Thanks to all my models for modeling my upcycle outfits for the op shop to cat walk, so proud of you all, about 6 weeks when into my collection , but i loved every min of it, thanks to my husband for cooking my dinners and bring me wine while i sewed,,,,
All the work i did on my course this year paid off, and i got "Highest academic achievement" 2012
looking forward to a rest, closed the door on my sewing room, while i work on getting my two art papers finished,, now there is art stuffed all over my dinning room and lounge lol
Upcycle Ideas and Design
Up-cycle of ideas and designs, for fun, to save the environment. save money, be different to everyone else. also to be creative.
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Zip outfit
Zipped
This started with a few zips from
the Hospice shop, First off to make a bodice,, then the project got bigger and
I had to go back to hospice shop and by every zip they had, so I had enough to
make the bodice and matching shorts. About 150 zips, on my first attempt, I
matched up the threads, took me hours to just do the front of the bodice,
remade it using nylon thread instead, much easier , once bodice was done, and
cut into shape, it was on to shorts, took a bit of thinking on how I was going
to do this. Took a couple of tries, to get it right.
pants suit from skirt
Summers
coming
This skirt and knit tee shirt was
another gem from the hospice shop. It is
so colourful, made of cotton, and it required no ironing.
Reminds me summer is on the way,
maybe a trip to Fiji,
just roll it up and throw it in a suitcase. It’s cool to wear.
There was so much fabric, it was
great to work with, I cut the skirt in half and made a new skirt, added a knit
band, then draped fabric to get the top how I wanted it, with a sexy back. Then
I sewed up inside leg to
make it into shorts, putting a band on the bottom.
Fun, cool, colourful, outfit.
leather dress
From not so hot to hot hot hot
Wow it pays to live at the hospice
shop, this leather jacket had undone at side seams, but that was ok.
I took out the lining, cut the sleeves
off, undid the side seams and shoulder seam, cut off button holes and buttons,
sewed up pockets, but left them there as a feature. The long opening zip from a
black shirt was added to the front.
To give the dress some length, I
added the bottom of the sleeve to the shoulders, leaving the buttons to add
interest, then bound the edges, and glued the hem.
Out of the sleeve jacket I made a
hat. Using a button off the jacket front for top.
One….. sexy black leather dress.
For $2 plus thread and needles
Leather dresses are very much in
for the 2012/2013 season. Leather is becoming softer and softer and in many
colours.
off to lunch outfit
Out
to lunch we go
This is a knit I just fell in
love with when I saw it at the hospice shop. The inside of the fabric looked great, lots of
colour and just a bit different. It started life as a long straight skirt and
shirt.
I undid the skirts waist band, to
give more length, and made it into a fitted dress, using left over bits for the
flowers.
With the top, I liked the
structure, so I looked at different ways of wearing it. I took
the sleeves out, buttons off, hand sewed up the button holes, took it in, and
turned it upside down as a wrap around top, with a lovely soft draped neckline.
This dress and top is easy to
wear, up to date, and the top can be worn a few different ways, makes for a
nice top with jeans, or black fitted dress.
I used just about every bit of
fabric, using one of the sleeves as an outfit for my tiny dogs “ Johnboy”.
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Skirt and shirt with a difference
Black and white
I started with a very outdated knit wool skirt I
found at hospice shop, and I felt it could be made into a more up market piece,
that would be fun to wear. I turned it
upside down and cut eight strips down to half way, ironed on fusing, and placed
wire under fusing,
I also added elastic to the waist. By sewing the strips along the bottom, painting
liquid stiffener to help keep its shape, and bending the wire gave it a funky
look. The strips now stand out from the
body permanently.
The shaping of the shirts took a lot of thinking
about, one problem was the shape across the shoulders of each shirt, I threw
out idea of adding a zip to front and instead joined them with a slight gather
and shape across top. I then used adding the sleeves as ties.
Shirt dress
Shirt dress made from mens shirts
This dress was inspired by my
love for cotton dresses, sadly I cut up a lovely mans shirt as I loved the
strips, to get this outfit.
The skirt used just about every
little piece of fabric. I started by undoing the shirt and then joined all the
pieces together to make a long strip, made a circle that went around me,, then
made the top part out of a women’s short sleeve shirt, (the long opening zip
was removed and used in a leather dress)
The darts were taken out, and I
cut out the top using a pattern made, an invisible zip was put in down the
back. The collar of the shirt was joined
to neck edge, and the sleeves made into a belt, then the black shirt cuffs were
made into loose cuffs.
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