Men's shirt into dress

Using the last time creatively I took up again

 for transforming a men's shirt into comfortable and easy to sew dess 

ideal for summer but also for spring and fall season.

video tutarial

more photos and my blog 

Lining a Lace T

Hello Refashion Co-op. I hope all of you are safe and well. I found this pretty lace t-shirt at a clothes swap and didn't realize right away that the front was see through.

I mean truly see-through. I am not living a see through shirt kind of life, so this needed to be fixed. Yes, I could just wear 2 shirts but that is annoying. The maker could have made a shirt that covered my body. Y'know like a shirt usually does. Anyway.....

I used this freebie promo t-shirt as a lining. I used the back of the blue shirt to line the front of the lace shirt. I pinned it together and did my sewing along the seams. The back was solid and opaque, so it didn't need any lining. 

 The lining turned out great. The lace really pops with the blue behind it.

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

T-shirt from the stash / scraps

I've had the stripe fabric I used for this t-shirt in my stash so long I don't remember where it came from - but it was an off cut and I only ever had enough for part of a t-shirt.  The strips are navy, light blue and white, and I love the colour combination, but it was hard to find other fabrics that worked.

Then I started planning an Alabama Chanin t-shirt project with the two t-shirts above (more on that eventually) and the light blue t-shirt was a perfect colour match.  I also had some scraps from a navy blue maxi-dress that I've been cutting up for years - and the plan came together.

The light blue t-shirt has a mysterious white-ish mark which I thought was bleach but it only shows on the right side.  So I used the 'purl' side of the knit fabric on the outside.  I can tell but I doubt anyone else will ever notice it's technically the wrong side.  I took a close up photo but you can't tell in the photo either.  The pattern is one I've been tweaking for a long time and this t-shirt has a slight high-low hem.  Buttons on the neckline for fun. 

I'm happy to have made something useful from items in my stash of refashions and fabric left-overs.

 Happy refashioning!

Mimi

DIY Tied Top

I bought this shirt long time before corona time and was waiting for some inspiration,

 it's 100 % cotton in lovely beige color. 

Shirt before

( I'm sorry it's not ironed 😸)

The advantages of quarantine are that you can learn completely new things such as, for example, long delayed ability to shoot and process videos on youtube

So

how to refashion men's shirt into tied top on video 

Here you can see more photos of ready tied top

Une nouvelle jupe !

Hello ça faisait longtemps que je n'étais pas venu ici.
Voici donc un nouveau recyclage avec une jupe en jean et un joli tissu voile en jersey ...

La première étape a consisté à teindre la jupe en noir.
Puis grâce à un patron Burda, j'ai découpé le devant et le dos avec des courbes inversées....
Ensuite j'ai coupé 2 carrés de 110 x 110 cm au centre desquels j'ai découpé un cercle correspondant à la mesure des découpes de la jupe. 
Et voici le résultat....

Dans les chutes j'ai cousu une petite ceinture afin d'apporter une jolie finition. 

Voilà, à très bientôt et portez-vous bien
Elisa Elisa