A Flowered Hoop Dress: Curtain upcycle

This project began with a curtain and an idea: The curtain was a double panel ruffled curtain joined with a curtain rod pocket at the top.  The panels were about 30″ x 72″, with the double ruffle along the inner edge and the bottom.  I also had two ruffled curtain tie backs.  I paired this…

Petticoat Upcycle: Youtube DIY Companion Post

If you have been following along with my blog, you have seen a few posts along the way detailing how to make this sort of adjustable tie-waist skirt (Peasant Skirt/Petticoat Tutorial for “Cinderella” Sewers: Over the Bum Pad and Eggplant Bridesmaid Dress Post #3: A more Medieval Look)–so sorry, nothing new.   I recently posted a youtube tutorial and…

Cinderella Waltz Petticoats

If any of you read my first post about Cinderella, you know that I REALLY wanted to re-create a high-school-budget-version of the wonderfully over-the-top ball gowns found in the Broadway version of “Cinderella”.  The magical lifts and twirling skirts weave a wonderfully fanciful image of a Fairytale land ball–something every little girl would dream of attending.  Figuring…