We are over half way through National Sewing Month. Here's one sewing project I have been working on in the last couple weeks and a good reminder that not every refashion goes as planned. You think you're going to make one thing and the sewing gods have other plans. This skirt started out as a very large shirt that I bought at the Goodwill last summer.
I took the sleeve cuffs and collar off and then ripped the sleeve and side seams. I planned to make a dress using the same pattern as I had used for an earlier blue and white polka-dot dress. I decided not to line the dress and that left me just enough fabric to cut out all the pieces.
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Here are the pieces I had to work with after disassembling the shirt.
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A sleeve becomes bodice pieces
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I did not follow the grainline when laying out the pieces. I was just trying to fit them onto the fabric. When I got them all cut out, I spent about 2 hours trying to put the bodice together. When I finally tried it on, the armholes were too small, there was not enough fabric to put a zipper in the back, and there was puckering in the yoke. I didn't have any extra fabric to make changes or start over, so I scrapped the top and just sewed the bottom into a skirt. I had worked the original shirt front buttons into the front of the skirt, but I needed to add bias tape for the waist and then a fastener for the waist. It's not what I set out to make, but it was a good learning project. How are your sewing projects coming along?
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| Finished skirt |
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