I’ve made a weird patched dress using twelve old Tshirts of my boys’. I know it’s bizarre and crazy and probably a little bit ugly but I totally love it! I’m constantly pinning patchwork-y and randomly asymmetric things. I’m actually very inspired by and…
Tag: Wardrobe Refashion
patchwork Sandpoint top
I’ve made a new top. Well, kinda new from old actually, since it’s made from 4 old Tshirts cut up and patched together. My refashioning bag yielded; a light purply-brown from Craig, two pinks from Tim, and a chocolate-y one which is…
pink
I’ve rejigged these strawberry pink jeans into a skirt. I made the jeans two years ago using an Au Bonheur des petites mains pattern courtesy of shams, thank you shams! There’s lots of things I liked about the jeans; they…
Denim slides!
I’ve made some shoes!!! This is my first foray into “proper” footwear. Yeah, I made slippers recently, but I’m not counting those. And technically these are slides, which are pretty basic things on the shoe scale, really. But still. They…
Dusting slippers
I’ve made something useful; slippers, that clean! I pinned these mopping slippers a while ago, and have now got around to making my own. See, we have no carpets in our house and lots of animals; meaning furry dust-bunnies appear…
a split-backed top
Once upon a time there was a shirt, a man’s shirt. This shirt was superficially unremarkable, but was made out of a wonderful microfibre that had extraordinarily silk-like properties. Soft, ripply, with a quietly glossy sheen, it felt wonderfully cool…
Olive Frankenstein skirt
I am notoriously bad at tossing out old scraps of fabric. Particularly if I really really like the colour. And I really really like olive. So; after finishing my patched pockets skirt I still had some promisingly largish pieces…
“Baseball” skirt and tee
This is just a bit of silliness really; remember I said I had some idiotic plans for my leftover off-white leatherette? well I just hopped straight into it. This is a new skirt, leatherette with red stitching to delineate the seam…
