refatshioning
Sep. 3rd, 2019 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ughhh every blog that’s about refashioning clothes without fail as step 1 is like “tee hee “”””””borrow”””””” a big shirt from your hubby/bf!”
I have a huge sack of t-shirts that I want to make into dresses to wear. I don’t wear a ton of t-shirts, and of the ones I have many of them are just too short to wear for general purpose t-shirt-ing. I’ve made dresses out of several, using a combination of techniques but almost all consisting of just… cutting the shirt off right below my boobs, adding a wide elastic waistband, and then sticking a skirt on the bottom. Which is fine and works ok but sometimes winds up sort of unflattering. And i dunno, I just want to mix it up a little– I have a few shirts where there’s a design I like on the front and it goes down below my natural waist, so I’d like to keep the front of the shirt intact.
But I can’t find any good patterns, everything is predicated on cutting down a massively too-large shirt, and nothing assumes that I’m working from a small shirt and some scraps.
So I guess I gotta come up with something, and lord knows I have plenty of fabric. I’ve experimented in the past with combining t-shirt and non-stretch fabrics, and that works if you leave yourself enough ease and are strategic about it. But I just. I gotta come up with patterns myself, because none of the refashion bloggers who dominate search results have much of a concept of starting with a too-*small* garment.
Ah well. I’ll figure something out.
ughhh every blog that’s about refashioning clothes without fail as step 1 is like “tee hee “”””””borrow”””””” a big shirt from your hubby/bf!”
I have a huge sack of t-shirts that I want to make into dresses to wear. I don’t wear a ton of t-shirts, and of the ones I have many of them are just too short to wear for general purpose t-shirt-ing. I’ve made dresses out of several, using a combination of techniques but almost all consisting of just… cutting the shirt off right below my boobs, adding a wide elastic waistband, and then sticking a skirt on the bottom. Which is fine and works ok but sometimes winds up sort of unflattering. And i dunno, I just want to mix it up a little– I have a few shirts where there’s a design I like on the front and it goes down below my natural waist, so I’d like to keep the front of the shirt intact.
But I can’t find any good patterns, everything is predicated on cutting down a massively too-large shirt, and nothing assumes that I’m working from a small shirt and some scraps.
So I guess I gotta come up with something, and lord knows I have plenty of fabric. I’ve experimented in the past with combining t-shirt and non-stretch fabrics, and that works if you leave yourself enough ease and are strategic about it. But I just. I gotta come up with patterns myself, because none of the refashion bloggers who dominate search results have much of a concept of starting with a too-*small* garment.
Ah well. I’ll figure something out.
