Easy peasy sun dress to skirt

 

Take one rather gorgeous sun dress that doesn't fit...

 



 



And convert it into a skirt that does fit by...

- unpicking the bottom of the zip to the waistband
- cutting off the skirt to the desired length
- sewing up the gap left by the zip
- cutting some elastic to the desired width
- marking the depth of the waistband and pinning in place
- sew all the way around the waistband leaving a gap of a couple of inches
- add a safety pin to the end of the elastic and pull it through the new waistband channel
- sew the elastic together with a zig zag stitch
- sew up the gap

Ta-dah!

Easy peasy!!

If you'd like to see more pictures of this and other refashions, then you can head on over to my blog at

Sew Selena

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Birthday Quilt Denim Refashion

For my youngest son's recent birthday, I made him a quilt out of a whole bunch of old jeans that I had.

I started out with all of these...

denim stash

...and ended up with this...

Can you tell that he's excited? ;)

After all of the work that went into making this, I was one tired mama!

He looked pretty sleepy too.

This is one heavy and warm blankie too, let me tell ya'! :)

If you want to see the more detailed tutorial, head on over to the Diary of a MadMama blog!

Tata!

~Jen

Hi all, hope everyone had a fantastic holiday!  I found this knit sweater in my grandma's closet. Definitely too big and outdated for me. I love shades of this green/blue, but this is a bit bright for me. Hopefully the addition of the black trim tones it down.

I modeled the shape of my refashion after this light jacket at Modcloth. I took the sweater completely apart, removed the pockets, flipped the front upside down, and took in the arms and sides. I'm pretty happy with the results.

Check it out at www.patchworkpastries.blogspot.com

Love Flow Creations "in progress" overalls

This is actually a work in progress.  I asked my "biggest fan" customer at my Etsy store what kinds of things she would like to see in my store.  She told me that one of some of the things she really loves are overalls and animals.  So I put them together.  The tee shirt pieces are pinned to a pair of black cotton overalls.  The kind with the drawstring waist.  Yes, the kind I wore in the early 80's.  But they are just as cute and comfy now in the new millennium.

Well, what do you think?  Do you think she will like them?

Simplified Button-Up Skirt

In on of my posts last month on Refashion Co-op (found here), I refashioned one of my husband's old button-up dress shirts into a skirt. However, after a few attempts to wear it I realized it just wasn't going to work out seeing that one of the buttons could easily come open and reveal what shouldn't be revealed to the general public. (You know, there are laws against that and all...)

So I decided to refashion my refashioned skirt and found this process much, much simpler with much, MUCH better coverage in the instance a button wants to come unbuttoned. And it literally took no longer than 10-15 minutes once I ripped out the original seams (other than the side seams) and started over.

You can see the full "transformation" post on my blog, All Glorious. Hope you all had a great Easter weekend!