Today,
I am so pleased and excited to share with you one of my favorite bloggers!
I am so pleased and excited to share with you one of my favorite bloggers!
I stay on top of all her posts, and look anxiously forward to each one!
Allow me to introduce to you, Jen from Diary of a MadMama!
are just two (there are so many to choose from) of my favorite refashions from Jen...
can you tell I like dresses?
I 'met' Jen through the very first Refashion Runway Competition,
can you tell I like dresses?
I 'met' Jen through the very first Refashion Runway Competition,
held by Beth at Renegade Seamstress, and immediately singled her out as my favorite!
I've been following her ever since.
I love her sense of humor and creativity!
She does some of the most unique and 'out of the box' refashions I've ever seen.
I hope you enjoy her as much as I do!
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Hello there!
Jen here, from Diary of a MadMama.
I am so honored that Desarae would so kindly ask me to be a guest blogger!
I have been blogging for a little over a year, and I've really enjoyed the journey so far!
Recently I refashioned the sleeves of these sweaters into fingerless gloves:
Since all I used were the sleeves (and not even all of the sleeves), I still had a lot of sweater leftover.
Not wanting anything to go to waste, I thought of the perfect way to use up the leftovers...
A WINTER MAXI SKIRT!
I love the comfy-coziness of maxi skirts, and I HATE being cold
(especially this winter in Michigan, with arguably the worst winter weather I have ever experienced).
A maxi skirt made out of sweaters = warmth and style!
As a side note, I purchased the grey and red sweaters for 49-cents each at my local thrift store,
which fits my weekly "49-Cent Friday" blog series (the black sweater was given to me for free!).
The grey and red sweaters have strands of sparkly silver threads woven into them,
giving them a shimmery effect.
The black and grey sweaters are very stretchy, making them perfect for this skirt.
I mean, if the sweaters aren't stretchy enough, I'd end up walking like a geisha!
Since the red sweater had a higher wool content, it wasn't as stretchy,
so I decided to use it as the waistband (and top section) of the maxi skirt,
keeping the other (more stretchy) sweater pieces as the bottom of the skirt.
So to begin, I cut the sweaters across at the armpits like so:
With the red sweater, I trimmed higher above the armpits to give myself more material, since I was using it as the upper, waist portion of the skirt.
I just trimmed down the sides a bit to make it smoother.
Using the brand-new serger I got for Christmas, I serged around the top of the red sweater...
...and then trimmed the ribbed waistband off of the black sweater:
After that was trimmed off, I placed the black sweater into the red sweater (wrong-sides together):
And serged them together...
Then I placed the grey sweater into the black sweater (once again, wrong-sides together):
Once I serged that together, it was all done! And since I left the ribbed band on the grey sweater, the bottom was already finished.
I love that the red sweater already is snug, which means I didn't need to add elastic.
This skirt is super comfy and I love it dressed up with my wide, black belt:
By the way, what do you think of my slippers? ;)
I hope you like this quick and easy refashion.
Thanks so much for having me, Desarae! :)
~Jen
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I'm linking up at Anchored in Love Divine
for the Blog Everyday in February Challenge!
Hello there!
Jen here, from Diary of a MadMama.
I am so honored that Desarae would so kindly ask me to be a guest blogger!
I have been blogging for a little over a year, and I've really enjoyed the journey so far!
Recently I refashioned the sleeves of these sweaters into fingerless gloves:
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| Meh |
Since all I used were the sleeves (and not even all of the sleeves), I still had a lot of sweater leftover.
Not wanting anything to go to waste, I thought of the perfect way to use up the leftovers...
A WINTER MAXI SKIRT!
I love the comfy-coziness of maxi skirts, and I HATE being cold
(especially this winter in Michigan, with arguably the worst winter weather I have ever experienced).
A maxi skirt made out of sweaters = warmth and style!
As a side note, I purchased the grey and red sweaters for 49-cents each at my local thrift store,
which fits my weekly "49-Cent Friday" blog series (the black sweater was given to me for free!).
The grey and red sweaters have strands of sparkly silver threads woven into them,
giving them a shimmery effect.
The black and grey sweaters are very stretchy, making them perfect for this skirt.
I mean, if the sweaters aren't stretchy enough, I'd end up walking like a geisha!
Since the red sweater had a higher wool content, it wasn't as stretchy,
so I decided to use it as the waistband (and top section) of the maxi skirt,
keeping the other (more stretchy) sweater pieces as the bottom of the skirt.
So to begin, I cut the sweaters across at the armpits like so:
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| Snip! |
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| Snip!! |
With the red sweater, I trimmed higher above the armpits to give myself more material, since I was using it as the upper, waist portion of the skirt.
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| Snip! |
I just trimmed down the sides a bit to make it smoother.
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| Snip! |
Using the brand-new serger I got for Christmas, I serged around the top of the red sweater...
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| Pretty stitches 'eh? |
...and then trimmed the ribbed waistband off of the black sweater:
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| Snip! |
After that was trimmed off, I placed the black sweater into the red sweater (wrong-sides together):
And serged them together...
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| Whirrrr... |
Then I placed the grey sweater into the black sweater (once again, wrong-sides together):
Once I serged that together, it was all done! And since I left the ribbed band on the grey sweater, the bottom was already finished.
I love that the red sweater already is snug, which means I didn't need to add elastic.
This skirt is super comfy and I love it dressed up with my wide, black belt:
By the way, what do you think of my slippers? ;)
I hope you like this quick and easy refashion.
Thanks so much for having me, Desarae! :)
~Jen
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I'm linking up at Anchored in Love Divine
for the Blog Everyday in February Challenge!
