When I was 3 months pregnant last year, I saw this Honeycomb lace dress from Anthropologie and fell in love with it. I loved it so much that I didn’t want to wait until I had the baby and lost the weight, I wanted to wear it right then! So I got the dress in several sizes larger and wore it during my pregnancy, and planned to alter it later on after I had the baby, and add on the sleeves.
Before:
After:
I’m kicking myself for not taking a picture of how the dress looked after I lost the pregnancy weight. But just imagine it baggy and sleeveless.
I altered the sides and with the extra fabric from cutting the sides, I made the sleeves. The sleeve tutorial can be found here, and how to alter the sides can be found here.
What you’ll need:
- An oversized dress
- Matching thread
- Scissors
- Sewing machine or needle
Directions:
Sleeve tutorial: here
Altering the sides tutorial here
Estimated time: 1 hour
Budget: almost nothing
Skill level: beginner
This dress is beautiful! You make some amazing things lady! I would love to have you link it up to my Feature Friday Link Palooza!
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Danielle @ Blissful & Domestic
Creating Beautiful on Less
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I love the dress both ways! You are beautiful with the little baby bump! Plus it's so nice to be able to enjoy a piece after the baby!
Hi dear
Oh great, this way you can use that wonderful dress in both times 🙂
xoxo
Another brilliant clothing makeover! Such a good idea for maternity wear – just buy beautiful dresses that you love and take them in afterwards – why didn't I think of that? I just wore awful maternity clothes and my hubbies jogging bottoms for the last 3 months because I didn't want to spend lots of money on clothes I wouldn't wear afterwards.
Very good idea! I love those little sleeves!
That is a cute dress. So cool that you can sew and wear the dress after having the baby.
You have mad skills!
amazing – im severely lacking this skill
I love it! It's such a cute little dress now.
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What a lovely dress. Beautiful pics too. Hope to see you Friday for the Anything Goes linky.
I LOVE THIS DRESS! One day I will learn how to sew and your the inspiration for that goal with all your adorable dressed and tutorials! 🙂
That's amazing! Thank you so much for sharing on the Thursday Blog Hop!
Wow! this is simply stunning! I am pinning because this looks like it is done by a pro and I need all the help I can get!! 🙂
xox, Crystelle
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