Easy Breezy Summer Shirt

I had this Michael Kors gauzy shirt for several years and haven't worn it. It is either too thin to wear in cooler weather and way too hot to wear in the summer. So, I just cut off the sleeves and inserted side slits for a more comfort for. Now I have a wearable, comfortable summer shirt : )

                       

Safari Animal Dress Makeover

This dress had me immediately. I just knew it had so much potential with that amazing fabric.

I cut off the purple sleeves, the pink trim on the bottom, and unstitched all of the trims around the edges (this part honestly took the longest). Then I hemmed up the bottom and the sleeves.

Ta da!

Side by side

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A Racy Refashion

I found this dress at a thrift store and I liked it.... BUT its not a dress I would wear. Im more of a flowy A-line dress wearer than a tight dress wearer. I knew I could solve this dilemma with a quick refashion. So I have set out to reduce the raciness of this garment.

Here it is in all its tight and ruffly glory:

After some simple alterations which you can read about and see more of here in my blog, I ended up with this much more useful shirt:

DIY TUTORIAL / OFF SHOULDER BLOUSE / SHOULDERLESS TOP

Shoulderless tops are now extremly fashionable. It's very truth but my  inspiration was Yen from game Witcher. Exactly one of her optional clothes KLIK.
I changed only colors and made it more wearable to our times. Making of this top isn't very easy but I tried to make this tutorial as easy as it can be.  

Shirt before:


there was a shirt now I have shoulderless top



 and on me 



Whole tutorial and much more photos on my blog.

Love,

Linen Look Skirt to Shorts

I found this incredibly soft linen blend skirt at a thrift store and bought it for one reason only: it was a cheap way to get linen fabric.

I had really been wanting a pair of linen shorts, so once I got the skirt home I pulled out a shorts pattern and got to work. It took an awful lot of careful cutting and folding for me to get every pattern piece cut out of the limited amount of fabric the skirt had to offer. Finally, every piece was cut out and I could sew the shorts together!

And sew the shorts together I did! Another cute, comfortable pair of shorts with good sized pockets (a very hard combination for me to find in ready made shorts), and they only cost me $3.50 to make (minus the cost of the pattern). You won't hear any complaints from me!

To find out more about these shorts, and the shirt I made to go with them, check out my original blog post.

Alyssa, The Sewing Goatherd 

Une tenue estivale

Pour compléter une jupe que j'ai faite à partir d'une robe (j'ai oublié de prendre la photo "avant") qui est celle-ci :

J'ai adapté une petite blouse en broderie blanche que j'avais en stock, car elle était vraiment trop grande .....

Je me suis servi pour cela d'un patron trouvé dans le Tendances couture n°9 modèle 32 afin de reprendre l'ampleur. Du coup j'ai fait les pinces devant et repris la largeur du dos et du devant afin qu'il soit plus cintré. J'ai posé un élastique à la taille pour le faire blouser un peu.

J'ai également changé les boutons par des boutons de mon stock argent et nacre, j'avais juste le compte.

Et voilà le corsage après ces quelques petites modifs :

Et voici la tenue complète :

Me voilà avec une petite tenue bord de mer .........

Si vous voulez en voir plus, c'est Ici

A très bientôt, bisous

Elisa Elisa

Little adjustments and a really little skirt

This shirt was a couple sizes too big for me, so I used a favorite pink shirt to figure our where sew my new seams.  Sometimes I trace my new seam lines with the kids markers or whatever I can find around the house.  But on this lucky day, I was able to find my chalk tailor which worked great on the black fabric.  I left the sleeves and length at the original length of the shirt because I liked the fit as it was.




The pants were brand new with tags from Ann Taylor, at least 75% off retail price. It was a great find!

AND they would have been perfect if I was four inches taller.



I brought them home and hemmed them up.  I took my time and did a good job (which I don't always on my little projects) and now I have an outfit that fits me just right.



I'm wondering how many of us have been inspired by Hofficoffi  to use scraps to make Barbie clothes!?!  I love that idea!

I used the hem from my pants to make a little black skirt for one of the Barbies hanging around my house. A little strip of Velcro attaches the skirt around her impossibly small waist.

Barbie is hanging out in our backyard, wearing her new little black skirt.

Thanks for the inspiration, refashion co-op!
Love,
Amy Jo at The Little Moments

All Doily-ed up

I love how hot this summer has been so far! I haven't had a nice hot summer for a while, but with saying that I had few warm tops to wear! I picked up this one thinking I would use it as supplementary fabric for another refashion, but I fell for the small collar and odd embroidery. I pretty much ripped all the seams besides where the neck attaches to the front. I attached the sleeves to the sides for more flow, and with adding a doily to the back created a light racer back look.

For more information and photos about this refashion you can take a gander at my blog post. As always till next time stay creative!

The Umpire Strikes Back!

