Belt Re-Style, by Adam.

I have been working on a few re-styles this week,
 one of them was this old belt that I turned it into a great bracelet.
Wanna see how?

 Tutorial
Things you Need.

1. Old rope belt
2. Scissors
3. Glue ~ E 6000
4. Wire

 First I carefully took the  belt apart, saving all the pieces.

I cut the rope 12 inches long.

Save this piece of leather

and twisted it together held it with some wire.

I wrapped the leather piece over the wire and glued it with E6000 glue.

I held it there with a clothes pin.

Let dry for 12 hours.

All done.
Now mix with your favorite arm party.
Love, Adam

No Sew,Tee-Shirt Beach Cover Up, DIY.

I saw this awesome DIY from HERE 

I thought this would make a great beach cover up and I just  had to make one.   Mine is just a little different but I love how sexy it turned out. 

Super easy and it only took me about 30 minutes.
Video I did for this
HERE

Tutorial

Things you need

1. Tee shirt (mine is a mens large)
2. Scissors
3. Chalk
4. Paper
5. Ruler
6. Pencil

 Cut a square out of paper. 8 1/2inches by 8 1/2 inches.

 Place the square on the back of the t-shirt.

Draw your lines,

then cut on your lines.

 I cut out the triangle at the top, but I left the collar.

I also cut the triangles out of the side.

Voilà a new beach cover up for the summer. 

Do you dare wear it?

I hope you all have a great Thursday!

Another T-shirt cover up,

HERE.

Lots of <3

Anne

Red Shirt Re-Do

Happy Wednesday Everyone.

I was off today which enabled me to work on a few things that I have been putting off.   To start with, my Son had this beautiful Red Polo Shirt, that he had out grown and I re-made it into a peek a boo shoulder, shirt.  Perfect for the Fourth of July.  This was not super easy , but it wasn't super hard either. Everything went relatively  smoothly, after I figured out how I wanted to re-size it.

Tutorial

Things you need

1. Old shirt, not to big

2. Sewing machine

3. Scissors

4. Thread same color as your shirt

5. Large Safety Pins

6.Chalk

1. I cut out two triangles at the shoulder, once you cut one, use that as a template  for the other side. Be careful not to cut it too big.

2. Turn your shirt inside out .Grab one of the shirts  that fits you perfect. Lay that on top of your shirt and mark with chalk.

3. Pin your shirt with safety pins,  Turn your shirt to the back, see the pleat going down the middle? I pinned that down on both sides. Then try it  on to see how it fits.  If everything fits well, sew where you pinned,  I also stitched around where I cut the triangles out to keep it from fraying.

4. Roll up the sleeves and pin them or stitch them.

5. I also hemmed just the back, to make it shorter that the front.

Two more days until the long weekend!

<3

Anne

Project Re-Style # 2

Yay!!! My second Re-Style project down . If you are just tuning in,  I am doing one Re-Style project a week for a year.  Click here for details. HERE .  I decided to make a faux fur hoodie vest.  It took me about 3 to 4 hours, and  I did mine over the course of two days.  I used one of G's ( My Son) old Hoodies and transformed it.    This does require a bit of sewing on the sewing machine, but it is just  a straight stitch.  All you have to do is  let your imagination take hold, and you can do almost  anything with this.  Here is the tutorial in Black and White, because it was easier to see that way. Let the transformation begin.

Kind of my inspiration

Thing you will need:

1. Old Hoodie

2. Scissors

3. Pins

4. Sewing Machine

5. About 1 and 1/2 yards of faux fur

(I used a blanket I found on sale cheap.)

6. Thread

7. Imagination

 
Tutorial

Take an old Hoodie, this one the zipper was broken.

Cut off the sleeves.

Cut off the bottom band.

Cut the Zipper off  both ends of the bottom band.

Cut the  Zipper off the front of Hoodie

Hem edge of the bottom band.

Measure where I have marked with a dotted line, for the fur.

Cut the fur about 4 to 5 inches wide, one long strip the length you measured for the above photo.

Pin the fur, RIGHT SIDES TOGETHER, to the edge of the vest, where you cut the zipper off,  all the way around the hood and back down to the other side.  As Marked.

I pulled out this tie (as marked above), because I wanted to reinsert it when I was done, and I did not want to  accidentally sew it into the fur.

Sew along the edge All the way around, as marked.   Take your time this furry stuff  was just a little harder to deal with.

Fold the fur back over to the inside of the garment and pin all the way around.  Then sew where the white dotted line is.

 
 Be careful around the hood not to sew shut the space where the tie goes, if you want to reinsert it.

 

Place the bottom band right sides together back on the bottom of the  garment, Pin and sew where it is marked.

Grab a big safety pin, Pin  it to the tie and reinsert it  back into the hood( if you want to, not necessary) I did.

All done !
You can iron the seam at the bottom band, to make it lie flat. 
If you have any questions, please email me.




2 down 50 to go 

  I am going to try and do one every Monday.

Have a Great Day Everyone.