Heat and economy getting you down... Try a refashion!!

The coolest thing about a hot summer is not the sweet dip in the pool, the icy ocean water after the hot sand on the beach or even the refreshing feel of air conditioning hanging out on your couch.  Nay!  The coolest thing about a hot summer is refashioning unworn garments.  Every go through your clothes and really pay attention to how many of those items you actually wear?  Women are collectors.  We collect memories, family members, knick knacks, fabric, trinkets, photos, letters, dvds, children's craft projects, holiday cards, etc.  We also collect clothes.  Its a horrible habit really because most people have little variation in what they wear.  The same 20 or so items mixed and matched will largely make up a season's attire.  But how many items fill your closets and drawers?  Hundreds.  The truth is clothes that aren't the most comfortable or most endearing or most dazzling fall into the back of the closet, never to be seen again, until they are so out of style they hit the local Goodwill bank.

Enter refashions!  Summer refashions are just easier because cold weather refashions tend to be a lot of adding-to instead of taking-from.  This isn't a bad thing it just adds extra time and resources.

Turn a long sleeve Tshirt into a sleeveless, ruffly piece of summer happiness:
http://www.madebylex.com/2009/07/t-shirt-refashion-into-ruffle-madness.html

Give a little shape to those A-line teepee shaped tops from a few years ago:
http://www.planetjune.com/blog/refashioning-an-unflattering-top/

Chop off the slacks you've walked on the hem too many times (don't you hate wearing the short-shoes with the long-pants) for the perfect pair of summer pedal pushers.

Clean out the DH's (or significant male in your life, brother, boyfriend, hubby, adult son, whomever) closet as well to turn his old blah dress shirt into super cute skirt:
http://label-free.blogspot.com/2008/09/mens-shirt-refashion-part-one.html

This week I'm playing with refashions.  They're economical and fun, usually work up pretty quickly and give you a garment you'll actually wear as opposed to all those you don't.

So be green, be thrifty, be creative and make cool stuff that I can get ideas from!  I'll post later this week with my creations.

Welcome beautiful people, to my new blog!

Welcome all!  A little about me.  I started sewing when I was a little girl, it's always been around me.  You know the story, mom sews, grandmother sews, etc.  My mother was a costume seamstress for several years and while I picked up the basics, if I ever really _needed_ something I'd have her do it for me, I can be honest, she's just sooo much better.

Then a few years ago a got a new sewing machine.  I did well to complete a project every few months, but sometimes it was more like 6 or 7 months.  A while back the bug hit and I wanted to sew.  I couldn't think of any way better to express (otherwise read botch) my creative side.  You see I'm a software engineer by trade so the majority of my adult life has been spent inside a little computer.  Then an interesting thing happened in 2009.  I lost my job.  The ole economy just kicked my industry in the pants, as it did so many others, and I thought, what better time to drag out the machine and do something constructive with my time at home.  Well, it stuck, and here I am.  So enjoy, hopefully I'll keep up with it.