Here are some recrafted Christmas ornaments. The “snowballs” are old ornaments, painted with one layer of white and some good old snow-spray on top of it. The stars are made from an old T-Shirt and leftover yarn and the little wooden figures used to be painted in bright colours that have never worked with my decoration.

This project took almost a year to complete, mainly because I had to collect all these white plastic bottles first. I decided on this unusual material for the wreath because it is going to be used outdoors at a spot which is very exposed to wind, rain and snow (hopefully) … in previous years, the decoration we put up there didn’t always survive.

*gasp* I refashioned high waisted trousers into presumably less fashionable trousers with a normal waistline. A high waist will make your legs look longer, they say, but if these trousers had said effect I was too busy feeling uncomfortable in them to enjoy it. The problem wasn’t so much the waistline itself but the way the trousers are closed and not being able to wear a belt because of this.

So they ended up on my refashion pile and would have become yet another pencil skirt, only, I made so many last summer and really don’t need more at the moment. Not in a neutral colour anyway. So I decided to just lower the waistline and make a pencil skirt if the result looks weird, which was quite a bit more work than I had expected. There was loads of seam ripping, sewing and resewing involved but in the end I got there and I’m happy with the result.

I’m in the middle of making notepads from random scraps of paper, postcards and clips you use to close bigger envelopes. It’s hard to decide on what postcards to use because I have hundreds of these postcards you get for free in shops and cafés …

This is the second project with this reclaimed yarn and there’s still more than a ball left. It’s also my last summer project … I just cast on for a scarf :-/

It’s the thought that counts, right? Because the thought was beautiful … I had a stretchy bit of lace, some stretchy fabric from an old dress, a little red bow from a bra I recently tossed and thread to match the bow.

I thought this would lead to cute panties but my sewing machine hated the fabric and made such a mess of things. It turned out wearable but only because its underwear and usually hidden.

Some necklaces I put together today.
1. is made from an old necklace and some bits and pieces.
2. the key used to belong to a diary. I’ve never been into diaries and I think I eventually used this one as a notebook. It’s long gone but I kept the key because it’s cute.
3. is made from beads that used to be on a scarf. Sadly, the scarf’s fabric was damaged beyond repair.

This is another work in progress.

The original idea was to create a quilt from black scraps and refashion leftovers, so the squares wouldn’t contrast in colour but in texture, although of course, black fabric does come in diffrerent colours too.

I have strayed a bit from that idea now, since I’m slowly but surely running out of black scraps and black clothes to refashion, so I allowed some greys in and maybe I’ll add some white too.

If it’s not already obvious from the picture - yes, this is my very first quilt. In my defence, the mix of different fabrics, some of them very stretchy, others not stretchy at all, makes accurate sewing hard. I’m sure I would do a better job with all matching and store bought fabrics, but that’s not my idea for this quilt.

Since summer is coming to an end I was thinking about autumn outfits and how one particular dress would work well with a brown turtleneck shirt … and then I noticed there is one in my refashion pile which would just need some fitting.

Projects like this one are the reason why I got into refashioning. Because this one was real shopping in my own closets and it did save me some money.

I used the fabric I had left from this dress refashion and some leftover yarn for this shirt. The crochet bits were meant to be all black but then I ran out of yarn … but I quite like the red accents actually.

I forgot to take a before picture of that shirt but it was basically just a big tent with a silly bow in the front. The buttons are covering the holes that were left when I removed that bow.

This is what I’m currently working on. Both pieces are a lot more time consuming than my usual refashions, plus, I HATE sewing by hand, but I hope I have a finished project to show soon.

There was some fabric left from this refashion and it was just enough to get a little top out of it. The lace border is vintage and dyed with tea to hide some discolourations.

This is a very quick and simple refashion, but it made this shirt wearable for me. The lacy bit looked nice, but it was terribly itchy and made me want to scratch my neck all the time.

Also featured in this refashion: Shoe laces that always untied themselves and therefore had to be replaced and wooden beads from a broken necklace

Turning one of the most pointless inventions in the history of fashion - shoulder pads! - into something usefull.

I’m also happy I found the little pot a new job. I have quite a few of these and once the plant they came with has outgrown them I never know what to do with them.