Well, I am happy to say that I put another one of the tutorials I've posted on this blog to the test--and it turned out moderately successful. I used the men's shirt t0 skirt tutorial to make a skirt out of three shirts I wore on my mission. These shirts were very dear to me, but they had really seen better days. I wanted to hang on to them and had some sort of half-planned ambitions of making a quilt, but I don't think I have quite enough old mission clothes to pull off a real quilt. So this tutorial was a great solution for my what-to-do-with-these-shirts-I-don't-want-to-toss dilemma. So, here's the finished product:
The front:
The back:
My favorite detail, the lace:
Unfortunately, even with the lace it's still a bit too short--guess I have pretty short arms. As you can see in the following picture, I have to sag it way down to get it to the right length. I've got to figure something out, because I think it's really cute and I don't want to have to abandon it. Any ideas?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Memory Skirt
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Labels: Make Your Own, Refashion, Skirts
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If you still have the shirts, you can use the portion that was the "back" of the shirt and cut out 5 to 6 inch strips the length of the back and sew them all together for a 6 inch by how every much you need to go around the bottom of the skirt and make it look kinda like a patchwork skirt. I wish I had a picture to show you, but I don't. Hope it makes sense. And by the way, I'm Jennifer's cousin.
-Rachelle
Hey thanks, that's a really good idea! I appreciate the comment, and thanks for coming by the blog :)
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