the other upcycled dress!
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I mentioned it in the same post from the other day– it’s a t-shirt from a tech conference a few years ago, with a large bold image of a monkey (a mandrill? ah yes that answers the question, Mandrill is a MailChimp product and they were always shilling at the conferences Dude used to go to) on the front and no text on it.
So I just cut the neckline out and blanket-stitched the raw edge this left behind over the course of a day or two at work while waiting for various things to load, and cut it into a crop-top length and let it sit for literally like a year, and then last month I took the waistband from the skirt I cut for the black and pink t-shirt-corset dress from yesterday, and attached it to a circle skirt I cut out of an old bedsheet using an online circle skirt calculator, which I didn’t cut the bottom of and left handkerchief-hemmed, and also I attached pockets on the side seams made from the sleeves of a t-shirt I cut up a while ago, and hand-sewed them into place because I couldn’t follow any of the tutorials on how to put pockets into side seams.
Anyhow. I hand-sewed the elastic waistband to the skirt because I was traveling and it was easier, and then I hand-sewed the skirt to the crop top of the shirt because sewing elastic is a nightmare so I do it by hand faster anyway, and then I did another layer of hand-stitching around the waistband to reinforce the connection between the skirt and waistband largely because I was stuck at work and had time and wanted to practice whatever that stitch is called, and I was going to hand-hem it and then was like no fuck that it’s waaay too much yardage and needs trimming too, so I did it on the serger instead, because the hem was where I’d roughly chopped out the elastic of the fitted sheet and so it was crinkly and uneven and the serger has a knife blade in it so it’ll trim stuff nice and straight for you. I still might roll up the hem and sew it nicer, but I don’t mind having the raw serged edge show.
So– photos, and I’m doing a more impressionistic kind of photography of the details, sorry…
you can see why i think dresses with a strongly defined waist area tend to flatter me more, though I am trying to get out of any mindset where “flattering” is important– still, I tend to tug at loose dresses and don’t like how they sit.
POCKETS, deep ones
two layers of waistband stitching, from a really forbidding angle
i am always so awkward in photos. The drawback with the sheets as skirt is that the microfiber polyester sheets stick to my cotton leggings something awful, so that’s an action shot. i either need to wear a slip or wear slippery leggings. which i do own, so. anyhow, the skirt doesn’t hang, it clings, and i’ve got to sort that out. honestly i think i need to make myself some half-slips because this isn’t the only dress i have this problem with.
also i think there’s a stain on the skirt somehow already, so if i wash it and that doesn’t come out, i’m going to have to screenprint or hand-stencil some shit on there. i’m not a huge fan of solid colors anyway, so we’ll see.
Anyhow. I’m apparently a walking Mailchimp billboard. It’s cool.
I mentioned it in the same post from the other day– it’s a t-shirt from a tech conference a few years ago, with a large bold image of a monkey (a mandrill? ah yes that answers the question, Mandrill is a MailChimp product and they were always shilling at the conferences Dude used to go to) on the front and no text on it.
So I just cut the neckline out and blanket-stitched the raw edge this left behind over the course of a day or two at work while waiting for various things to load, and cut it into a crop-top length and let it sit for literally like a year, and then last month I took the waistband from the skirt I cut for the black and pink t-shirt-corset dress from yesterday, and attached it to a circle skirt I cut out of an old bedsheet using an online circle skirt calculator, which I didn’t cut the bottom of and left handkerchief-hemmed, and also I attached pockets on the side seams made from the sleeves of a t-shirt I cut up a while ago, and hand-sewed them into place because I couldn’t follow any of the tutorials on how to put pockets into side seams.
Anyhow. I hand-sewed the elastic waistband to the skirt because I was traveling and it was easier, and then I hand-sewed the skirt to the crop top of the shirt because sewing elastic is a nightmare so I do it by hand faster anyway, and then I did another layer of hand-stitching around the waistband to reinforce the connection between the skirt and waistband largely because I was stuck at work and had time and wanted to practice whatever that stitch is called, and I was going to hand-hem it and then was like no fuck that it’s waaay too much yardage and needs trimming too, so I did it on the serger instead, because the hem was where I’d roughly chopped out the elastic of the fitted sheet and so it was crinkly and uneven and the serger has a knife blade in it so it’ll trim stuff nice and straight for you. I still might roll up the hem and sew it nicer, but I don’t mind having the raw serged edge show.
So– photos, and I’m doing a more impressionistic kind of photography of the details, sorry…
you can see why i think dresses with a strongly defined waist area tend to flatter me more, though I am trying to get out of any mindset where “flattering” is important– still, I tend to tug at loose dresses and don’t like how they sit.
POCKETS, deep ones
two layers of waistband stitching, from a really forbidding angle
i am always so awkward in photos. The drawback with the sheets as skirt is that the microfiber polyester sheets stick to my cotton leggings something awful, so that’s an action shot. i either need to wear a slip or wear slippery leggings. which i do own, so. anyhow, the skirt doesn’t hang, it clings, and i’ve got to sort that out. honestly i think i need to make myself some half-slips because this isn’t the only dress i have this problem with.
also i think there’s a stain on the skirt somehow already, so if i wash it and that doesn’t come out, i’m going to have to screenprint or hand-stencil some shit on there. i’m not a huge fan of solid colors anyway, so we’ll see.
Anyhow. I’m apparently a walking Mailchimp billboard. It’s cool.
