Yay fabric!

Hey guys,

There's this shop near my house run by this little old lady and she sells lots of random stuff like lace and elastic, etc. Well anyway, I went in there to pick up some interfacing yesterday and she had this massive pile of fabric remnants on the floor in the corner and she gave me a plastic bag and was like "You can have whatever you can fit in the bag for 10 bucks". Woo! 

A lot of it was really old and kinda dated material but I managed to pick out a few good bits (some of them were 3.5m+!). I picked out some black and white stretch lace (you can't see the pattern on the black lace very well, it's in the bottom left corner), some plain white cotton knit, nearly 4m of thin ribbed blue knit, a couple pieces of random cotton, some black lining and in the back there's a big piece of wooly weavey stuff (gonna reupholster a chair with that one).

I had a go at making some undies today. I made them out of blue and white striped stretch knit and I used this tut. I must admit I had a bit of trouble cutting up my poor old undies.. how weird is that? I lined them with some of the white knit (from the photo above) and added some little blue ribbon bows after they were done.

 

Here's a close up of one of the bows.

 

That's me for today. Hope you all had a good weekend!

San xx

Refashioned knit shirt

Hey guys,

I don't have a before picture but here is a skirt I made from an old long-sleeved knit shirt.

I basically just cut straight across the shirt underneath the arms and collar and hemmed the top so that it was the right length (the shirt fit my hips perfectly so I didn't have to take it in or anything =] ), then I cut open the sleeves and used them to make the ruffle. Easy!

I think it turned out pretty spiffy. =]

Here are a couple more skirts I made from some thick stretchy knit stuff I had in my stash. It's black with white hearts and arrows on it. I made one plain using the fold-over-band mini tutorial on Max California's awesome-ass blog (I love her, she is so awesome!).

The second one I did the same thing but chucked a couple of ruffles on the bottom of it instead of the fold-over band. Because it's really thick fabric my machine had a spaz going through all the layers. It managed though. Slowly.

That's all for today. Thanks for reading!


San xx

First post ever

Hey non-existent readers,

I'm San. This blog will mainly be a place for me to post about the stuff I make and whatever else I feel like. I hope you enjoy my incessant ramblings and occasional crafted achievements.
Thanks for reading. =]


San xx