Little Black Scraps

I was feeling particularly thifty today and didn't even start with a dress, just my scrap pile.

Thanks to a little elastic and some creative pinning I put together this dinner dress.

To see it all, come check out my blog!

Give the Cat a Name

Blue Bubble Dress Refash

I have to admit I actually paid full price for this vintage 1980s dress, a whopping $8! But that is a drastic increase from my usual .50cent steals! 

 

The husband and I have been very busy going to dental hygiene continuing education classes lately, which means I have been in need of some new outfits to wear! Our class was on Friday and with Memorial Day on Monday I was short on refashion time. This refash only required 2 things: 1. Removal of the sleeves and 2. Shortened length. Which means I would only need a little bit of time to pull this off!

  Step 1: Remove sleeves.

  Finally rid of those ugly sleeves and mini shoulder pads. Again, I never understood the point of the mini shoulder pad. One of life's mysteries I suppose..

  After I removed the sleeves I folded over the outer material over the lining to finish the armholes.

  Sewing my arholes!

  Step 2. Shortening the length. I took about 10 inches off the bottom of the dress and folded it over to make a tiny hem.

After our dental hygiene class we stopped by the Blue Water Bridge (Goes across to Canada) for a quick picture! It was pretty wiiiindy!

Enjoyed lunch and a beer at Junction Bouy on the St. Clair River :) Yum! Took this picture just before it started to rain and we had to move tables :(

Happy Refashioning!!!
 

Check out stash of refashions on my blog: therefashstash.wordpress.com

T Neck to Tee

When I first bought this piece ($3.99 from the thrift store, it's Land's End) I thought I would make a clingy skirt from it. But while trying to come up with ways to style it, I decided a shirt would be more serviceable.

Before picture: a turtle neck (it CHOKES me) with long sleeves. I like the yellow, I like the stripes, I like the fabric. To make it useful and comfortable, I simply chopped off the neck and sleeves. I made old-school neck and sleeve hems; turn over twice, no rough edges.

And I decided to stitch by hand. It's a cold, rainy day (51 F) and it's pleasant to cuddle with the dog and sew.

Here I am in my new 3/4 sleeve, scoop neck tee!

And there's more: I have enough fabric left from the turtle neck and the sleeves to make a pair of super soft stretchy underpants!

Dress into skirt

Hi !

This is a very simply refashion !
I love to do this, because is a nice way to have new skirts and it's very very simple to do.

Just cut and put an elastic waistband...that's all !

For visit me ...It's here.

XOXO.

DIY TUTORIAL RESIZING JAKCET

In sh you can easily find real pearls if it comes to good quality fabric,but it's far worse if it comes to right sizes, of course you can wear oversized, but how many oversized you can have in your wardrobe. I have definitely too many. Resizing it's a must for me and I think for many others as well.

Here's my little tutorial how to resize jacket  KLIK .


Jacket before :-)

 Good quality fabric ^_^ and ... too big size for me

 After about  more or less 2 hours

 and on me , very 80's, lol

Love,

With a Twist

I did a couple of straightforward alterations (strap shortening, shelf bra removal) on this dress, but the most profound improvement was the simplest. I just twisted the skirt a few inches, and I instantly had a better-fitting, way more interesting garment. Not really a refashion, I suppose, but I was so surprised at how much difference such a small and easy change can make that I just had to share it with you!

Before

After

The alteration details and the obligatory backstory can be found on my blog, The Unfashionista!

The 2 Cut Men's Shirt Refashion

Cut off the collar just above the collar stand... cut off the cuffs just above the cuff. Done - roll the sleeves & tie the ends. Cool & comfy.

Go to my blog for a diagram. www.craftreincarnated.blogspot.com

Not a clothing refashion, but a SEWING refashion!!

This isn't exactly a clothing refashion, but thread is required often to make refashions. And since we sew a lot, we end up with lots of empty spools.

Which we save to make these:

You can do this too!  Just visit Skirt Fixation for all the details and the FREE printable for your empty thread spools!

From unflattering to much loved!

I bought this little top many years ago in the sales for very little money but never wore it. I liked the  color and quality is very good. The neckline was rather strange with something like a large buttonhole at the front and never felt comfortable. To make it more user friendly I removed the collar, cut out the neckline a bit more and cut the collar as interfacing. Now I wear it back to front and love it!  

Shirt made bigger

I was walking home when a bag of clothes left out on the street for rubbish caught my eye.

Feeling only a little shame I started to rummage and took out a pink checked shirt by Uniqlo which looked barely worn.

The size was extra small so I was intending only to use the fabric, but once I'd washed it and tried it on I was amazed to find that the arms and shoulders were a perfect fit - so I decided to keep it as a wearable garment.

I couldn't fasten all the buttons so here comes an embarrassing poor quality before picture.

I was going to make it bigger by adding a panel down the centre back and as the length was generous, there was just enough fabric cut some off to use for such a panel.

Although I tried to match the stripes up as best as possible, it gets more rubbish towards the thinner top end.  I ended up using all the fabric I had available from the shortening, there was literally a tiny scrap left.

Finished shirt:

OK so this is never going to be a best shirt but it's turned out wearable enough, in fact this bag of clothes was sitting outside a restaurant and I couldn't resist wearing the refashioned version on my next trip there.  I suppose I was hoping the waitress would recognise it but I received no comments, apart from my husband who my mildly shocked to find I was wearing something found in a bin.

I learned from this refashion that a really good fitting sleeve goes right into the armpit so the shirt doesn't ride up when you lift your arms up.

Memorial Day Dress

Hello, Re-fashion Co-Op! This is my first post on this site and I'm really excited to be sharing my refashions with so many other awesome refashionistas :) I've been blogging at Accidental Seamstress for 2 years now and I'm officially hooked on DIY fashion. My name is Laura and I'd like to share my "Memorial Day Dress" with you first.

I got this awesomely ugly 90s dress for only .99 cents. That's my "rule." I never go over $1 when I'm scouting out refashions.

This just needed a few tweeks to make it "cookout" worthy for the holiday. I put it on my homemade dress form and took it in. I also raised the shoulders a little bit, and I seam ripped off those horrible side ties and decorative buttons.

Next, I did a bit of cutting...

I finished that raw bottom hem with my favorite hem of all time: A rolled hem.

Easy peasy. And, this one is easily a new favorite :) If you'd like to see a more detailed description of what I did, feel free to see my original post.

Happy Refashioning!