Refashion: Make your own Socks

Einen schönen Sonntag wünsche ich Euch allen!

I had some creative days and was sewing a lot. So finally I decided to sew my own socks :)

I used an old shirt which I tried to refashioned first to a new shirt. But I didn't liked it so it became something totally different. 

See the whole tutorial here.

Do you like it? Did you ever sew socks?

Nina

REFASHION: Side seam practice

While rummaging through my refashion stashes, I discovered three T-shirts that weren't quite ready for my T-shirt quilt bin. Unfortunately, the three tees were a bit too small for me, but with a little tampering, the tees fit me again! In a previous post, I tried several methods to enlarge a shirt and found a simple process that I liked.

With the brown Holt International tee, I cut two strips from a yellow refashioned skirt that I never wore and simply inserted them into the side seam. The process was simple because I used the skirt's hem (I love no-hem refashions) and aligned it with the shirt's hem. I like the "sporty" look of the yellow strips and the strips match the yellow font.

In my stash, I had an old white lace tank in need of repair, but I felt the material would be better used as strips for the Dunder Mifflin T-shirt and an old family T-shirt (dark blue with white writing). For the Dunder Mifflin shirt, I used the non-lace side of the tank, matched the tank and shirt hems, and sewed the white strips into the open side seams.

For more pictures and words, click here.

Jennifer Elliott

DIY TUTORIAL HOW TO SEW SHORTS

Hello Angels!

If you love shorts like me , it will be perfect post for you.
I made my shorts for old and old-fashioned skirt.
Which looked ... almost like this one ( I forgot to make a photo of the right skirt :-(  )

Little snip snip and voila !

 On me :-)

Whole tutorial here KLIK!
Do you like bows on my shoes, here you can see little tutorial how to make them quickly and easy !

Love,

upcycle a scarf to a poncho/shrug/cardi/shawl

I had crocheted poncho with buttons for my sister some months back and wish I had it myself all summer as it was rather cold in Ireland.  When I was unpacking some winter clothes, I decided to turn a long scarf I had into something similar by cutting it a bit shorter, and placing some buttons at each end and sewing buttonholes.  It worked out a lot better than I expected and already a wardrobe staple.

If its buttoned one side only, its a poncho.  If these buttons are to the front, you can button the back and it becomes a ' cardigan'.  If each end is buttoned it becomes a shrug.  and if unbuttoned, its back to a shawl.

I have photos belows of the poncho and shrug, and some more at the blog www.theupsew.com 

Detroit Tigers TShirt to Skirt

I started my work week with a bang! The office I work at got tickets to the 2nd to last home baseball game for the Detroit Tigers! Wait...it gets even better....we got VIP suite tickets!!!

I originally wanted to turn this...

into a cute dress, but it got complicated. I had to switch my plans into making a skirt using the bottom half of this shirt.

Sewing the casing for the elastic waistband.

I threaded the elastic through and stitched up the hole!

Now this would be way to short as is so luckily JoAnn Fabrics has Tigers fabric on sale! 

I cut an 8 inch piece that I folded over to make a nice bottom for my skirt.

Pinned the fabric and sewed it to my skirt.

Then I finished it off with some navy bias tape!

I cut out 3 circles from the scraps to make a decorative flover. I cut the edges into flower petals and sewed it all together with a button!

Then I hot glued it to a jelwery pin.

I was lucky enough that my roomie gave me this awesome Tigers tank top to wear with my new skirt!!! I had to pair my new outfit with some leggins and an orange sweater because the weather was supposed to get down in the low 50s, pretty cold to watch a baseball game.

Round 1 of food!

Round 2: desert! Yumm!!

We played the White Sox and lost 3 to 2, but it was still an exciting game!

We had a good view of the fountain sponsored by Chevrolet that would spout off everytime the music played!

I had such a great night cheering on our Tigers in my new Tigers outfit!!! Can't wait until next season to wear it again!

Check out my stash of refashions on my blog: http://therefashstash.wordpress.com

 
Happy Refashioning!!!