Let me know if you have any other ideas for this dress...I'm thinking of making it into a blouse with a huge pussy bow. All ideas appreciated! 😘

Hello everyone, it’s been great catching up on what everyone has been making. I’ve been spending some time on mine over the weekend and am posting a video to show the before and after. As usual when it comes to sewing I have gone off on one and ended up making it more complicated than it needs to be 😂 but I’m pleased with the result. Just on the look out for a couple of little Pom Pom’s now 👀

I have this beautiful vintage sheepskin coat. It is so big & heavy .It must be very old, the shoulder pads were made out of horse hair & were hand stitched! The sleeves are way too big but I love the cuff detail. I want to make it wearable, I’m thinking bomber jacket shape? I have never worked with sheepskin before . I just don’t want to ruin it. Any ideas & advice would be most welcome 🙂

There's still some finishing touches to add but I love the twilly, I just need to work out how to style it past using it as a cumberbund (which I love). I need to take the skirt in at the waist, but love the potential. I bought the dress secondhand about a year ago, I adored the print but the dress turned up with a weird unexpected ballon shape, the neck and arms were too tight, and not the length I'd thought it was. A twilly seems like a small project but the idea of the twilly means you have to think about the bigger project which is brilliant.

So here is my conversion. I had this mesh top with trumpet or bell sleeves. I wanted to layer this top with a short sleeve or button down shirt. But that doesn’t work with the wide sleeves. I also never like when the sleeves slip up when I lift my arms. I love turtle necks. That’s what this mesh top is missing too. So I tightened the sleeves and with the leftover scraps I constructed a little twilly which can either work as tight scarf or a little accessory on my jeans to join top and bottom. Sorry for the bad lighting in my videos. I will work on that.