Christmas Tablecloth Skirts

Tablecloths on tables are downright dangerous with little kids around. I don't need tablecloths, but I do need cute Christmas skirts for my girls!

I made these skirts using the simplest kind of skirt pattern there is, the gathered skirt.

There is a full tutorial and more details here.

Note: You don't need to have twins to dress your kids up in identical clothes. I do it all the time and my girls are over 2 years apart and look NOTHING like each other :)

'reWorking the Workwear': #1 Chambray Dress

Hello hello! I'm Nay and I blog over at The Wardrobe Surgeon, a mostly refashioning blog with a little DIY pattern drafting on the side. This my first post here at Refashion Co-Op, very timely too as I've just began my first refashion series 'reWorking the Workwear' where I'm attempting to re-purpose all of my old work clothes into garments that I can wear, rather than having them wear an accumulating layer of dust!

So this week I started with two chambray shirts; one reasonably fitted and one jumbo sized-maternity shirt. After a bit of chopping/ironing/pinning/sewing/dying I ended up with a dress! It was supposed to be a summer dress, but it proved to be very versatile when the day I wanted to wear it happened to be a cold and rainy 17°C day!

I'm a mother and I repeat myself enough times when talking to my children, so I'm not all that keen to do it here too! If you'd like more details and photos please head on over to my original post. I can't wait to share more projects with you all very very soon!

- nay TheWardrobeSurgeon