Dressy pants that my mom helped me make. The only thing I've ever made using a pattern.
A skirt I remade from some old dungarees I found in my Grandma's attic. The pocket came from some other jeans, and the retro numbers were found in some box in the attic.
I took an old XXL t-shirt from a our family reunion, took the sides in and added a slit and a shoe lace to add so style to the front.
The fabric came from the bottom of a skirt that my mom had hemmed shorter. The plastic frog came from my old toy box, and the one-arm strap came off an old canvas shopping bag.
I found some weird fabric in an old box, and made a weird halter top with "Feelin' Crabby" written in fabric paint and an orange satin crab that I probably stole from Jo-Ann Fabrics when I was a kid. Some orange ribbon to lace up the bottom added a finishing touch.
Some orange yarn, lace off an old curtain, and another old pair of jeans.
I tried making pleats unsuccessfully, and also wasted a whole bottle of fabric paint to add the Finnish flag to the pocket. I didn't wear this one very much.
This skirt was one of my favorites. I again cut up some old jeans that had the zipper missing. I added a zipper diagonally across the front, and embellished it with lots of random fabric pieces, some lace in the front slit, a plastic frog, and wrote "MMM Nice" on the back pocket in fabric marker. No idea why I chose that phrase. My cousin wore this a few times in NYC and got a lot of compliments.
This old pair of boy's jeans had had a rip fixed on the left thigh, so I ripped out the seam and left it as a high slit. I removed a back pocket, embellished it, and made the waist bigger with a chunk of denim and an embroidered 61.
This once was a large Old Navy t-shirt. I turned it inside out, took the sides in, cut the collar and sleeves off, and used dot fabric paint to put my brand on the front.
I added a fabric T Rex and a big unnecessary yellow zipper to this old shirt of my brothers. I wore this one a lot.
This no-sew remaking strategy for big old t-shirts is easy. Just cut off the sleeves and some excess fabric on the sides, and then slit the fabric up to where you want to the armhole and tie them together to get a cowgirl style shirt. Not my favorite creation.
This was just an old pajama shirt that I (unevenly) added some no-stretch white fabric to to make a Finnish flag.
I knit giant armwarmrs/legwarmers on size 35 knitting needles.
This was my first attempt at knitting in the round. I didn't know that I was supposed to make sure my stitches weren't twisted, and of course they were. I kept going just to get the practice in, and then flattened the lump that resulted from the twist, added arms, and had a great weird tank top sweater with a built-in pregnancy bump or hunchback. It seems like it should be somehow cool, but it just wasn't. Now I know always to check my stitches when knitting on circular needles, and haven't made that mistake ever again.
This is my favorite creation. I took some more left-over fabric from an old skirt of my mom's (in the second picture you can see where the skirt's slit was), added fabric that had been used on my childhood bedroom curtains for straps, sewed a blue chair from my dollhouse on the front, and wrote "SIT" in the same blue fabric along the slit. How awesome and provocative was I in high school?! I wore it to school a few times with my mom's Dirndlkleid white cropped lacy shirt underneath.
This was a spandex dress that I wore to Homecoming. I also wore it to school one day. And no teachers ever told me it was inappropriate... what was wrong with them?
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