Tales from the Sewing Vixen

It has been a while since I have shown some of my work I did with a bit of repurposing. I love to find new ways to use a piece of fabric or clothing instead of just junking it or turning into rags.

I made a few dresses for Amelie, and she loves them. I even made myself a little something (Yay)

I came across this red and white western shirt and thought I should do something with it. Initially the idea was to make it a sleeveless blouse to wear with a skirt, shorts, whatever. But the fabric was so thin, I was to scared to try to remove the massive pockets from what would be my breasts.

So when I started cutting, I realized it was the perfect cut for shorts. I Cut the middle snaps off and put them aside, and then started sewing away. About 45 minutes later, Amelie had a new pair of bubble shorts which only required thread and elastic.

I've been wanting to try out a onesie dress for my daughter and had a few spare white onesies lying around so that is how this project came about. I had these scraps of t-shirt material that was begging to me crafted into something so I started constructing different flowers that are similar to a mum or something of that sort. I did them in different colors and then sewed them by hand onto the onesie. For the dress part of this, I had a bottom half of a t-shirt so I attached that to some elastic, gathered and sewed away. I did everything by hand, therefore it took forever!! I also added some flowers to the skirt and used green floss to embellish the look of grass or stems. I am pretty happy with the outcome and the crispness of the all white. This just may a new favorite. I can't wait to get some pictures of the model in it.