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I have to say, I really like having a three-day weekend and the associated bit of time to do a little refashioning! Here's what I did yesterday. It started out as this thrifted floral piece. Anyone know when this look was trendy?
With some hemming, sleeve/shoulderpad removal, and taking in the sides, it became this:
More on my blog. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!
This jacket was bought at an op shop about 2 years ago and I think I paid $4. When it arrived in my wardrobe it was beige. I don't know why I thought that beige would suit me - it never has - but I wore it for about 18 months before remembering this!!! It is a cotton jacket so perfect for Autumn and Spring. I discovered Wardrobe Refashion about the time that I decided that this jacket could no longer be worn and should be sent back to the op shop. With some inspiration from Wardrobe Refashion I decided instead to dye it. I got some dye on sale, removed all the beige buttons and dyed it. It didn't turn out quite how I was hoping but I still like the colour. The stitching didn't take the colour, but I quite like that too. It took me quite some time to hunt down appropriate buttons. I had a few red ones in the right colour in my button stash, but not enough (the jacket has four big buttons and 8 small ones). I hunted many shops for the appropriate colour red buttons but couldn't find them, I finally decided that metal buttons would look alright, it still took awhile to find the right ones (I ultimately got these at Tessuti Chatswood). After sewing all the buttons on, removing several loose threads and doing a couple of other small fixes here is the result.
I'm rather pleased with the
final outcome. A fairly simple refashion - hardly counts as one, but I
will certainly get more a lot more use out of it now.
To see what else I've been up to visit my blog.
I made this last week without a pattern. Its based off of a little girls dress that I saw somewhere and can't find the link to.
From a thrifted men's flannel shirt:
Rumpus' room is on the small side, so I whipped up an over-door storage facility from old trousers and outgrown t-shirts etc to store some of his many and various treasures in.
More about it over on my blog ...
About three years ago, our local Wal-Mart was phasing out their fabric department. I got four yards of their pre-shirred fabric, meant for girls' sundresses, for $1.50 a yard. It's a lightweight, bouncy seersucker-like fabric, great for summer. Since I've been making tons of clothes for my very well-dressed daughter, I got the idea to use some of the two yards I have left to make a high-waisted skirt for myself instead.
Before:
I don't know where that funky (and barely visible in the picture) stain in the middle of the fabric came from, since I bought it new. Fortunately, a few weeks ago I crocheted some cotton flowers for another project and had one left over; it is the perfect pink/yellow/orange color combo to match the colors in this fabric, so it was a great cover-up.
After:
This is a perfect summer skirt, and for less than 20 minutes from start to finish, I can't beat that. I'm going to make another from the one remaining yard of the fabric I have left in my stash.
Happy Memorial Day weekend!
They can't all turn out how you expect I suppose.
This is by far not the worst thing I have ever made but the fit is so uncomfortable thats its unwearable.
I got this crazy skirt jacket set a week ago and I liked the print and its a nice light weight cotton so I thought a cute summer dress would be perfect for it.
Well I used Butterick 6610 which is a little backless summer dress but I tried to shortcut everything by just taking in the elastic skirt from the set and cutting the top of the dress from the jacket... not a good idea.
Because I didn't add any buttons the dress is practically impossible to get on over my shoulders... didn't see that one coming. And somehow my small bust is spilling over the sides (i've never had that problem before) and to top it off the darts didn't quite end up where the should have.
So just glancing at it, it doesn't look THAT bad but it is for sure going back to the redo pile where it came from. I will definitely try to make some adjustments on the pattern and try again.
Read more on my blog.
I have finally made myself some clothes instead of just making them for the kids.I made myself a skirt out of a doona cover I really liked, and refashioned one of my mums tops for myself. I took the sides in with my serger to make it a size 10 (originally size 16), and added some pink cuffs to match the ribbon on my skirt.
And of course with some scrap material, a mini me for my daughter.
You can check out more on my blog.
I had totally forgot about this refashion!! Which is surprising since this is my favorite one, so far.
Before:
After:
I posted how I did this on my blog. Go check it out!
On a whim, I decided last week to try and turn this skirt into this dress.
Read the story on my blog, http://petitmainsauvage.blogspot.com
