Make More From a Shirt 2

 Hello Readers. I am not a huge fan of button-down shirts. They are usually stiff and feel confining. And I need to be free! So, I cut one into pieces and made better use of it. Let me show you.

Before and after.

This shirt was fine but I never wore it. I decided to make some other things from it.

I made a dickie yesterday.

After I cut the dickie out of the shirt I had plenty of shirt left over. I cut off the bottom of the shirt. I wanted to get rid of the shoulders and sleeves.

I also wanted to add some elastic to the top of this piece to get a waistband. This is going to be sort of a skirt.

I made sure the elastic was the size for my waist and I stitched it to the top of the skirt piece.

This is the finished "skirt".

If I were to wear just the skirt with the dickie it looks crazy but that wasn't what I wanted to do.

I wanted to wear these 2 pieces under other clothes.

I like the shirt cut up and worn under casual or dressy clothes.

This would be so comfortable and fun for a holiday party. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.

***Year End Update- This skirt piece is great over leggings. I like it that way.

Flowy Lace Jacket; The Sequel

 Hello Readers. I don't like to waste things so when I refashion and cut up a garment. I always try to use every part of that garment if I can. I am not throwing away good fabric. That's crazy. When I shortened the lace jacket last time I had a lot of left over lace fabric to use for a second project. 

Before and after. And after.

This was just really lovely but I needed it to be shorter for work. 

I gave it a cut in the middle and made a shorter jacket. But the leftovers are going to be a very pretty slip/skirt extender. 

The edges here that go up and down the center are going to be the focus.

I turned the fabric side ways. The lace edges that were in the center/front is now the hemline. The slip was very narrow but it had a lot of give and stretch to it so it fit really well. It has a horizontal seam in the middle but that isn't going to show when I wear it so I am not worried about it. 

It needed an elastic waistband so I grabbed some very basic white elastic. (I think this is leftover from mask making in Covid times.) I didn't try to make the waistband pretty or fancy because it will never show either.

Here it is. I planned for this to just peek out from under skirts and dresses that feel a bit too short. It's pretty and the edge at the hem makes it look nicely finished. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.

***Year End Update- I love this lacey slip. It is lovely to me.