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Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021

sewminds

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2021, 04:57:07 AM »
Pretty uneventful my end. Sourced some old jeans and washed a couple of pairs my tush no longer let past. Well, they're ready anyway for 'something'. Maybe I can still use in the next challenge.
Sew it needs juice!

sewminds

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2021, 05:00:22 AM »
@realale Pretty spiffing! Love the pocket on the back!  :thumbsup:
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Mick

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2021, 10:02:38 AM »
My entry is finished, just got to find time to sort the photos out.

Flobear

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2021, 13:46:57 PM »
Mine is 85% done. Or 80% if I decide to add pocket/s.
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SewRuthieSews

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #34 on: July 01, 2021, 07:26:26 AM »
Ok its time to stop sewing and take a photo to share with us.
Make sure to post a 'before' picture together with your entry here.
All entries should be posted by July 6th in this thread.

Flobear

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #35 on: July 01, 2021, 07:49:41 AM »
Done! Just need to press and photograph.
Will do later as I have workmen arriving in half an hour to lay the base for the greenhouse.
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Catllar

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #36 on: July 03, 2021, 17:55:38 PM »
Looking forward to seeing these -very impressive so far!
If life gives you lemons, add to gin and tonic !

Flobear

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #37 on: July 04, 2021, 11:11:36 AM »
OK. Here we are. Flo's summer shirt.



Dress is viscose fabric which is smooth, cool and drapey but a slippery customer. Loved the colours and patterns.  Spent ages looking for a suitable viscose online to use for the inserts and details.

Bought new pattern for loose shirt as old one very cut up and fiddled with. It has enormous double pleat at the back so I cut back in half and added narrower insert.

Used buttons and b'holes at side of skirt for CF - luckily it was pattern-matched. Back had to be put on upside down to be pattern-matched. Sides - no chance of matching!
Had to unpick numerous rows of shirred smocking as I need the front bodice to cut the yoke out in one piece.



Made little inserts for the pockets to pick up on back insert. Also bound edges to reflect armhole edges. Oh, and I thought it would be more interesting to cut pockets sideways so the pattern went up and down instead of across.

« Last Edit: July 12, 2021, 18:42:41 PM by Iminei »
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justpottering

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #38 on: July 04, 2021, 15:43:47 PM »
Xx
« Last Edit: July 08, 2021, 03:49:11 AM by justpottering »
JP
Dressmaker - but first......tea

Elnnina

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #39 on: July 04, 2021, 16:31:26 PM »
Well done to both Flobear and Justpottering for your make overs they are brilliant, now enjoy wearing them.

Mick

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #40 on: July 05, 2021, 21:52:08 PM »
Mick's entry for the competition.

Some pot towels, a table napkin and half a ripped quilt cover.

The pot towels are very heavy duty things, meant for catering and restaurant kitchens. They have a hard life, and when they get shabby and stained enough, they are "retired" by the commercial laundry that looks after them.
Table napkin is from the same source.
The quilt cover should need no explanation.


The other essential part of the project. A rusty, cut-steel sign that I bought from a junk shop years ago.


Soaked the napkin in salt water, layed the sign on top, and left alone for a couple of days to rust.
The salt makes the metal rust faster and also acts as a fixative for the rust to dye the cloth.


The finished item.


The pattern used was a free download for a sweatshirt. It was meant to be sewed from stretch fabric with ribbed cuffs and waistband. So it took quite a bit of hacking about to get it work in the pot-towel woven cotton, and with the quilt cover made into a full lining.
I didn't quite get it right and had to let the quarter zip in to make it a bit easier to get on and off.
(I'm blaming the pattern, ok? Nothing to do with me being a bit of a fat old git, these days.)
Gave the unlined garment a light tea-bag dye to take the whiteness off a bit.
The zip came from an old pair of jeans my daughter was trying to throw away.




 

« Last Edit: July 12, 2021, 18:42:20 PM by Iminei »

Lachica

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #41 on: July 05, 2021, 22:12:44 PM »
That's great @Mick. Great reuse and I like your use of the rusty sign. How come it's not reversed though? Did the rust go all the way through the fabric?
Mary
2020 stash: not gonna count, not gonna feel guilty.

Mick

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #42 on: July 05, 2021, 22:32:41 PM »
That's great @Mick

....How come it's not reversed though? Did the rust go all the way through the fabric?


No, but the cuts go all the way through the sign.
So by putting it with the "wrong" side down on the fabric, the dyed image comes out the right way round.

Yeah, I know, and it took me two goes to get it right. Good job I had a few spare napkins... :facepalm:

sewminds

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #43 on: July 05, 2021, 23:15:40 PM »
@Mick ..personally not into Harley's but that's up there for thinking outside the box. Brilliant idea!
Sew it needs juice!

Flobear

Re: Refashion & Upcycle competition - 1-30 June 2021
« Reply #44 on: July 06, 2021, 07:18:12 AM »
Very creative @Mick  :thumbsup:
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