Circle skirt & a happy bridesmaid

I had my daughter try on her "fixed" dress tonight and it looks a whole lot better on her now. A little more shape due to the alterations. I also bought some super sturdy double sided fusible interfacing today along with 4 red maxi locks. I serged the bottom of the navy circle skirt in red and then made a quick wide belt for it. Looks pretty cute. Hope to post pics from the unit celebration on Saturday.

Anchors and alterations

My oldest daughter is a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding this Saturday. Thankfully the chosen dress was inexpensive because they didn't have her size at JCPennys. She really needed a 2 but had to get a 6. She didn't really want to invest money in altering the dress so she asked if I would try. I hemmed it to mid-knee and then took in the zipperless side and the back seam. It turned out okay-not the best since this was a quick fix. I didn't take out seams, I just took them in quite a bit and tried to keep the original shape of the dress. I also finished my younger daughter's circle skirt for a 50"s Unit Celebration this Friday. It was minus a waistband and had no decoration. I made the anchor and then used embroidery floss to outline and make the twisted rope. Still have to connect the rope to the skirt, but that shouldn't take long. I am thinking about making her a tulle petticoat to fill it out. I bought 33 yards of 120 inch wide black netting from Fabric Mart for $15. I hope to make some tulle flowers with it as well for another project.

Here are the pics of the dynamic duo I couldn't get to post yesterday as well.