I looooove the Anthropologie/Boutique/ art-to-wear-style.
Excuse me,
I have to pause to wipe the drool off my keyboard
as I type those words....
wipe wipe wipe.
I can't explain why, but it just speaks to me.
which I'm guessing was stitched together
with solid gold thread and a bone needle,
handcarved from the skeleton of some extinct animal.
No doubt it's fabric is spun by the lilly white hands of a
100 year old temple priestess of some tribe
sequestered high on a mountain,
reachable only once a year.
By donkey.
That is the ONLY reason I can imagine it
being worth the $428 price tag.
However, since I am NOT a world wide best selling author,
my clothing budget behooves me to keep my
greedy little paws OFF these type of little jewels.
It's a touch-with-your-eyes-not-your-hands kind of relationship
I have going on with Anthropologie & art-to-wear.
Thankfully, there IS a store that provides me with these type of goodies.
Think Horchow meets Ikea.
You know, faaaaaaabulous things + some assembly required.
My personal favorite is St. Vincent DePaul on Farnsworth Ave.
On .89 days
I might near hurt myself
so delirious with delight am I.
Awhile back I lost some weight,
no wait,
lost
is hardly the term to describe it.
I with great determination and intentional food choices
rid my body of over 30 lbs of lumpy lard.
Yuck, I know, but painfully true.
I have plenty to go yet, but one bite at a time, I'll get there.
So I have a CLOSET FULL of too big's.
Yippie.
What to do with them?
Artiste my self right into happyland of course.
***
Here is my first project.
One too big shirt
(from the closet)
Plus
one miniskirt (from the thrift store)
which I'm SURE had some employee eyeballs a'rollin
EQUALS
Stripes Gone Wild
or
Rachel's miniskirt madness.
***
Here is how
***
Place a shirt that fits well on top of a shirt that is too big
***
Lay a shirt that fits on top and chalk mark the new seams.
***
Cut along your chalk lines and trim.
***
Fold shirt in half to make sure the sides are even. Trim if needed.
***
Lay the shirt out and pin your ruffles, new fabric, miniskirt etc on top and sew.
I opened one of the side seams on the miniskirt and trimmed off part of the top.
Since I did not want ruffles around the back, and it was a child sized miniskirt,
I used the whole thing on the front. I tapered its sides into the side seams of the shirt.
***
For the sleeve addition I cut strips of black tshirt from a black scrap one and zigzagged the sleeves to give it a ruffled edge and sewed to the sleeve hem.
***
I also sliced up the back of the shirt
and inserted a triangle of black tshirt fabric to give it some flair.
I forgot to photograph that process though.
Will do a tutorial on that another time.
***
Fare thee well, I hope this gives you some ideas for
upcycling some lifeless garments in your closet.
