Apologies for the absence, have had a lot of personal issues to deal with and also been doing some soul searching, but first, I have been doing a bit of re-purposing for CADS in between this.

A couple of months ago me and my friend had a clothes swap to get rid of stuff we didn’t wear anymore. I got some nice pieces and also some things I liked but didn’t quite fit or I wanted to change a bit.

The first was a shirt dress that was a size too big and I wanted to use the tutorial on My Mama Made it to re-purpose a western style shirt so I shortned it and took it in using the tutorial, I tried to do the ruffles on the shirt but when I sewed it on silly me didn’t check the seams and I had actually sewed it on backwards so when I cut it off to re sew there wasnt enough fabric to ruffle with:( The bottom of the shirt is also too tight as I didn’t take into account my hips! But it’s all learning right? haha. I wore it today with a strappy top underneath and left it open and that works fine:)

The second was a dress that had some extra bit of fabric on the sides of the skirt, as you can see in the first picture I have streched it out and the second picture without it and then I didn’t like the colour too much so decided to use the emerald green dye I had as you can see in the last pic, not sure I like it so much though, looks a little bit like alien blotches. I may bleach it to get out the pattern too and then use a purple colour on it. Not sure yet but for now it is alien green!