Hello everybody its that time of year where flowers bloom weather gets warmer and its time and its time to bring out the pretty dresses, tank tops, skirts, and shorts. Now some people dont have the time to take the fabric and make the clothes from scratch. Im here to tell you you can take an ugly pair of jeans or a shirt and turn it into that great new spring outfit!!!
If you have a shirt that you love but it does not fit right There are a few things you can do with it. If it has sleeves you can take the sleeves off and then hem the armholes or you can add lace. Another thing you can do is remove the sleeve and take a different fabric and replace the sleeve with the new fabric to give it life. You can also cut the shirt to make it shorter or you can add more fabric that you like to make it into a dress. ( I do have pics that will be uploaded later to show you with pictures what I mean)
Also you can take a shirt and cut it across the top, right under the armholes, to make a kind of tube top. You will want to hem the top and put some elastic in it to make it stay up without the help of straps. Now if you dont want it to be a tube top but a tank top or something of the sort. You can make shoulder straps and sew those on to the tube and make it into a tank top.
Now with those old jeans that you no longer want. Turn them into a skirt or take the legs of the jeans and turn them into a cute bag! You can also make them into shorts and add some decalls or paint or buttons to make them alive.
Now also I know people who want to make their own swimsuits> I will have a post coming up on that soon because i plan to make one of my own and will take pictures of the process so you can have step by step directions.
July 20, 2009 10:23 pm