Easy breezy dress or Dobby the House Elf?

[AvtarRamKaur]

I made this dress out of a duvet cover. Does it look like it?? My dc say I look like a house elf....(only jokingly!)

It's lovely and recycling at its best. I think I need to learn how to sew.

That looks so good!

I had a duvet cover, pillow case and curtains made by my DM when I was small. Because she didn’t like waste I also had a party dress made out of the remnants of the same material. (Laid out on my bed I couldn’t find it.) That summer I discovered I also had a bikini made in the same stuff. Remnants seem to go on and on.

I really like your dress OP. And that you made another. And that there is enough for a belt. Just waiting for the bikini shot now.

Just waiting for the bikini shot now.

This reminds me of the 70s when this was definitely 'a thing'...

I'm eyeing up my rather nice tablecloth now...

My bed / bikini set was the 70s. Was it really a thing?

That sounds like a money making opportunity...

Down the charity shops for any duvet covers they have, turn them into two dresses, sell on ebay... Profit...

You look fab op. :)
And I'm.glad I'm.not the only one with crap slung on my bannister. ;)

I remember loads if craft part work magazines and TV shows for craft, seeing, knitting ... Who didn't have a homemade beach cover up made from 2 old bath towels (not as advanced as a bikini though!)

Cheap clothing and lack of skills seems to have killed off making your own clothes. I remember learning how to use patterns and sewing a rather fetching wrap-around skirt in domestic science class in school!

I have a Fatface dress which looks incredibly similar to yours. I do believe you would have spent £40-odd for that in a shop. Brilliant.

There is a very similar dress on a side advert appeared

And I'm.glad I'm.not the only one with crap slung on my bannister
Isn't that what they are made for? Towel drying, bra airing, clothes-that-can-be-worn-later-in-the-week, and of course stuff-I-can't-be-bothered-to-take-downstairs-just-yet.

Sewing our own clothes is a dying art, but fabric is terribly expensive (hence the duvet cover!) compared to off the rack clothes. These days I will often just modify charity shop finds and the like. When I lost weight I took in a denim jacket, which was quite tricky but fun. I had to pull it apart at all the seams and reposition bust darts and everything.

You look lovely

I thought this was some odd Halloween thread. Want to actually see someone dressed as dobby😅

Isn't that what they are made for? Towel drying, bra airing, clothes-that-can-be-worn-later-in-the-week, and of course stuff-I-can't-be-bothered-to-take-downstairs-just-yet

Not forgetting post wash duvet case storage.. lol..

There is a very similar dress on a side advert appeared

Thank you Yoda

Love it! And like it with the belt that's on it. I wouldn't make a matching belt

Looks fab!

Thank you Yoda

Sorry what does this mean ?

Easy-breezy! I love it, was expecting a big kaftan/tent, but looks really neat with the tie waist.

Oldraver

Yoda (a character in Star Wars) says things in an unusual order, such as "very hot I am" or (actually from one of the films) “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”

The "appeared" being at the end of your sentence just reminded me.