Tutorial: Make a dress bigger with a contrast stripe

Beth from The Renegade Seamstress shares a tutorial at eHow showing how you can make a dress bigger by adding a contrast stripe to the side. She adds the stripe to the body of the dress as well as to the inside of the arms. This works best with a knit dress that has simple lines. She also created a matching scarf out of the same fabric as the stripe to pull it all together.

Click below for her tutorial:

How to Make a Dress Bigger (with Pictures), by The Renegade Seamstress

[photo from The Renegade Seamstress]

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