Hello again! I’ve prepared an easy DIY tutorial for you. You all have probably seen the famous Miu Miu sequin socks. Well I’ve decided to try something a little bit different, but in the same theme.
I thought of embellishing an old pair of sandals and cam up with these.
You can check out the full tutorial on Refashion Co-op.
xx Nina Mia http://nina-mia.blogspot.co.uk/
I’m not sure if I’ll move ahead with this refashion but I wanted to show you all one of the items on my drawing board. Maybe it will inspire you. This is simply a slip turned upside down so that the elastic waist is at the bottom and the bottom is at the top. I’m trying it as a one shoulder because I like how it drapes across the torso of my dress form this way. I’ve pinned a couple of pieces of lace to make wide straps.
modest top - "blush" is just the color of this one
Sometimes I go in spurts. Today is an “idea” day – maybe tomorrow will be a sewing day.
Happy refashioning!
Last weekend a friend and I drove to a nearby island to do a walking workout (aka – window shopping). While strolling down Main Street I saw these guitars in the window of a gift shop and stopped to take a couple photos.
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Aren’t they beautiful? This got me to thinking what else could be done with old license plates. Apparently there are quite a few eco-artists out there using license plates as their media of choice.
 Aaron Foster |
 Recycled Art Co |
 Stress The Seams |
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Rosenberry Rooms |
Or how about a purse made out of license plates?
Recycled Purse
Or a bracelet?
Stress The Seams
So would you like to know how to make a license plate purse? Craftster has the tute for how to create the license plate purse below.
Happy crafting!
Once again I forgot to take the before pic. This is a similar dress with wider straps.
A friend gave me this little sundress because it had a light blue stain at the bottom of the skirt. She thought I’d slash off the skirt and make it into a cute top, but I had other ideas for this sundress that I didn’t tell her reminded me of something Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm would wear. It had worked for her with her straight blonde hair, but me with my red curls would look like I’d just stepped off the farm.
I had a pair of little boys swim trunks that was covered with black velvet leaves and flowers. This was the choice for a little boys swim trunks? Go figure! That’s probably why I was able to pick them up for .25 at a garage sale. The little boy they were intended for probably refused to wear them, as any little boy would.
I bought them knowing that I would use the leaves and flowers on something so I had already started cutting them out and had a large pile of them by the time I was given this sundress. I popped the sundress on my dress form and started playing around with the velvet foliage.
My first thought was to use the velvet foliage to create a cap sleeve, but the velvet was too stiff to fall how I wanted it to. So I removed the flowers and covered the entire bodice area. But I didn’t like that either. In the end I decided to cover half of the bodice and wrap the foliage around the back of the dress to just peek out in front at the waist. Oh and I removed the little tie that formed a bow in the back. My theory is that once you can wear heels without falling over you’re too old to wear a dress with a bow in the back. I wanted to make this a zero-waste refashion so I used the ties to make straps for the top of the dress and snipped off a bit from the end of one tie to cover the blue stain at the bottom of the dress.
new bodice
sweet little tie-back - gotta go
tie-back becomes new straps
After securing the new straps to the bodice I cut away the excess and unpicked this length of strap so that it was essentially a piece of bias tape. I needed this to cover the blue stain at the bottom of the dress.
hand stitched stain cover up
A quick bit of stitching to cover the blue stain and my new sundress is ready to wear.
Ooops! Stitched the front of the dress to the back of the dress while hand-sewing my patch.
Some quick action with a seam ripper and my dress is now ready to wear.
Check out lower left of dress - no more blue stain!