Wednesday, April 13, 2011

'You've been featured'..... #3

Today, I'm featuring Karima from Karimas crafts
Karima loves to craft and is very talented.... stop by her blog and say hi :) 

After seeing some of Karima's repurposed outfits I offered to do a feature post.  Karima wrote....
Thank you for offering to show one of my posts, you are the first to ask, so I am quite excited!  I would like it if you could show the post about the orange dress I made for my daughter. This is the link: http://www.karimascrafts.com/2011/03/girls-dress-made-from-ladies-top.html 

I really do love your blog, I love altering clothes and it is nice to see someone else do it. I believe my family think I am a bit crazy doing it!

 Here's how Karima turned a ladies strapless top into a girls summer dress....
Step 1: I measured my daughter's chest, then took in the side hem of the top accordingly, to make it slimmer. (I kept the scraps to make the bracelet).

Step 2: I cut of part of the long bottom frill. (I just cut this by freehand to make it unique.)

Step 3: Using half of the cut of bottom frill I then made two long straps.

Step 4: I added elastic into the long straps, to make them look ruffled and sewed them to the top of the top (now making it a dress!).

Step 5: I added some belt hoops with some of the spare material. (I sewed these into the side hems, by unpicking a small gap, placing them inside, and then sewing over the gap and the belt hoops)

Step 6: With the remaining half of the frill, I managed to make a belt for the dress.

Step 7: With part of the top frill (which I had removed to make the dress slimmer) I made a stretchy arm bracelet.

Well done Karima... looks beautiful!
If you would like to be featured please email mummysdress@hotmail.com.

After three big days at work, I'm looking forward to having the day off tomorrow.
Hopefully it's a beautiful sunny day, so I can go for a walk here...
 Here's a few more photos from Sunday....
Love Nikki xx

5 comments:

Karima said...

A Great Big Thank You to you. I Love how you have shown my post. I am so pleased with it. I would love to return the favour, as I think your work is brilliant! Karima from www.karimascrafts.com
and
www.karimasblogs.blogspot.com

Julie Harward said...

That is wonderful...so cute and such a good idea here. Love that beach scene, I want to go there! ;D

Karima said...

Hi, as another thank you for your post today, I have given you a mention on my other blog today. See at www.karimasblogs.blogspot.com

I hope to hear from you soon about me returning the favour and doing a feature about your blog!

Thanks,Karima
www.karimascrafts.com
and
www.karimasblogs.blogspot.com

Hannah said...

cute! I love your daughters heart sunglasses! I had a pair (hence the name of my blog) then they got stolen :(

Renee said...

Hi Nikki!

Thanks for the heads up re the Retro Mummy giveaway...tbh I don't even remember entering it, but looking at the prize I would definitely would have been interested in entering. Fingers crossed that I get the lucky email through ;)

Was so sad (and scared! for you and your kids!!) to hear about your other blog. Some people out there are just hideous....and hearing that it has happened to someone I "know" is making me re-think the content/privacy on my blog.

Loving your tutorial - more on how you do your great stuff would be much appreciated :D

R

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