Re-Fashioning Spring

So taking this pledge to recycle clothing and not buy anything new is a little extra challenging right now while we are in the midst of a season change but that makes it all the more interesting to me. I’ve been cleaning out dressers and closets, taking out the old and bringing in the new (well, relatively speaking). I found that my daughter has many more spring tops than bottoms so I have spent a little time converting winter bottoms to summer bottoms and here are a couple of examples of what I’ve done…I’m not big on shorts so I wanted to do something besides the traditional cut off idea.

Here’s a close up of the appliques. I cut off the pants to capri length and added the appliques that were harvested off of an outgrown shirt that was a little stained up. I ran a top stitch across the bottom of the pants to ruffle them up a bit and to give it a more messy feeling like the unfinished edges of the appliques.

Last night I took a vintage pillowcase picked up on a thrifting trip and a pair of outgrown jeans…

And with a touch of vintage ric rac from my stash made some more summertime britches…


I’m quickly becoming addicted to this whole concept and look at all clothing now with eyes that are deciding how I can cut it up.