Skirt-to-Dress Conversion #3: Spoopy

This one is also a Shirt-to-Dress Conversion, as well as technically being a Dress-to-Dress Conversion, since I used the skirt from a dress I made in 2015, which didn't even fit well then (and that was before the weight gain)

I knew I wanted to salvage the skirt somehow, and for a while the plan was to add an elastic waist.  Yeah, never did that.  But, when I decided to convert the other two skirts into dresses, I decided I'd do something similar with this, too.  And I had plenty of that haunted house print left, so of course I could use that for the bodice!

but...I also had this shirt, made from McCall's 7956 and that same haunted house cloth in 2016, and never worn--initially because it seemed so ridiculously voluminous, despite the six darts added to the back, and later  because of that weight gain (and not wanting to deal with picking out those six darts)

Well.  I called upon my stubbornness and dealt with those darts



And I only accidentally snipped a hole in the fabric once, so that was what determined where I cut the shirt to add the skirt

 I made an annoying mistake that I did not catch until after it was at a point where I did not want to deal with correcting it.  If you see it, I acknowledge it; if not, I won't point it out.

I had, I think, gone overboard, even for me, in the top stitching on this shirt, so I continued that by stitching above the new waistline seam.

I also recreated the top stitching under the sleeve, where I let the seam out so the cuffs wouldn't be so tight

 I'm assuming those old stitch lines will disappear in the wash.  If not, it's OK, no-one will ever be in a position to see them.

And I did find a piece of the same black cloth to use for the shiny new pockets!  With excessive top stitching.

I did not take close-up pictures of the stitch holes and stray threads left where the six back darts used to be--even if they don't wash away, I imagine I'll generally wear this during cardigan/jacket season, so, again, no-one will ever know.

(and we'll see if I get irritated enough to fix the error that I acknowledge but won't admit)