Flip This Dress: Cat is Getting a Skirt

So many Cats!  A pal of mine, also named Cat, was gifted this lovely little vintage party dress, but felt she'd get more use out of it as a skirt (a girl after my own heart - I'll be blogging about a similar situation in tomorrow's DIY Thursday post).

After!:

(Before)

This was a fairly simple flip.  I chopped off the top (that's extremely colorful language for just using a pair of scissors to gently cut) about 2 1/2" above the waistline piping.  This was a really pretty detail that we wanted to keep .  I then serged the edge and folded down, stitching right above the piping.  I also swapped out the old zipper since it was old and not functioning as it should. I tacked on a hook above the zipper and ta-da! Skirt.

 

 

(how pretty is this embroidery?)

Cat, hope you love it!