Men’s Shirt To Woman’s Blouse Refashion Learn how to refashion your old clothes! Refashioning is perfect if you want to be more eco-friendly in your sewing and make creative, unique garments! And if you’re a sewing beginner, you can learn a lot about how clothes are made by refashioning your old clothes. Below are 10 tips on how to refashion your clothes if you’re just getting started with refashioning. 1. Pretend It’s Fabric Instead of refashioning a piece of clothing, you can just treat your old clothes as a piece of fabric. Just cut the garment open along the seams. Then treat this as if i ..read more

For my refashioned crochet tablecloth dress I used two vintage circle cotton crochet tablecloths: One for the circle skirt and one for the kimono sleeve blouse. This is already the third refashion of the crochet tablecloth dress but I finally like how it turned out! At first I made the crochet tablecloths into a separate skirt and blouse. But it never stayed in place. And I also didn’t have a slip that I could wear underneath. Click on the link below to see how the skirt looked before the refashion! Related: DIY Fast & Easy Crochet Skirt – From A Tablecloth! So this time I made a fi ..read more

I’m currently making some historybounding or cottagecore dresses. The dresses are inspired by historical fashion. However, they are still modern enough so that I can wear them today as summer dresses. This is one of my historybounding dresses: It’s inspired by 18th century dresses. My modern 18th century dress has a separate bodice and skirt. For the bodice I used my usual 18th century stays pattern. However, I shortened the pattern so that the bodice ends just below the waist. Related: Modern 18th Century Recycled Denim Stays The bodice is lightly boned and closes at the center front with ..read more

Turning jeans into a denim skirt is very popular at the moment. But there’s not just one way how to turn old jeans into a cute skirt: you can make a 6- or 8-gore denim skirt, a pleated denim skirt, a distressed denim skirt … And you can also embellish your DIY refashioned denim skirt with beads, fabric applique, metal chains and fabric paint! 9 Creative Ways To Turn Jeans Into A Skirt Click on the links below the photos. -> How To Refashion Jeans Into A 6- Or 8-Gore Skirt – DIY Denim Graffiti Skirt This refashioned denim skirt looks like a real denim skirt not like most jeans-turned-skirt ..read more

Turn an old, ugly, ill-fitting cardigan into a cute vintage cardigan any Gibson Girl would wear proudly! Knit sweaters and cardigans were a popular choice of Gibson Girls for casual wear and sports around 1900. Related: The Edwardian Sweater Girl + 25 Free Edwardian Sweater Patterns This is already my third Edwardian sweater refashion but this time I refashioned a cardigan instead of a sweater. Apart from the button closure, this Gibson Girl cardigan refashion is very similar to my last refashioned Edwardian-style sweater. Like my last sweater refashion, this cardigan also has a V-neck and ..read more

One of the main topics on my blog is the repurposing, upcycling and reusing of old clothes. If clothes no longer fit or I no longer like them I refashion them instead of throwing them away. Like almost everyone I have old jeans in my house that I’ve turned into new clothes over the years or reused for other projects. Here’s a list of all my jeans upcyling projects. 18 Incredible Ways To Repurpose Your Old Jeans Click on the links below the photos for the blog posts. -> How To Refashion Jeans Into A Panel Skirt -> Modern Recycled Denim Corset Top -> DIY Recycled Denim Baseball – T ..read more

How to make a graffiti denim skirt from a pair of jeans – easy sewing tutorial! And what’s best: the finished skirt looks like a denim skirt and not like a refashioned jeans! There are a lot of jeans-to-skirt refashions out there. But this jeans-to-skirt refashion tutorial is different! Most denim skirts that are refashioned from jeans look like they were a jeans before. Because most refashion tutorials tell you to rip the seams and just sew the fabric pieces together again! What was the crotch of the jeans before makes a strange pattern piece at the front and back of most refashioned denim s ..read more

Inspired by Edwardian sweaters, I refashioned another modern ill-fitting sweater into an Edwardian-style sweater! Related: The Edwardian Sweater Girl + 25 Free Edwardian Sweater Patterns The Sweater – Before For my DIY sweater refashion, I used an old, dark gray, partly wool sweater. It was just a baggy, oversized sweater. And it wasn’t even a fashionable oversized sweater: It just didn’t fit me at all! Besides, dark gray isn’t my color. But since it was an 80% wool sweater, I thought I’d turn it into another Edwardian-style sweater. Because I loved how my Edwardian-style sweater that I ref ..read more

I like to reuse old clothes: One old piece of clothing less in the landfill and a new beautiful denim corset top instead! Double yay! For these modern 18th century-inspired recycled denim stays I used one of my old jeans. Denim is a strong twill-weave fabric suitable as corset fabric. Because it’s a two-layer corset, it’s already so stiff that I didn’t even had to add boning. My recycled denim corset has partly historically accurate details – such as the lacing hooks, the hand-sewn eyelets and the naturally dyed lacing cords – and partly modern details – such as the machine seams and the unb ..read more

A simple men’s button-down shirt refashion! I love to turn old men’s shirts into tops and blouses for me. This one had yellow armpit stains but I liked the pale blue color. Therefore I decided to refashion it into a blouse! Related: Another Men’s Shirt Refashion The Pattern I used a basic blouse pattern for my men’s button-down shirt refashion. The pattern is self-drafted to my measurements. However, you could also use a well-fitting top or blouse as pattern. I placed the pattern so that I could cut away the yellow stains! Related: Handkerchief To Top Refashion Tutorial Turquoise Facing ..read more