Shop my closet for shirts.

Shop my closet for shirts. #85-96  of my Back to School Re-fashions.

CHALLENGES:

• Four years ago, I self-challenged to buy no clothes or fabric. I shop my closet and the re-fashion and fabric stash.
• At the beginning of summer vacation, I self-challenged to mend, alter, change buttons on 100 items. 96 "Light Re-fashions" are back in the Back to School rotation. 
• Four more items and I will start on "Full-on Re-fashions" 

  

BEFORE:  11 shirts from the closet that needed small tweaks.

WORK INCLUDED:

• Change out from factory standard buttons. I have thousands of buttons in stash from a store close-out.
• Remove collars and bulky pockets on some shirts.
• Seam down facings.
• Release darts for a bit of movement.
• Remove worn lace from earlier re-fashions.

Small hole in back yolk

Earlier refashion added lace to cuff and hem.
Cuff lace was a bit drab.

From the button stash.

Buttons from stash.

Remove collar
to wear as topper.

Shop my closet for Chicos.

Shop my closet for Chicos. #73-84  of my Back to School Re-fashions.

CHALLENGE: Four years ago, I self-challenged to buy no clothes or fabric. I challenged to shop my closet and re-fashion and fabric stash. In four years, I have bought our home-town university t-shirts and only fabrics to finish out re-fashions. AND…. Chico's knit tops thrifted from another teacher.  

BEFORE:  11 thrifted Chico's knit tops. Most had tiny holes in the tummy area. Some had overlarge low neck lines.

WORK INCLUDED:

• Hand mend tiny holes in 9 shirts.
• Machine stitch shoulder seams to raise neckline on 3 shirts.

Most had tiny pin-holes in the tummy area.
Easy to hand mend.

Three shirts had low necklines.
Run a seam in the shoulder to raise neckline 1"

how to sew reversible top from 2 too large blouses

 

 How do you feel about Tomb Raider games and movies ?

I must say I'm big fan of those !  

That's why  I had such great fun with making this  top  and styling it as Lara Croft. 💓

The best is you can wear it everyday as you want not only for cosplay conventions 😉

Whole process how to do it you can see on my channel sparrow refashion 

and more tutorial photos on my blog .

Rag Rug from old t-shirts

 

I used a bunch of old t-shirts from GoodWill to make a giant rug!

Here’s a video I made about this project.

https://youtu.be/acHsx84GhAs

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One Brown Mom

Jean Jacket Makeover

 

Last year I downsized my body, this year I’m down sizing my clothes!  This jean jacket has gone from a size 22 to a size 12/14.

This project is idea for a beginner.  It’s mostly just cutting off the parts that are too big!

I cut out the back panel and replaced it with black tshirt fabric.

The waistband was cut from an old pair of pants.

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One Brown Mom

how to make corset top from XXL black jeans

 

Too big jeans it's no problem you can easily reuse and refashion them in million ways. I chose to make corset top from mine black ones. In previous wideo I showed how to make pattern for this corset. So today will be be only short video how to use this pattern and sew your own denim corset.  

Whole process how to do it you can see on my channel sparrow refashion 

and more tutorial photos on my blog .

Shop my closet for back to school pants

Shop my closet for back to school pants. #57-72  in Back to School Re-fashions.

BEFORE:  16 summer weight pants and capris from my closet and stash. I need these in the back to the classroom rotation. They are perfect when Texas is still 100+ degrees.

WORK INCLUDED:

• re-hem, remove pockets to reduce bulk, mend holes, replace worn elastic.
• re-cut over-sized pants with a one-seam pattern: shown in pink jeans posted several years ago.
• replace waist bands with t-shirt bands when resizing pants.

Re-sized pants often got
new t-shirt knit waist bands

Originally posted several years ago.

Copycat Plaid Skirt (and More)

 

When I saw this skirt on Instagram last week I KNEW that I had to have it!  It was $98 plus shipped!  I knew that I could make a LOT of cloths for $98 so I decided to see if I could make it for less than $10.  In the end it cost me about $4 in materials.

I wasn’t sure how many old shirts I’d need so I bought 8 from Goodwill.  My plaid purchase included shirts and old lounge pants in red, grey and black.

It was pretty easy to make a quilt from the shirts and sew a simple skirt.  The original version had too much fabric to be comfortable for me.

With a bit of tailoring, I made the skirt less blousy and added a pocket.

After the skirt was complete I found that I had a LOT of scraps left.  Here are the projects that I made from the scraps:

Not to shabby for an $8 investment!!!

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recycling bed sheet to ruffle skirt

 

Cotton sheet can be awesome material for upcycling and I don't mean halloween ghost costume ... in this case . 

In my previous post I showed how I tie dye few fabrics, one of them was this sheet.

 I choosed blue, pink and  yellow ,lovely combination which every time gives  unique pattern and design. 

After that from ready dyed fabric   I sew circle , reversible ,peplum skirt.  

Whole process how to do it you can see on my channel sparrow refashion 

and more tutorial photos on my blog .

Corona Formalwear

 Hello Refashion Co-op. How are you? I had been saving this fancy pink dress for a fancy anniversary dinner. Covid-19 changed those plans. So what could I do with this fancy dress?

 

I made a huge change in the length of the dress. I thought shorter would be more casual.

 

I did not "hem" it. I melted it! I used the base of the flame to carefully melt the edge of the nylon fabric. It made the skirt lighter than a traditional hem. I tested the fabric first to see if it would burst into flames. I had fire extinguisher and also had  good ventilation. It wasn't a "safe" or "proper" way to alter a piece of clothing. 

If you ever try this I am not responsible for any fires and/or destruction you cause.

 I wore the dress with a simple white t-shirt and sneakers to make it more casual. I got Hawaiian shave ice. It was delicious!

 

Thanks for reading along, for more pictures and details go to  I Can Work With That.