Posts Tagged ‘ thrifted ’

All I want to wear anymore is cashmere

So maybe I shall. High on the success of the T-shirt in random white stuff, I used the same McCall’s 6164 to cut into a boxy purple cashmere baby originally made by like Lands End or some other purveyor of quality, albeit square merch. Here’s what it looked like before (ps- I bought it on [ READ MORE ]

Voila: New dress from old dress

I love it. And it jives with the manifesto. It’s something I will wear. Longs for tights. Had I to do this refashion over again, I’d have taken more time to figure out the front closure to maintain it. But there was so little fabric left for facings, I ended up sewing it shut and [ READ MORE ]

Bulky necks are no good.

Kept staring at this sweater. Color good, weight good, long length fantastic. Neck… holding us all back. Ten minutes tonight with the scissors and machine and the neck is gone. I cut off the cowl, leaving about an inch all the way around. Wrapped the inch around to the back, pinned in place and zigzagged [ READ MORE ]

Gone, baby, gone

The bad fits just have to go. Only these were extra hard to toss because I had worked on them. I thought about why I kept them around when they didn’t make me feel cute. Aha! I had learned something from each. Instead of hanging onto the piles, I will write a little note about [ READ MORE ]

Manifesto: Dress from dress

I’m trying this little dress refashion for fall, using the copious amounts of easy knit fabric from a giant honking shirtdress to cut out a simple four-piece dress from pattern Simplicity 3506. The original was cut from a border print, using the fabric’s variations to make different pieces of the dress. The belt’s all cut [ READ MORE ]

Word on Georgie-girl

Sleeping standing up. Nose pokes out.

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