Fitted Sheet to Fitting Shirt

     .My husband luvs tie-dye , I guess one could say hes a modern day hippie, but all the shirts he gets the dye job is kinda, eh'. He brought some tie-dye fitted sheets to me some time ago, and they've been sitting among the rest of my mountain of materiel and recyclable clothing. With my vacation on the rise and our plans to go to holiday impending, I wanted us to have something new to wear, so for him I decided to make a new shirt using a t-shirt that fits him well to make the pattern.

My sewing machine and myself reconciled for a bit in order to get the job done faster but i still had to hand sew the sleeves on.
As my first real item from scratch I'm rather happy at how it turned out, so much so that i'm making sure to keep the pattern for future use, :) now on to making my own clothing pieces before tomorrow,:( dang time goes by quick. well ttyl--QueenOfNothing.

Pirates Wanted

        As this was a quick, well not really quick, but none the less spur of the moment project I have no before pics. However it's easy enough to imagine a plain white t shirt with holes littering the front like shrapnel  in a war zone. I wanted to surprise my husband when he got back from his friends who were having a bday party by fixing it, and finally decided to use an old t shirt refashion I no longer wore any more. Simple enough, cut out a square pin, and sew. One of these days me and the sewing machine however must come to an understanding, because though I find hand sewing to be stress relieving therapy, it takes forevers. I like the blanket stitching I did around the edge though, can't see it however but it's much more decorative.. In any case he luved it and has already worn it several times. ttyl--QueenOfNothing

Punkish pants from trashed pants.

     So been rather busy with summer cleaning and moving things around but I now have a workable space and so to my husbands happiness was finally able to repair his favorite jeans using a pair of pajama bottoms and some zippers I picked up at the thrift store. They were selling zippers a quarter a piece so I just bought 3 dollars worth to use on other projects :).

Before

After

     I used the zippers to help patch up the holes in the back though you cant really see them and added the the pajama material to patch the holes in the front inside and added some behind the zippers so that their functional, then added the cuff from the bottom of the pajama bottoms to the back pockets to try and fix as well as hide the deterioration of the top of the pockets. I did what I could considering how far gone they were, but hes happy with them and says there still comfortable. More importantly there now wearable. I wound up doing the fabric behind the holes in full panels though just in case of future ripping. well ttyl :) --QueenOfNothing

Edgy Lace

     So I have this tendency to cut the top part off of t-shirts, since I don't like t-shirts ( feels like their strangling me) to make quick off the shoulder tops that are comfy. Have quite a few of them now and feel the need to do more with them to make them look more finished and what not. 
     One in particular is a shirt I've had for years. Originally I cut it to because the neckline was in disrepair and I wanted to extend it's life because it's incredibly comfortable for wearing around the house on those days you plan to go no where and or wearing when I exercise or go for my walks, but I've come to like it so much I wanted to further extend it's life and use as something loose to wear with leggings or shorts out.

     I found some black lace and ribbon in my stash to embellish with and after using a white eyeliner pencil in the stead of  tailors chalk drew, and cut out my design to sew on to the shirt. Hemmed the top added a little gather the sleeve with the ribbons, used the left over lace for a little peekaboo panel on the sides, and once all my hand sewing was complete wound up with this little number.

     Not the best pic, just got back from my walk but eh, it's edgy, feminine, and most important still extremely comfy. My next project is going to be time consuming. The hubby tends to wear his fav jeans till they literally fall apart and then expects me to save them "sigh" this is going to be a doosy to give you and idea of what i'm up against.....

the other pair is even worse...... well ttyl -- QueenOfNothing

Going Green

     Originally I was planning on refashioning this dress top into a more wearable top, as I wasn't able to fit into it even before the holidays happened, :( . Alas however, not only was that holding me off of other projects, because I didn't want to start a new one until I'd finished doing that one, but also it wasn't really working out, and my original idea I realized I wouldn't wear now any way.

     I had started thinking about making one of these purses I had been making back in my high school and decided that this may be a good place to start. It recycles oatmeal containers to retain it's cylindrical shape. I do so like recycling so taking, this top, an old scrub top of mine, the alleged oat meal container, and a few other tools .... I got this cute little summer purse.

      I love recycling :) -QueenOfNothing

Flop, To Flip Flop

     Its been a rough couple of weeks, the kind where nothing goes right and everything you plan has plans of it's own, but here's to looking up. I managed to get a quick little refashion in yesterday before work, and I have plans to work all weekend on the never ending pile starting with some t -shirt and shoe refashions. So I started with these....

I don't really wear these anymore, picture should say as much why lol, but as hot as it's getting and what with my distaste for sneakers when i'm not either working or going for my jog, i needed something. something a little edgier, and this was really easy to do.

