mmmmonday the second

mmm is totally whipping my ass in the best way.  it's truly a challenge to do a head-to-toe-me three days a week, especially when i realize a lot of my garments stay on a hanger because they have one little thing off about them. so to succeed i have to fix them.  and i'm not even doing any stunt sewing (much)... the fixes are turning out to be surprisingly quick, i just didn't have the patience desire to win vodka challenge to make me revisit them.

the purple people eater batwing dress was one of them, it's a shapeless box on.   took in the side seams, took 3" off the hem, and now it's my 80's dancer-at-rehearsal dress.  

you might recognize the leopard print... it used to be this cocktail dress.  the bodice was always too tight across the bust, flattening my girls, who need all the help they can get.  burdastyle, baby, why you gotta wrap them up like it's 1942?  i finally hacked it in half and inserted a new super cute two-toned zip from my sis in law.  the side seam of this jammy is now the front seam, and since it was a rectangle to begin with there was no need to mess with the hem.

finally there's the tribal print dress, my first head-to-toe from last week, which i fairly trumpeted about at work. this was sewn on my maniacal day, i traced around a forever 21 dress, et voila.  no, not as easy as the french phrase would lead you to believe.  more pics and backstory on that one to come, as i'll be parading the new makes from mmm in separate posts soon.

i likes to parade.