I took the Tshirt below and followed my own tutorial to make this new knotted scarf. Though for this one I cut the front in two pieces and the back in three…
Nothing earth-shattering, but will be a useful little thing to go with the other khakis in my collection…
I love khaki/olive, obviously; one of my best neutrals. This was my daughter’s old Tshirt, and when she gave it the heave-ho I baggsed it; immediatement. That last word is Franglaise, a form of butchered French/English, a language often employed in this household… er, by me mostly. I do have this bad habit of making up words and sometimes even talk in weird, vaguely European accents, particularly after a few drinks. I haven’t on this occasion. Had a few drinks, that is. So got no excuse, really.
Back to the scarf…
The Tshirt in its original form was one of those really badly constructed ones that would not lie straight, and developed strange twisted folds if you tried to fold it flat along the side seams when hanging it up on the clothesline. This is because the sides were cut and sewn just a little bit off. Grrr… my pet hate. Look how it used to be, below… soooo skewiff. So I was pretty elated to be given the opportunity to take the scissors to it.
Now it has a new lease on life, and will not cheese off this laundress ever ever again. Hehehe….
Details:
Top and cardigan; Country Road
Pants; drafted by me, white linen
Scarf; refashioned from an old Tshirt
Thongs (flipflops); Mountain Designs
Very cute scarf and it definitely pulls together your outfit!
I wonder if this style of scarf would work at my age. 😉
Simple, yet very effective. You look great. And I did tell you before that I love the colour of your hair, didn't I? Anyway, I do.
(And I would love to hear your European accent. Do you think it would sound as funny to me as my attempt of an Australian accent would sound to you? ;-))
Thankyou! Karin, my European accent probably sounds ridiculous! I think I do it because I wish I could speak a second language and so this is how I pretend!
Very cute.
Great scarf!
I love the scarf… and what a great idea to refashion an old tshirt (and as usual, I love your photoshoot… I bought a tripod at a yard sale for $3 over the weekend, and now I'm ready to learn to use my self-timer… I'd go to the beach but is was only 38 degrees here in FLORIDA this morning. Brrrrrr. If I go, I'll be modeling fleece.
When my oldest daughter was doing her French reading the other night, I corrected her on a word (actually a sound-effect) she was not pronouncing as written. "It sounds more Frenche that way," she told me. (pronouncing 'Frenche' according to French spelling conventions)
We were still giggling over it the next day.
Franglais is alive and well (and the plague of French Immersion teachers everywhere) in western Canada.
Oh, and the scarf is cute, too.
Oh, I despise shirts that twist as if they have their own mind. You showed it, didn't you?
When i was studying french in high school, my sister used to go around saying "Il y a de fromage dans ma soeur…" (I hope I've remembered the spelling properly) = "there is cheese in my sister." You remember my sister, of the Hanes = heinous underwear, right? We used to laugh about the fromage, oh la la…
what a wonderful thing to do with an old mis-shapen tee! i like the color combination of white and khaki, but never would have thought to pair them myself.
I've been known to coin a word or two, eg., nurney is an unidentified object. I've also been known to try a French word in a Scrabble game…DH won't let me get away with that.
I don't speak french. I did learn Italian at high school and my dad is Italian and speaks a dialect. But I'm not very good at it.
And great idea for the refashion. Does that mean that Perth has cooled down somewhat for you to be wearing a scarf and cardi!
xo
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