I was going to paint the studs afterwards but my husband said he liked them roughed up looking, course then he asked me where i managed to find such a thick flip flop with an elevated heel...... anything to give me a few more inches lol, well ttyl- QueenOfNothing.

a little patchwork.

     So, ever have that fav pair of pants that you wear until something happens to them to make them unwearable, I have several. This is one of them.

      Nothing like going to the store and having your husband point out that your undies are showing lol. This isn't much of a refashion really but I plan to work on several today being as i'm off and don't have errands. especially because my bf, and sis in law is coming in tomorrow and she has a way of sweeping you up like a hurricane and you never know when you'll land :).

     I had tried just sewing the hole up before but in came undone so this time i cut a pic out of one of the shirts in my growing pile to use as a patch that i hoped wouldn't be to look at my butt oriented and would go with the majority of the shirts i wear with them, I'm happy enough with it, I have a million tops and really only skirts at this point to wear with them. well ttyl---QueenOfNothing.

earring refashion

    A simple refashion for now as i get ready to break down and get some things done lol. just a quick fix for a pair of earrings I bought on sale, not noticing that they were missing a feather until I 'd went to wear them. So yesterday i was going through my jewelry and happened upon a pair of clip-on's I'd bought at a flee market a while back that I had got for it's little portraits but hadn't really worn because, well, their clip-on's. So I merged the two, and with the extra feather and one of the clip-on backings made an ear cuff.

I rather like it. much more interesting in my opinion. :) -QueenOfNothing.

Go thunder-cats go

So, my husband got this t-shirt from good will just a little back, and I have successfully stoles it.... with his permission :P I had seen Corrine's summer tutorial on a crop t-shirt she had done and wanted to try it. So turned this

and this head bands metal... I forget the name...

into this

     I pretty well hand sewed everything, when I went to use the sewing machine on the material i was working with things got ugly real quick lol. happy with the results, though I plan to go back and sew the little straps on as well to reinforce it. went to the store and started falling apart lol. well ttyl- QueenOfNothing.

Just a Little Trim on The Sides

     So I seem to have a thing for jacket to vest refashions right now, lol. Unfortunately once again no before pics :(. I'm playing catch up with old projects that I've started but never finished, so hopefully one of these days I'll have some. Made from another jacket i found while perusing the thrift stores, I loved the print and construction of this jacket. You can't see it in the pics, which are still better than last time, but there are little silver pinstriped running through it besides the floral.

     I removed the arms and hand sewn some ribbon i found in a craft isle as the trim, then used the same ribbon to replace the string in the corset at the back that had seen better days. I like it and it should get some better use with it being spring. ttyl----QueenOfNothing

military inspired jacket to world peace vest.

     So firstly I want to apologize for the crappiness of the pics. The camera and myself were having a fight, and as this is an older unfinished- and I say unfinished because the original finish was too boring- project, I don't have any before pics of when it was still a jacket.

     Found this little number on one of my thrift store sprees and automatically fell in luv with it's militaristic, and Asian design, but as I don't like wearing jackets in doors felt it would get more use as a vest I could wear during the winter and the summer. So after removing the sleeves and hand sewing the arm holes (I have access to a sewing machine but prefer to work with my hands as time allows, it's relaxing, plus I feel like I have more control.) I had this-

    I think I may have worn it once...So in order to add interest and make it so it could be worn with more things, decided to add some patches from a button up also found while thrifting. Loved the patches, hated the fit.

and so after hand stitching got this, which will hopefully get more use.

     

     So there's my first real post simple but I'm starting small :)- QueenOfNothing

Hello's :P

     Hello there, to be quiet honest of never really blogged before, so the issue of what one says alludes me lol.
Firstly, I want to say that it is my luv of clothes and creating that brings me here, you no idea how happy i am to possibly be contributing. To me who has had low self esteem for a good majority of life my clothes had become more than just something i wore, but my armor, accessories my weapons, makeup my war paint, and while my out looks gotten better, my view on the importance of a sense of self style remains the same. Dress for yourself, whatever represents you that day , weather it's that extra boost of confidence you need, or just something that makes you happy, and lets face it, it's not always found in your closet, or the racks at the store but you can come rather close.
      My problem lies in the fact that one, I desperately need to stop buying new clothes, and two, I'm a procrastinator. I originally came upon clothing refashioning through thread-banger, and stalked the old site wardrobe refashion, but alas it came to an end. So I took to visiting this site from the gecko and finally got the nerve to put in a contributor request in the hopes that this will give me the boost i need to finally get my many projects under way, and stop with he needless shopping. plus if i ever were to get my skills down I'd like to eventually have my own store :)
     i have literally two dressers, and four garbage bags full at this point of material and clothes that need to be refashioned, and so to end this ridiculously long intro, here's to hoping for my first project post soon - QueenOfNothing  "cuz i can'ts get nothing done" booo.