Happy new week everyone, greetings to every needle worker , how are you all doing? Today's episode of needlework is that of recycling. So have you ever recycled an old clothing into a new one? I know a lot of people must have done that before. How we turn our favourite worn out dresses into some other useful things like rags etc. But in this case I am not talking about worn out dresses or turning them into rags, I am talking about clothing that could still be worn and which is still very much useful.
For today, my submission is an old dress I recycled into another useful clothing. So I recycled my old gown into a short to be worn at home. The old dress no longer fit so instead of just discarding the dress which was still very much fine and lovely, I decided to recycle and reuse it. Looking at how the colour of the material was still very much intact.
I will be showing you without wasting more time how I recycled my old dress (gown) into a new short
Materials Used
- Old gown
- A pair of scissors
- Pins
- Marking chalks
- Ruler
- Measuring tape
- Elastic
- Thread
- Razor
Procedures
What did I do first? Ofcourse I started by losening the old gown, every part of that dress was loosen and all pieces detached and separated.
After detaching and piecing the gown, I spread it out and used part of the gown to make a new folding to mark out my measurements for the short I intended to create out of it. I took a while trying to figure out if the measurements would fit the folded fabric, I mean it's an old fabric so I had to strategically determine the measurements on it so I don't waste the fabric since I wouldn't have another to replace if I were to make any mistakes.
After making the appropriate markings and measurements on the fabric, I cut out the marked and measured parts, that is the front part of the short, which I later placed on the second part of the old fabric to make the back cutting of the short.
I wanted to use elastic for the waist band so I added extra 3 inch allowance to the main short when taking my measurements
I also measured the appropriate inches of the waist band according to the measurements on the main fabric and not just my initial waist measurement, this is because of the extra inches added to the waist.
After all the cutting process was done, I started with the seaming processes, the first part I seamed was the crotch lines, then I did the side seaming before I eventually did the hemming. I also went ahead to attach the waist band to the waist of the short, inserting the elastic as well.
And this was the final result of my short making after sewing and attaching every single part of the cut pieces. This can easily be worn around the house and I like the idea of recycling my old dress into a new short.
That's it for today's needleworkmonday, I hope you like my submission for this week. The idea is that you could recycle your old clothing sometimes and not everything should be discarded.
Do have a lovely new week!
𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫
𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐲! 𝐀 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐳𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫.
𝐀 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬.
𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 "𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞".
𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐲
𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄
𝐈'𝐦 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞?
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