I love your vibed colour patterns they catch my eye,,i like vived paintings also..the vived colour ,know one will notice anything,,the mistake is only for you to know,,now one else will know the diferrence unless you mention it, love the pattern on the dress you made for your daughters Claires wedding

Sew a solid panel in the same type of fabric around the bottom that matches the dark blue in the pattern. It'll act like a border and also lengthen the dress.

"Sewing words". Linda was hiding out in her sewing room yesterday as the thunderstorms moved through the Miami Valley. She was completing a fabric book one of her "older" singing group gave her.
I find it interesting that "sewing" words & "woodworking" words can all be found in a common dictionary. Did you use these magic incantations in the completion of your project?

You can put a ruffle on the bottom.

You look great anyway!

Add a contrasting sheer panel to the bottom.

All look terrific!

I think they look great!

No way for us to tell how short short is as you did not get a picture of you in the blue dress. Would you mind, terribly, to model that lovely blue dress while you are seated, looking at the camera. It’s the only way we can give you a proper comment. Thank you so much.

Being a woodworker, and having many years of experience I do not cut things to short! I get out the board stretcher, an enhancement for the table saw. Now because I know you are laughing (I hope since I am not arrogant) I get the opportunity to figure out how to make the mistake an enhancement or in other words I get to start over. The other day I was cutting a front door for a home to heoght and missed the mark, since I was also making the jambs, the structure that holds the door, I was able to shorten the jambs and thus any notice that the door was short was circumvented. I got lucky!!

Brings to mind a phrase often heard in the wood working trades - “dammit! I’ve cut this board 3 times, and it’s still too short!”