Sewing Craze

At the moment I have been overtaken by the Sewing Monster.  I have a big convention to go to, and I have no clothes for it or money for clothes, as I have been ill lately.  My solution: re-purposing I thought I would share some of the ideas I've gotten from Pinterest and various blogs about re-purposing clothing to make awesome thingies.  Hopefully I will get up the energy to actually do these things, and I will definitely share the finished projects, as well as some of my own I've come up with.  If it works.

Here are the links and some photos.

Tutorials:

Re-fashioned tee shirts

There are 25 ideas, and tutorials here.

Sweatshirt Liposuction

Cool, cool, cool. And the great thing about this one is if I mess it up a little I can always use it for work.

Tye Front Shirt

There is no tutorial for making this, but I think it would be easy(ish) to make.

Infinity Lace and Tee Shirt Scarf

 Easy Fix for a Dress Shirt That Doesn't Fit:

Braided Infinity Scarf

Color Blocked Dress

I think I could make this out of tee shirts. 

And that's what I've got so far.  Hopefully I can make some of these. There is a thrift store that sells a bag of clothes for $10! I'm going and stuffing as many tees as I can it that bag and get to sewing. And hope no disasters occur.

March is Looking Up

After I gave up on hats for the rest of this month I got a lot of things accomplished. Its shocking!
This is one of the summer dresses I've been working on, modeled by my dress-form friend, Lula-Mae. I kind of hate the print on this fabric now.

And here is a crocheted yellow jumper top I just finished.

And My Half-done Dory (terrible picture. The white blur at the end is supposed to be a yellow tail.) I'm charting this as I go, so maybe I will post it after I finish it.

And that has been my March. Yay April!

Finished, Unfinished, and Destroyed

March is a horrible month for yarn projects. It hates me!

I finished the Kiddie kitten hat I started for a friends kiddie (it's awesome). The pattern can be found at www.kittyville.com. It's for big people though, so you will have to scale it down if you want it to be kid-sized. The ears and pom-poms are pink.

I killed the Lidsville hat I was making. Thrice. It's a great pattern ( in Son of Stitch'n Bitch book), but I apparently do not have the magic hat power needed to recreate it. After the third failed attempt I decided to accept my defeat.

I started knitting an amigurumi Dory from Finding Nemo for my fantastically awesome friend. You know how you get an idea and you say to yourself " she is gonna LOVE that"? This is one of those things. I laugh when I'm knitting it.

The socks I started somehow turned into ballet slippers. It gave me a great idea for some sweet hippie slipper/shoe things. I wonder if I put leather on the bottom as a sole, could I wear them out and about?

I've also been drafting a few summer dresses. I guess I didn't realise how easy it is to make a dress when you have a dress form to drape it on. SCORE. I finished the mock-up for two, which I did with old sheets, and now All I have to do is take them apart and use them for patterns.

All of this after I finish stuffed Dory. And tailoring two dresses and a pair of shorts for my homie. And a pair of pants for my extremely short sister.

Maybe the problem here isn't the month of March. Maybe its my inability to finish projects before I start new ones? Naw. It's definitely March.

Also, I love home-made stouts.