Reuse, Recycle and Repurpose
I hope you enjoyed the first issue of DIY on a Budget, The last few weeks have flown by, in my sewing lessons we have been working on children's dresses. As part of the course we needed to design and paint the dress. I decided on unicorns as they are magical and I'm sure all little girls must love them. The dress will be finished after next week’s lesson. I will post a picture in next month’s edition.
Fabric can be expensive to buy, so I've been looking at ways to reuse, recycle, and repurpose what I have in my home. I’ve been sorting through mine and my family's clothes which are too small or we just don't wear. From the clothes I've collected I'm going to turn them into something new. (Well new-ish). I turned a couple of dresses into skirts to practice, once I felt confidant I tackled a harder project. I got brave and turned jeans and a maxi dress into a long skirt it was very stressful!!! For anyone with experience I'm sure it would have been very simple. I haven't got an over locker machine, I'm convinced the skirt would have been so much quicker and easier to make with one, as the sheer fabric and lining was all originally over locker to stop the fraying. I hemmed all the fabric then used a zigzag stitch on top to make double sure it wouldn't fray. Here is what I done step by step First I measured my daughter, so I knew how long the skirt needed to be, I measured from her waist down to her ankles, it was 30 inches in total.