Queen Bee Halloween

 

Welcome Halloween 2020! This is always one of my favorite times of the year! Making my own Halloween costume is so much fun!

This year I will be making this LBD into a Queen Bee costume!

I found the wings as well as the antenna headband at Dollar Tree!

I got lucky enough to find this perfect crown at my local grocery store!

I removed the wings from the antenna headband and removed the gold crown from its headband. I slid the crown onto the antenna headband 

Then I used some gold glitter fabric paint to add more flair to the wings! You can never have enough glitter, right?

I removed the loops that held the ribbon in place and I removed the ribbon as well.

The tiers of the dress were too long for what I needed, so I trimmed those. This is the aftermath.

I added 3 stripes of yellow tulle onto the front and stitched them to the sides of the dress.

I continued to cut different lengths of black and yellow tulle, then pinned them underneath the sheer tier fabric of the skirt part of the dress.

Bring on those trick or treaters! Buzz Buzz!

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Refashioning, crafting and upscaling!!!

Check out my stash of refashions on my blog!

diy little black dress from thrifted pants

 To sew this basic little black dress I used thrifted black pants . T

he fabric is a mix of lycra and polyester. 

It's perfect combination if your dress have to be close to body  and comfy to wear . 

It's totally basic part of wardrobe so you can style it on million ways and 

wear with sporty or elegant shoes  and always look perfect .

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

and more tutorial photos on my blog .

A Clasic White Shirt

 Hello Refashion Co-op. How are you doing? I hope you are having a beautiful fall. I did not have a white button-down shirt in my wardrobe so when my husband said he didn't want this shirt anymore I knew I would refashion it for myself. A white shirt would go with anything, I needed it. (I wanted it.)

This shirt is great but it is too big and long on me.

I made the sleeves and the body shorter and more narrow.  I removed the cuffs and made the sleeves 3/4 length.

I reattached the cuffs and made box pleats in the sleeves.

 

The shirt fits great now. It looks like MY shirt and not my husband's shirt. The sleeves are my favorite part. 

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

diy belt bag from thrifted jeans

 

To sew this belt bag I used big thrifted jeans in lovely navy blue color. In my earlier videos I showed how to install jeans button and stiffen bags in easy and pretty way . I made also pattern for this fanny pack so sewing it will be superb easy. 

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

and more tutorial photos on my blog .

The Belt Bag

 Hello Refashion Co-op. I hope you are well and happily sewing something fabulous. My latest project was a belt bag made of suede. 

The original suede vest made me like a cowboy in the old west. It matched this belt exactly and that gave me the idea. 

I cut out my bag pieces and stitched them together. 

The suede was easy to work with and put together. 

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

no leftovers , wrap skirt

 

Every time I have the possibility I try to use whole or as much as I can fabric I have and don't leave leftovers. Zero or less waste idea ;-). After sewing the shirring top I still had plenty of great fabric in lovely color and pattern ,it was perfect amount to sew complementary wrap skirt to shirred top. It's one of my easiest and quickest refashion .

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

and more tutorial photos on my blog .

diy off shoulder shirred top with sleeves from skirt

 

I found my inspiration for this shirred top with sleeves on Assos. I really like the shirring idea as it can change non elastic fabric into very fitting. To sew this top I used thrifted large skirt in pretty dotted pattern. The fabric was 100 % non elastic so it was perfect candidate for shirring 

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

and more tutorial photos on my blog .