Thanks for the input! I'll probably end up trying one or both of those!

I bought these acid wash jeans, they were a black denim with a nearly white acid wash. The material is 79%cotton, 19%polyester, 2%elastane. I used two shades of Rit dye, 1/3 Wine and 2/3 Cherry red for a deep red kinda color, and used the washing machine method. After washing they were pink. So I dyed them again using just Cherry red and they're slightly more red but still pretty pink. Why aren't they red? Is it the material??

Thanks! My mom found it at a yard sale I believe. The trick with the zipper on this one is I sewed the back seam all the way up, then put the zipper in and then ripped the back seam where the zipper was put in. It doesn't work for everything, but sometimes it's a handy shortcut

I'm in love with this fabric and knew it needed to be a skirt!





The fabric was a little see-through so I lined the inside


 

Thanks! Yes I did this thing I read online where you sew interfacing onto the right side of the fabric and then flip it over and top stitch it... at least I think that's what it was trying to explain... I'm sure there's probably neater ways of doing it so you can't see the facing on the inside, but it got the job done!

Thanks!! Idk what they were for but they're a great way to get alot of fabric for cheap!

I loved the shape and fabric of this dress but felt like there was too much fabric going on up top but was nervous to ruin it! So after a little research on how to reconstruct it with hemming and interfacing I went for it.

I've been away for a long time so I'll try to post what I've been up to!
Had an event to go to and had nothing to wear so I decided to sew something up, using this big red jersey dress from a thrift store


And turned it into this!

Wow, it's gorgeous! Very retro. How on earth did you come up with the pattern?

I was going off inspiration from two dresses:


So it took careful observation of those, taking every single possible measurement of myself and dividing that into how many pieces I wanted with seam allowance around everything.... bit of fudging and adjustment and somehow it worked. As for the bustline, I kinda tried to trace this top I have which was hard because it's three pieces. Tried to hem it which was impossibly hard because it's curvy, forgot seam allowance on the back piece....etc. So after the hemming looked like crap I added black hem tape and it gave the desired effect.

love da dress
love da style - da hair,da coat ,da necklace ,da gloves
it all look really good together !
what's that da white line on da seam below da boobs?
is that fake pearls or something?

"Da" white line is a strand of diamond I added to detract from a sewing error, ha. See, I wish I had detail shots. It was very tedious to sew on because I had to hand stitch between each little diamond and *hope* it was straight.
Thanks everyone!