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

House Blouse

One of the patterns in that recent gigantic grab bag'o'patterns was McCall's 7956, a 1982 Laura Ashley shirt and jumper pattern.  Now, the jumper...no, it's not a thing I would wear, but the shirt looked intriguing, so I chose a print that Laura Ashley would very probably not have chosen and got started