The long and short of it....

I was so bummed when I put one of my daughters monogrammed dresses on her from this fall only to find out that she's out grown it! The sleeves were too short and it was definitely not long enough to be considered a dress anymore. So I decided to do a little altering....I turned the long sleeves I. To short sleeves. Now she can wear them as tops with some capris or shorts this summer!! Yay for making the most out of a wardrobe!!

I followed a couple tutorials to help guide me thru this. I did change a few things up though. I added two layers or fabric on each flutter sleeve on the black dress to make it more "puffy." And on the other two dresses, instead of making a new hemmed cuff for the bottom of the sleeve, I just cut the original cuff off of the long sleeve and reattached it after I cut the sleeve to the the length I wanted.

Flutter sleeve tutorial
Cuffed Short Sleeve tutorial

BEFORE: Long Sleeves

 AFTER: Short!

A CLOSE UP of what the two dresses look like with the cuffs

 FLUTTER SLEEVES!