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yo dudes! haven't posted in here in about a thousand years, but here's the latest:





right. well a tutorial is sort of circumstantial in this case:

i happened to have an old straight-cut ankle-length dress that was pretty boring. it has a hot pink stretchy base fabric with black see-through overlay. the top you see to the dress in the picture is its original top, which was reasonably cute. it was the incredibly lame bottom of the dress that needed help.

1. cut dress at mid thigh, straight across horizontally.
2. to create a sort of foundational layer, i re-sewed the severed bottom to the back of the dress, using a fold-and-stich-sort-of-technique i have no name for but looks like this:

2.5 i cut the bottom of it so it didn't drag the floor - don't hem!
3. i then gathered up all the pink/black/see-through-black/black tool fabric i had, and pretty much just attached it at random. like so (peeled some back so you can see):

4. one of the most important parts was the side gathering, which i did by turning the dress inside out and doing the fold-stitch thing:


and so there you go.