Button Up Ruffle Down Refashion

Hi! I absolutely love remaking clothes and showing how to style the new creations into modern clothes. I always find button up shirts and am sometimes at a loss for cool things to turn them into. I can across a striped dress with a huge ruffle for the collar and then knew what I wanted to do to this shirt! 

I cut the sleeves off and used them to make a giant ruffle for the collar of this shirt.

I was a little concerned the ruffle might be too large but once it was paired with a cardigan, I was in love! You can check out my step by step process here .

Thanks in advance for any advice/ feedback!

Happy sewing!

Katie

Another t-shirt dress

Back when it was still hot outside, I made this t-shirt dress that I neglected to post. So here it is. I started with two-shirts - a lovely, well-fitting ladies shirt and a huge blue men's t-shirt.

I loved the ruched sleeves of the gray shirt, but the hole-y bottom hem had to go. I made a skirt out of the men's shirt by cutting it out like so.

I sewed it along the side seams into more of an a-line shape. I sewed it with right sides together until I got to about 3 inches from the top edge. Then I flipped it right-side out and sewed the rest of the seam with the wrong sides together. This made it so that I could fold down the top few inches and have a waist-band of sorts on the dress. I joined the skirt to the shirt like so.

And here is how it looks with the waistband folded down.

Pretty comfy. Thanks for reading.  

-Amy

Too small dress now fits

Cute, but too small dress.

To fit into the dress, the zipper is not zipped and the skirt fabric is bunched up around my waist. And I do need to hold my hand there, or something would show.

- I cut at strip of fabric out from the dress: At the top of the skirt part and 9 cm (3½ inches) lower. (see blogpost HERE).
- I used the cut off pieces as gussets on the sides of the bodice (I left the zipper as is, so it is slightly to the front of the dress, but its not visible).
- Since the skirt got wider downwards, the new wider bodice and the 9 cm shorter skirt fit together. So all I had to do was to sew the to dress parts (and the lining) back together.

What I like best about this refashion is, that you cannot / can hardly see, that anything has been done to the dress, other than it fits now and is a bit shorter.

Refashioned Tank Top to Maxi Dress

Hello! As a new contributor to Refashion Co-op, I'm pumped to share for the first time one of my refashion projects! I write over at Fashionably Employed primarily about personal style at work, and I sneak in some fun and simple DIY refashions, many of which I can wear to the office. Although I'm not sure this maxi dress could be worn to every office, I ended up giving it to my sister who is a teacher as I felt that, paired with a cardigan, it was perfect for her work setting. 

My project began as an old tank top that needed some TLC and some soft jersey knit fabric that turned my tank top in a perfect maxi dress. Head on over to my blog for more details and instructions on the project. Hope you enjoy!

Red Refashioning!

Hello All!
How time flies... feels like a whole season has passed since I was last here... although I realise some of you will still be lucky enough to have good weather for SOME time yet!!

Sew...

I'm sharing a little red dress that I've worn for work, that's always been a bit tight around the arms, and I've often wondered about the two small windows the designers saw fit to add...

I mean, why stop at two..?

(and that's a small mic, if you're wondering what the black thing is on the neckline... should've taken a pic without it!!)

This has taken me a good while to write up, and in that time another Refashion Co-Op-ista has also made something with cut-outs in the neckline, a beautiful creation she wore to a wedding... And it made me panic, like 'Ahhh! What if she thinks I've COPIED her?!!' But then I thought... even if that WAS the case, it would be flattery, non? ;) Anyway, if you're reading this, I'm sorry if it looks mighty similar to something you've seen recently - it's just sewing serendipity! :D

And onto the 'After'...

If you'd like to read more about the not-so-swift-process that was me applying the bias binding to the holes, check out the full post here! And thank-you, in advance, for any advice/ feedback you can offer :)

Gema x

BEFORE & AFTER

Mixed Up Maxi Dress: REHASHED

This 1970s maxi dress had a lot going for it but it did need my help. That thick polyester is not ok as a maxi dress even in the dead of Winter as far as I'm concerned! So with a few small changes I turned it into this!

Please visit my blog at Love Street Salvage to see why I prefer to use the word "rehashed" and to see before pics of what I am currently working on!

-Kristal

Best of Both Worlds

I started this refashion with two dresses and decided to merge them into one.

I ripped the skirt portion off the pale, chiffonzy one and sewed it onto the denim top along the waistline.

To see the whole transformation, feel free to check out my blog!

Give the Cat a Name

custo dino

This little sweater was a bit sad. I cut two Brachiosaurus in a skirt, and a Pteranodon in scrap fabric.

Séléné

la mare à bout de ficelle

Ban'anna'frip

Mexican embroidery revival

Hi all,

About 10 years ago I came back from a trip to Mexico with a wonderful embroidered blouse in my backpack. But the overall fabric was so unconfortable that I never got to wear it since then.

