hello! I’ve made a new outfit by refashioning some other previously worn old things… from a skirt and old jeans, I’ve made a new/old tunic top and some new/old shorts. I realise I probably I should be using some of the new fabric already in my stash instead of “already used” fabric – truthfully I am not very sensible a lot of the time – however if I really like a fabric but not the garment so much then I do feel like it just makes sense to reuse the latter if I can. Actually, I have been making a number of things lately, and from my stash! but just haven’t got around to taking photos or blogging them yet. For some reason, I’m finding taking photos to be the biggest challenge now.
Anyway, previously I had this skirt, and some of Mum’s old jeans.
I really love this fabric, but it was ultimately a bit on the flimsy side to be a skirt really. I am, obviously, much happier with the new things. For the new top, I partially used a pattern from the Japanese pattern book, Stylish Dress Book, but just for the yoke.
I stitched up the pockets on the old skirt, cut out armholes and stitched it to the yoke. The armholes are bound with the same linen. The denim yoke is cut from old jeans, and lined with indigo-dyed linen.
I made the denim shorts using a heavily modified Pietra shorts pattern by Closet Core patterns. My version is a lot more A-shaped than the original and there is absolutely no elastication at all.
My legs are a little wider and I tapered off all pieces toward the top substantially to make it close fitting about my waist, and inserted an invisible zip in the centre back seam.
The facings and hem edges are bound with pretty gingham printed cotton, leftover from a very recently finished dress.
I removed the pockets from the jeans, unpicked all the old topstitching thread, and re-stitched these to the shorts back, and had another pocket from another pair of old jeans that I stitched to the tunic top. I had just enough burnt orange to finish the yoke and pocket on my new tunic top, and used a vibrant yellow for the shorts. These, along with the jeans in the first place, were inherited from Mum.
My littlest grandson G enthusiastically rushed over to join me modelling here … he was so cute and funny! You just have to imagine his huge delighted smile here!
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