Vintage Dress to Coat Refashion + how to replace sleeves

Hands up if you’ve had a project (or five) waiting in your stash for years?

I put the ingredients for this fab make together more than a few years ago and it even moved over from Berlin to Toronto with me, thankfully I’ve finally found the time to transform this frumpy frock from drab to fab!

Visit with Gladys and discover my simple Vintage Dress to Coat Refashion + how to replace sleeves and my simple trick for stitching on patches too!

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Those pretty in pink sleeves were the last remaining pieces of these 2 projects from 2013:

The Lurvly Lacy DIY T-shirt Upsizing Refashion

The lace front on this t-shirt upsizing tutorial and the lace pockets on this DIY cardigan:

Check out how to transform an over-the-head dress into a fab trench coat below:

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