So I am absolutely loving this repurposing and refashioning clothes!! It’s so fun to do and it really cheap too! I LOVE it! I just go to garage sales, pick things up for $.25 or $.50 and then go crazy. Here is my latest creation, I made these fun flowers for the collar of this shirt!
This is how I made it
1) I took this dress/shirt. I’m not a big fan of the long shirts that you wear leggings under, so I just made it a shirt
2) I cut off about 5 inches off the bottom. This is what I used for the flowers
3) I then cut the fabric into circles. I had 5 big, 5 medium and 5 small ones
4) Using a zig zag stitch with the length on a low setting, I sewed around the circles. I got this idea here
5) I did that for all the circles, this is what it looked like with the three together
6) I added a little button (a way to stitch it onto the shirt) and then hand stitched the flowers onto the shirt. I started in the middle and worked my way out
7) I sewed all five flowers on and it’s done!
Here it is on, I love the look of the flowers!
I love this idea so much, that I made some little clips and headbands for my baby (hopefuly, fingers crossed)
I found that the flowers look better when you used a stretchy fabric compared to cotton. The dark pink was made out stretch pants and the link pink was made out of an onesies.
very cute! and i love that eggplant color!
Adorable. I like that you kept a light touch and didn't over-do it.
very nice! i'm going to have to try this.
That is a great idea to do with those dress/shirts. I've seen a lot of them around on clearance lately. We'd love if you came and linked your project up to our fabric linky party today!
I love doing the same thing. Sure beats spending $10 on a yard of fabric! And I think it forces me to be a little more creative with what I have on hand. Only problem for me, sometimes I just end up with a pile that I am meaning to do something with!
Adorable shirt and the headbands are so cute too.
Gorgeous flowers! It looks like you did it with a serger – clever you!
Those flowers are great! Darling for hair clipS!
Cute! From afar they look like zippers. Very trendy! Love it!
Thanks for linking up, we'll see you next week!
I really like this. We live in a small country town and all buy from the same shops so the clothes look a bit similar, this will jazz up some of the plain clearance t-shirts I bought on sale!!
Thanks,
C
Adorable! Very nice!
I know, I hem up my stuff all the time. Thanks for linking up to Mad Skills Monday!