Whitney's Prom Dress

It seems like all of my posts lately have had something to do wit my little sister.  (I better be getting the favorite sister of the year award. Hint! Hint!)

Last summer my sister bought this dress on sale because someone told her that she could put sleeves on the dress and that it would be easy to find material to match.  Even though a certain mom said that it was a bad idea and wasn't happy about the idea the dress was purchased.  After hours of searching for matching material, 2 girls realized that they're mom knew best.  Something had to be done with the dress though so I tore the top apart, took out all of the bustles, took beads off and then gathered, pinned, cut, spoke mean words...you get the picture.

I finally finished it and here's how it turned out.  I was pretty pleased with how it turned out.  Of course with a body and face like my sister's, you look good in just about anything.  (I stole these pictures from her blog because once again, I was a slacker and didn't get pictures taken myself.)

Top: I changed the angle of the pleats on the top and made sleeves that matched the pleats.  I put more beading up the sleeves.

Middle: She wanted it to be gathered across the front.  The dress had 2 seams going down the front of the dress so I had to gather the dress across the middle and then adjust the seams in the front so that they still went down the front and not down the side or the middle.  This was a pain in the butt.  It took me forever.

Sides:  I gathered the sides and put more beads down the sides and then this flower bead thingy on both sides.

Back: I cute the material to make the sleeves from the back of the dress.  I had just enough leftover to make some small bustles and then I put some sequins in the center of each bustle.  (It's kind of hard to tell in this picture.)

I also put some more netting in the dress to make it poof more.

 

There you go though.  I was so happy to have the dress out of my house.  Oh, I did make my mom hem the dress because my belly was huge and it wasn't fun crawling around on the ground while being 9 months pregnant.  Thanks mom for hemming.

So what do you think?  Does it look horribly homemade?