I have always like black and white stripes, and used to wear them a lot when I was younger. However, recently, due to some teasing comments from my sons (see my blog), I have developed a "block" about sewing with/wearing them.
I still love those stripes (on other people), so when I was given a pile of unwanted clothes, I was happy, and sad, to see a striped blouse. It was a great style, with an open V-neck at the back. I tried it on, hoping I could get over my stigma, but nope!

Also, in the pile was an unworn black T-shirt. It was nice and long with a V-neck. What to do, what to do……??

That’s when I decided I could handle being a ref from behind!

I cut the sleeves off the T-shirt, and cut down the side and shoulder seams, separating the backs and fronts of each garment, but keeping the blouse collar intact. Luckily the shoulder and side seams were almost the same length, so just needed minor tweaks to match. 

I cut 2 strips from the back of the T-shirt, folded them over and serged onto the front armholes. Then I stitched blouse back and T-shirt front together. I just topstitched the collar onto the V-neck of the T-shirt.

It pulls on easily because the front is jersey, so no need for buttons.

Ghosts of Shoulder Pads Past

I swear every time I go into a second hand store I fall in love with a blazer/coat/blouse and it has sky high shoulder pads. I swear some can double as sleepwear...meaning the pillow is on your shoulder! I found this jacket a few weeks back and fell in love with the pattern! 

Look at these shoulders I am far from impressed, but with a change in the dress code at my workplace I am in need of a few blazers. I will fully admit that I was terrified to undertake this refashion, but I couldn't wear it as is so the risk was worth it.

I'm sorry I really should have moved my hair to give you a good side by side comparison, but I think you can tell that the shoulder on the left is very straight and the one on the right is sloped.

Here is another side by side attempt. Along with taking the shoulder pad out I took in the shoulder by pulling the shoulder and arm in and sewing it in a semicircle rather than the pointy elliptical that it was originally. 

Overall I am quite happy with this refashion! I definitely think it is far more wearable and modern now! If you would like to know more about this refashion please visit my blog post. I actually did the post as a three part shoulder pad eviction! As always till next time stay creative! 

Polka-Not to Ploka-Hot

I started with this polka dotted number. It was decent to begin with just needed some slight changes.

I didn't touch the length because it was already bordering on too short. I added elastic to the waistband to give it more of a shape. I had to take the sleeves off because they were an awkward length and it's hot here! 

The different pattern pieces are pockets!! I'm a sucker for dresses with pockets! 

Please ignore the tree stand it was right after christmas😂😬 

Thanks for looking and if you want to see more refashions and more step by step photos head on over to My blog

The Butterfly Dress

This dress was the next item that inspired me from my gifted bag of un-wanted clothing. I loved that it had a hood on it and was super light weight material. I decided the dress needed some darkness, so I also chose this black athletic top to alter. 

Then I got to work transforming..

Step #1

Parts of the hem on this dress were furling up on the bottom so I decided to use that to my advantage and sew the hem up giving it a more un-polished look.

Step #2

I cut off the bottom part of the dress from the top, and cut the black top in half under the bust. Then sewed them together keeping the original stitches from the dress. 

Step #3

The dress was very wide and had no shape whatsoever, so I took it in on the sides by a lot and gave it a bit of a curve to make it a little more shapely. 

Step #4

I cut off the sleeves by the elbow and gave them a hem with a double line stitch to match the original sleeve cuff. 

Step #5

I now needed to attach the hood. I cut the hood off of the dress with a one inch allowance. I wanted to keep the collar of the black top and the dress so I doubled up and sewed the hood collar right next to the black top collar. I thought this looked kinda cool. I wanted it to be different.

Step #6

The material of this dress is very clingy so I took another article of clothing from the bag. This long, tan colour top to attach to the inside as a slip.

(inside out with slip attached)

Step #7

I didn’t quite like how the dress attached to the shirt under the bust, so I made a strip of black material sewed into a tube to cover up where the two materials meet as to even out the line. This made a big difference. 

Since this dress is very casual I paired it with black tights and casual shoes. This is usually not my style but for some reason I felt inspired to take it this way.

-alyrocco-

Skirt to Shirt

This floral skirt had the most vibrant print. I couldn't pass it up!

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It didn't take much to turn this into a blouse-y summer shirt: I cut off the banded waist, cut slits for
arm holes, sewed in a neck line and finished all the raw edges.

In spite of my frown I really like it.

As Always, there's a full tutorial up on my blog if you'd like to see it :)

Happy Refashioning! ~Laura

The Two Dress Combo

Hello Refashion Co-op. I recently combined two dresses that didn't work for me into one dress that did. It was very simple. One dress was too small (The colored stripes.) and one dress was too plain(The solid black.). I'm sure looking at the pictures, it is clear what I did.

I cut the solid black dress along the seam it had at the waist. The best part of this dress is the super soft knit material.I cut the striped dress just under the zipper. The best part of this dress is at the bottom. Those colored bands are so cute.

I put them together. If you look closely, you can see the chalk marks where I was going to take the skirt part in just a bit. I wanted it to match the top in size. Some super easy sewing followed.

And Shazam! I had a new dress. 

Thanks for reading, now go make something fun for yourself.

I Can Work With That