The Flowery Skirt

Light light blue

To make this shirt I used remnants from a last year costume project. Love the shirred ramages and the wide cuffs. The color is so light blue that it reads almost gray.

Socks on the www

How about this?

There were patterns on the net!

resweater.blogspot.com/2010/01/recycled-wool-socks.html

Make sure to check Kris's blog!

www.instructables.com/id/Socks

www.thriftyfun.com/tf36786850.tip.html

www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=12356

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRxt1Bonwhk

Enjoy!

And go make some - floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/2010/02/blue-socks-tutorial-wr.html

Wardrobe refashion - The pledge

I Barbara Jugovac pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovated, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings!

Signed     Barbara Jugovac

 

I Barbara Jugovac pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovated, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings!

Signed     Barbara Jugovac

 

I Barbara Jugovac pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovated, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings!

Signed     Barbara Jugovac

 

I Barbara Jugovac pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovated, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings!

Signed     Barbara Jugovac

 

Is it spring yet?

Hello everyone!

It has been raining today, so I wanted to start with this gorgeous Second hand shop find! Yummy, no? I feel spring when I look at it! Also, little flowers started blooming around the house and made me smile, but the weather forecast said it was going to snow - again. So this little number will have to wait a minute before going to town.

I need to take it in at the sides because it's two sizes too big and maybe shorten it a few cm. And change those ugly buttons. Weeelll, you do understand I had to take it home anyway, don't you? :-))))

I also made some progress on the refashioning front. Finally those superbad fitting jeans became a skirt. Forgot the before pic, sorry.

You know how it goes:

- you measure the length and cut off the surplus of the leg length of the jeans

- unpick the seams of the legs till the point you can easily overlap the pieces

- insert a piece of the leg remnant as a panel to the front and one to the back

- pin first and than try it on to see if it fits nicely, otherwise repeat the process till you're satisfied

- sew the pieces together - I did it directly, with topstitching

To finish this skirt differently, I didn't just hem it, but stitched a decorative stitch  1 cm from the edge and then frayed it. You can click on the photo to see the detail better.