I'm almost ashamed as to how mouldy the DIY expert category of this blog has gotten. It's now past the stage of normal fridge mould and has now actually mutated into a living, breeding amoeba. But thankfully, a surprisingly free weekend has saved the category from becoming a thing of the forgotten past. I deliberated with this DIY project for a little while only because the raw material was a bit of a steal-y find. I started off with this Sportmax 100% woven silk shift dress with big pockets at the waist that I freakily found at The Shop for £10. The practical side of my brain was telling me not to tamper with the dress and to just let it be in its natural form.
However, then I came across a strange little rag doll in a charity shop that was made up of dozens of fabric patches, similar to those seen on my "effing ugly" H&M waistcoat. The two simply had to come together in a sort of Chloe SS07-inspired fusion. So it was bye bye ragdoll (it had scary eyes anyway...) and hello to an evening spent in front of watching the Bob Dylan doc, No Direction Home stitching these circular fabric flowers onto the neckline of the Sportmax shift.
Sunday morning and neckline is all fabric embellished but what to do about the length. I could have left it in its hard to work just below knee length. After all, there are days when I feel like wafting around in the manner of a child in Victorian night gown. Or I could have cut it short and gone for the straight forward short shift which would have REALLY been Chloe-esque.
No - I decided bubble hem with a slightly dropped waist was the way to go. Somehow looks a little less obvious girly and a bit more summer sporty? Hopefully this will have beaten off the amoeba.
