Refashion Co-op

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

All your dress refashions!

I have just bumped this to the top of the pile - only one more week to add your dress refashions!!! Can't wait to see them :-)
The Refashion Co-op has recently celebrated its 2 year birthday. The feedback I got from readers and contributors that day gave me the push I needed to start this series like the "what would you do?" posts again. This time around the goal is to create a series of resource pages on Refashion Co-op. The first theme is "Dress Refashions". The new format is as follows:

A linky party hosted on Refashion Co-op, asking for links to your own dress refashions (old and new, on and off the co-op).
A link collection hosted on Eddie's Room, asking for links to any dress refashion tutorial.
A Pinterest board with dress refashions, which you can help add pins to.
Finally, a page about the chosen theme on Refashion Co-op with links to all - for future inspiration.

So please help me create this resource by sharing your own dress refashion in the Refashion Co-op Linky Party below.

Grab the badge for your blog: (I have added the code for you to grab on my blog as I can't do it here)
You can use this image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHKqSi7n9ic/UZOa6k33EMI/AAAAAAAAASM/aoylHjmr9Z4/s200/dressrefashionrc.png
and please link it to: http://refashionco-op.blogspot.com
Update thanks to Sandy's question: This includes everything dress related. So dresses that are altered, dresses made out of other clothes/curtains/sheets and dresses refashioned into something else.
If you want to share links to your own or other peoples dress refashion tutorial - come on over to Eddie's Room!

Can't wait to see your refashions,
Eddie
& the Refashion Co-Op editing team

Other ways to share links related to dress refashions.
Pinterest: please pin on the dress refashions board.
Facebook: please share on the Refashion Co-op page and Eddie's Room page
Instagram: use the hashtag #dressrefashion and please share with @eddieduckling
Twitter: use hashtag #dressrefashion, please share with @HenrietteRoued and @RefashionCoOp

Do note that by sharing your image and link you are giving us permission to use this image when we are writing about dress refashions. We will of course always link back to your original refashion and mention your name/blog name.

'90s Navy-Striped Dress

Check out this beauty in all its '90s glory:

Now refashioned into this perfectly perfect dress for Summer:

To see the full process, check out my blog, All Glorious.

Hope you're all having a great Wednesday!

Hat from pants

I am participating in the Me-Made-May 2013, and last Friday's theme was hat. I took the opportunity to finally make myself one!

Enter this old (probably 6-7 years old) linen blend pair of pants/trousers. I've chopped a portion off it initially when up-sizing (in my book that is another version of refashioning) its matching jacket.

Perfect fabric for a spring/summer hat in my opinion.

Using the pattern Vogue V8844 I have in stash, and choosing View A I got to work.

(with contrast fabric that came off one of my previous skirt project. It was too long, so I chopped off a lot off the hem, and these portion plus scraps were used towards the contrast of the hat).

There were some piecing that might be required when using scraps/leftovers/not big enough piece of fabric. But as long as you make sure to ascertain they are of the same grain, it will be okay. I was not that particular re grains for projects such as hats, but when upsizing/refashioning garments, it is highly advisable to make sure the grains are on point. :)

Being a slow worker that I am, it took me a night and morning to complete it. Somewhere around that. :)

If you are interested to see more of my refashion projects, do visit my Mission: Refashion page on my blog.

Happy refashioning! :)
Far

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Curtain Samples to Thirteen Tutus

This is a story of a bunch of curtain samples which whished to become famous and dance and twirl on a stage. So they went to a kindergarten and started to scream "Cut me! Cut Me!" until a teacher heard them and gave them to me, asking me to transform them into

thirteen tutus for the End-Of-School Recital!

Here's the "before":

And here are the "after":

Maxi Polka Dot Dress to Sweetheart Hi-Low Dress

I couldn't pass up this $5 thrifted find because it's rayon and polka dotted. 'Nuff said in my opinion. The huge amount of fabric didn't hurt either. But it was all sack shaped.

So first I cinched in the sides. Then I cut the bodice like so.

The back had some lacings that I forgot to take a pic of. I used the lacings to make the spagetti straps.

But as I wanted a sweetheart neck line I pinched and gathered at the center.

But then I added a little band of fabric as a pretty accent.

Then it was time for the skirt.

I checked out some DIY's of hi-low skirts on the interwebs and some of them said to cut the skirt in kind of an 'S' curve. I did that. Here was my first cut. I rose the front up a little higher after trying it on after my first cut.

And here's some after shots.

Oh almost forgot to mention. Here's my inspiration. A Forever 21 dress.

I think I got it about right.