Hello everyone! Here's a quick tute/idea for improving a boring skirt or top that's been haunting your closet. I bought this Gap skirt for £4 in a charity shop in Romsey. I wasn't sure whether it would fit Savi, but I got seriously lucky - it fits perfectly! But it was a little boring... so as I was flipping through my old Boden catalogue, I found a skirt I had marked way back in August:
See that little flower on the bottom left? When I saw that, a little light bulb went on:
What you'll need:
- scraps of 3 kinds of fabric
- Bondaweb
- shapes for circle, flowers and leaves - I used a big mug for the circle, 2 sizes of flower cookie cutters and I freehand drew the leaves
- standard sewing kit
So, draw your shapes, fuse them to your fabric, blah blah, then put the stem, circle and leaves on:
Attach it how you want - I used an embroidery hoop, embroidery foot and dropped the feed dogs. Then after I did the circle, I put on the flowers one at a time. For the stem I used the Bondaweb tape. Did 2 extra small flowers on the other part of the front, sewed 3 cheap buttons on, too. All easy stuff.
And here she is wearing it! Cute, right? She's very happy with it, so I think I did alright for £4 and some scraps...
Jenna
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Very cute! I like how you mixed the three different types of fabric. A new skirt for the new year!
ReplyDeleteNice idea, looks great! :) x
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