Your Name; Goth Gardener – 1 entry
What is it and for whom: Conversion of two tops/tunics into another top, two handbags and a mask. All for me!
Pattern used: All self-drafted
Fabrics used: Black linen woven tunic with beadwork, purchased in a charity shop years ago. Black and silver stretch tunic , also purchased in a charity shop long ago. Lining for bags, interfacing and one length of silver piping from stash.
A short description on how you made it/problems overcome/etc.:
The original plan was to completely transform the black and beaded tunic, but there wasn’t quite enough fabric to make another top. However, it combined with the silver fabric from the other top nicely I thought.
This is the new top along with handbag 1 (see below) and the obligatory mask.
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Close up of top (un-ironed). I am proud of the binding!
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The silver piping is from my stash.
I used the bottom of the beaded top to make the yoke. The short sleeves were cut from the sleeves of the tunic. The hems of both the sleeves and hem of the front were the original hems. The binding around the neck and the bottom section were made from the stripey top. As I had used this pattern before it didn't really present any difficulties. I moved the front darts from the side to being vertical as I didn't want to mess up the stripes and I didn't sew the darts until after I'd sewn everything else as I haven't done this pattern using a stretch before, I ended up doing to the front darts twice as the first once weren't enough.
Handbag one.
I wanted to use the v-neck of the tunic to make a matching handbag, but it was a slightly awkward shape. But, while I had the whole pile of fabric dumped spread out I realised that the sleeves of the tunic were kind of handbag shaped:
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The front and back are from the tunic, and I used the v-neck to make an extra pocket on the front, which is useful for holding sanitizer and masks, or if preferred, small animals. The binding and handle I made from the other top. The lining came from stash, and has a zipped credit card pocket, a phone pocket and a hook for attaching keys (yes, I am a bit paranoid about losing things). It is fastened with a metallic clasp.
No real problems with this; I like the open pocket for masks, I wish I had been able to make it a bit bigger, but it's enough for an afternoon of coffee and cake.
But this still left me with fabric.
So I made a second bag from the black and silver fabric:
The other side of the flap is some of the linen from the other top. Innards as per the other bag. I had problems with this as I used cheap interfacing and the whole thing kept slipping and so my stripes don't quite match up (especially on the back, which I'm not showing you). The flap uses the cuff from one of the sleeves where the pattern runs the other way, which I like, except for the mismatched stripes!
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