and stitched the zipper into the back. Add one red satin scarf that has been hiding in my wardrobe forever, and voila! I am going to be wearing this with a lot of different belts to give it different looks.

A Lady's Top-Hat

I really like top-hats, but it was so boring.

 Netting, some trim, and lots of feathers! I've started another one, and I'm trying to convince myself to use more colors, but I love the black.

Vintage Wedding Dress

The before dress was pretty, but I couldn't move. At all. The sleeves and neck were so tight, I had no option, but to cut them out! I loved the button detail, and all the lace, but... well... It's a vintage wedding gown, and I wanna wear it!

So I cut them off, and finished all the edges. I just followed the natural line that the lining created (ha-ha) Then I added temporary straps because it needed them to stay up. It still looked like a wedding dress, and that really limits your wearing options, so...
 

 











  




I put in in a dye pot of teal. The dress was homemade, so I could only guess what it was made of. Thankfully, I had some material from what I cut off the dress to run some test dyes. I was teetering between bright orange, and this color. I went with teal because I have two other orange dresses. The color came out amazing! The lining turned robin's egg blue, and the lace has a more greenish hue.

 I added straps to tie because I don't always have someone to button me

 into it, and fixed straps would be very hard to deal with. The ribbon 

was an afterthought, and matched completely by accident. Now I can 

wear this to weddings, and no one will know what it used to be :)

Facinator

This used to be... yep, a sleeve from a bridesmaid's dress. I put it on a headband, and it scrunched over to the side like this on its own. There will be more experiments like this. I am going to be taking a lot of dresses apart, and I have to do something with the sleeves... They could be really fantastic clutches too. Stay tuned for that.

Classic bridesmaids dress (see 1980's) REDO!

Before.

There were two more matching bows on the back.

After!

We should only have one focal point per dress. Not seven.

$5 Chair (+$4 for the redo materials)

The $5 chair!

Back

Close up of the fabric. Check out that mauve stuff peeking through the plaid. Not as scratchy as the other stuff but still...

Mauve original fabric?

Loose joints need...

GLUE!

Newly stained

The finished chair! The new cover is a [was] a tablecloth.

 It's comfy too.