Today’s DIY project came about completely by accident. LITERALLY! At 10:00pm, I began working frantically to create a new dress for February’s birthstone – Amethyst. I am trying to create a new dress each month for my Etsy shop – using that month’s birthstone as the poster color. Well, I’ve been thinking all day about what I was going to do…simple neckline, slight a-line, fun, flirty ruffley thing on the bottom. Well….let’s just say things didn’t go as planned. And certainly, the dress looked WAY better in my head than in real life. I suppose that little “frantically” part might have played some role.
As I began sewing and serging, I just kept making error after error after error, until finally, there wasn’t even a hint of what the original neckline looked like. AAARGH. By then, it was 10:45pm – what’s a girl to do???
Make Pajamas!
So, I decided to turn the entire piece into a strategically haphazard night gown! I serged the edges of the neckline and armholes, and then I decreased the size of the ruffle at the bottom as I randomly placed the gathers around the bottom edge. Now, I completely admit that this is NEVER something I would sell or even discuss beyond tonight…but it has kept me on track with my DIY 365 challenge. I never said I was going to make something “fabulous” every day, I just said I was going to make something! Feel free to heckle….the best heckling comment by Saturday night, will win a set of napkins! Go ahead, I can take it!!!
I LOVE the color! And, like you, I love ruffles, so the bottom is A+. I wonder if you cut the top from the bottom, and sewed them back together with a pleated cumberbund (?) in between. Or, you could just make a belt to tie over, a think, pleated one! I think it would look just lovely!
*thick* oopsy!
Funny that you mention cumberbund, Angie! My hope for the dress was that it be kind of “rugged” on the neckline and armholes and then I was going to add a fun Obi belt to dress it back up…I think that’s sort of what you’re saying except to actually keep using the same dress….I’ve already slept in it, so I’m moving on to new purple fabric. Plus, when I woke up this morning, my daughter Ellie said (of me in the purple-humble-pie-nightgown) “wow mommy, you’re a princess!” That’s good enough for me!
Darling, the color is perfect. I love the neck line. Great job.
Its cute but, I want to win some napkins. My grandma has a nighty that looks like this….lol
That is what I meant! I think great minds think alike
It would look fab!
Hey!
So in need of homemade napkins though! 
You go girl!
New to the blog and just made my first purchase on your Etsy page..the Sneaker dress! Since I go by the golden rule of if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it at all, I’ll hold back the pj heckling.
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too cute to sleep in!! rock it with your obi one kanobi belt!!