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.
Wardrobe Refashion
13 March 2010
03 March 2010
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
02 March 2010
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.
24 February 2010
Blue socks tutorial -WR
Hello, dear readers! How are you today?
It was ironing day around here and while I was at it I took this pair of old and worn out socks to throw away. Then the obvious caught my attention! Why not deconstruct them and get a pattern? And also actually sew a pair of socks with a heel?
Here's how I did it:
1. Cut an old cozy sock around the fold and at the heel seam.
2. Find a piece of knit to refashion/reuse/recycle.
You can see I also matched the hems of the sock and fabric. This one used to be a skirt.
3. I cut the fabric directly around the sock pieces (did not make a paper pattern first) with a margin of 5 mm to serge. Of course, you can hand sew or machine sew them.
4. Pin together the heel pieces right sides in and serge.
Here you can see a serged heel and one turned to the right side.
5.On the long upper part of the sock mark the position to match the heel seam on both sides. I snipped the fabric a bit (over the yellow pin head).
6. Pin the pieces together right sides in and serge.
7. Ups! This pattern seems to have a problem. The heel seam falls under my heel! Which means the old socks were actually too short. Will have to adjust the paper pattern a bit (when I make it) to resolve this little issue.
8. Otherwise, it's a nice little sock.
Ehm, socks! :-)
Quick and easy project. Takes 15 minutes to complete.
Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!
Have a nice and cozy evening wearing your new socks!
20 February 2010
Half a dress refashion - golden shirt - WR
From this dress found at the Sunday market...
...To a fitted waterfall neck shirt.
The fabric is a pink-gold-beige knit. The dress neckline was choking me and needed major scooping. Now I can breathe and it also looks cuter.
I hated the horizontal strip across the hips area so I had to cut the dress in two. Which provided me with some more fabric to reuse, but I would have loooved it as a dress. Sigh...
18 February 2010
Orange slippers - WR
Much cuter than the last pair ! Still have to work on them, though. The elastic is not keeping them up properly. I'll have to insert it in a different manner on the next pair.
10 February 2010
Summer pajamas - WR
It's snowing. The sky looks like it is going to snow for all eternity. Right about the time to sew something for summer to feel warmer, yes? ;-)
This set once was an 80's gathered skirt someone gave me.
Again, don't ask me about the patterns, please, since this project came from the UFO pile. I remember tracing them from a Burda issue with lingerie...
09 February 2010
Brown and pipes t-shirt - WR
Made from remnants. Don't remember which pattern I used to make this t-shirt. Must have been a La Mia Boutique pattern. I cut it several months ago.
It doesn't look so good on me. I believe it was concieved for girls with more bust. :-)
31 January 2010
Pants Burda 1/2006-108 - WR
The pattern:
The fabric:
I used the yellow side of this old duvet cover.
The intention was making a muslin. Wearable, if possible.
The pants in progress:
Front looks good.
Length ok. I added several cm to the pattern.
Took in the back some.
The pants finished:
Nice front.
The back obviously needs a flat bottom alteration. Now I know that should be made right away, directly on the pattern piece, whenever I plan to make trousers.
Should I add back pockets?
Details:
Wearable!
29 January 2010
Gray ruffled scarves - WR
A quick and easy project. At least I succeeded doing this today. I ventured into making a pants muslin and managed to insert the zip the wrong way - twice. Ugh! Never mind...
Ok, I started with this:
A knit remnant from long time ago.
I cut the piece into four strips, then overlapped two and two.
Zigzagged two parallel seams and trimmed.
One was gathered in a zigzag fashion across the middle, and the other was gathered closer to the edges all around.
The finished scarves on Lilly:
The second is my favorite. Yours?
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