'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