Maternity wedding dress to fabulous party frock - and purses!

[milliebug]

This was completed awhile back, in April, as you can tell from the cherry blossoms in the "after" picture, but I just located a "before" picture, so here we are.

My friends bought me this maternity wedding dress at some clearance outlet as a joke before my wedding. Here's one of them modeling, with the aid of a pillow:

I loved the fabric (silk dupioni) and neckline so much that I considered having it altered and actually wearing it for my wedding. In the end, I decided against it. But I dyed it and altered it to wear to one of their weddings, exactly one year after mine:


The fabric lost some of its sheen in the dyeing process, but I was still pretty happy with the results!

edited to add:
I can't believe I forgot to add this! I used the fabric cut from the bottom of the dress, and a shawl that came with it, to make purses for those friends. Here's one:

Many thanks to stacysews for her tutorial!

[sweetdandies]

What a great transformation! It looks great on you!

[violentjayne]

wow who'd have known it was even the same dress... aewsome recon !

[CapturingLife]

That dress is awesome!  Nice job!  That's definitely a big transformation.    I love the color you dyed it, as well. 

[Scary Teri]

what a difference! that looks just awesome!

[milliebug]

Thanks, guys!

[shayneblate08]

Cute idea, it looks very nice. Did you use RIT?

[milliebug]

Cute idea, it looks very nice. Did you use RIT?

No, I ordered supplies from http://dharmatrading.com/. I found the site, and customer service, really helpful in determining what I needed. I probably would've gone the RIT route had it not been silk.

[closetsuperhero]

wow... absolutely beautiful transformation... i LOVE the bag

[jadepearl]

Absolutely beautiful!!!