Well, after few months of sewing I felt like an attempt of recycling this embroidered yoke so I made a new blouse (made of a sweet mix of cotton and linen) and I overstitched the yoke. Here it is :

Hope you'll like it ! You'll find all the process and many pics on my blog.
Camille / Sunday Afternoon

Blue Havana Dress

I picked up this pretty blue rayon dress for $3. I love this border print but I'm a short and sweet kinda girl. So on to the first chop!

Getting the top to the right height.

Removing length from the skirt. Chopping off a good foot and a half or so.

My pup Alfie wanted to help with the picture taking

And my other pup Kiki wanted to help with the measuring.

Back to the dress! bringing up the bottom of the skirt to waist level brought the side slits up really high. Like Mid bum level... So had to unpick the slits and sew up the sides of the skirt. 

And Voila!

Thanks for looking! And happy refashioning! 

-Marisa

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An easy autumn-skirt re-do

Hallo Zusammen!

I know, it's been a while since my last post. I'm full into planning holidays so I don't have much time for any projects. 

But here's one I did some weeks ago and just got the time to take pictures. I think this is a perfect autumn-sunday-refashion. I hope you like it! :)

It's an easy one and I think some of you did something similar before, but I liked to share this beautiful colors with you. I hope you like it! :)

See the full tutorial here. 

Thanks und bis bald 

Nina

PS: If you like to watch my asian-holiday-experiences than follow me via Instagram.

Quick Fix

Check out this fantastic number!  I can't believe someone wanted to get rid of this!

I cut the straps out of their sheath and crossed them in the back to create keyhole neckline.  Cause this print is definitely worth giving another go-around!

For a step-by-step on the whole process, you're welcome to visit my blog!

Give the Cat a Name 

Bicycle transport bag from three IKEA bags

I wasn't sure if this fitted the description of the blog, but this is a bag, something wearable, and it is refashioned from other bags. So I guess it is okay, although it is a very different kind of bag.

In my city you can't bring bicycles with the citybuses. But sometimes my son would like to bring his bicycle. And you CAN bring bags..... huuuuge bags..... so I decided to make at bicycle transport bag for my son's bicycle.

My choice of fabric was three IKEA bags.

I deconstructed them, removed all the straps and then assembled them again in a new way. I can't really tell what I did, I just sort of went with it and improvised until it worked.

The finished bag filled with duvets to show its shape.

                                

Bag with bicycle inside.

Now, if I new the proper terms in English I would add some hippie sentence here about not letting "the system" hold you down ;-).

Petites transformations

J'avais besoin de tee-shirts longs pour dormir alors j'ai un peu bricolé ............
Voici le premier , je n'ai pas de photo avant mais je l'ai juste rallongé avec les jambes d'un pantalon

Puis j'en ai fait un second

J'en ai utilisé un troisième que j'ai oublié de prendre en photo, c'est le gris que j'ai intercalé entre ces deux-là.

Et voici le résultat :

Je serais bien au chaud sous la couette cette hiver !!! Lol

Bises, à bientôt,

Elisa Elisa

Upcycled Dress to Shirt

For this project, I used the circle skirt of a well loved (but stained in the bodice) purple knit dress. I laid the circle skirt flat and cut the pattern pieces for my shirt out of it. I kept the original hem on the end of the sleeves and bottom of the shirt. The skirt was made of 4 panels, so I centered my pattern pieces on the seams between them to preserve that detail. Click here for more details, pictures and to explore other projects.

The rest of a previous refashion...finally!

So a while ago i posted about some little gifts and things i'd made before Christmas last year (seems like forever ago now!) including a jewellery case lined with fabric from this shirt:

 I used the sleeves from the shirt to make the jewellery case, but i had bigger plans for the main part. The shirt itself was a size or two too big as it originally was, but I was able to make use of the darts in the front (having unpicked the pocket) to make my final top more fitted. I used an existing top as a base for the pattern, though i left the length of the shirt as i found the black top a bit too short for some occasions.

 the end result:

I shirred the back to make if fit while still being stretchy and comfortable (and without having to do a lot of tailoring - essentially i'm lazy!) - i actually cut out the back panel, shirred it separately, and the attached it. I made the straps from long tubes cut from the back of the shirt (either side of the back panel). I did have to add an invisible press stud (snap fastening) hand-sewn inside the button placket between the top two buttons as the elasticated back made it gape otherwise, but with the press stud it's no longer a problem. One of my favourite bits is the ribbon detail across the top front, which i had to add to hide a small rip where i'd not been careful enough as i removed the pocket! But i managed to find some short pieces of ribbon which needed used up and just happened to almost exactly match the colours in the top. Worked out well in the end!

Thanks for reading :)