The Imaginative Seamstress

So true!!! Here is what I was distracted by on Sunday night... The Hubby suggested we go through boxes in our guestroom, and by the end of the night, I was sewing!!!  I have boxes of fabrics for up-cycling into different things. You may find an old dress of mine, or a skirt, shirts, pants.. some of which were ruined by a stain and I figured I'd turn the good fabric into something else 'one day'... If not using for clothing, for making fabric flowers!!! :-) Also, you'll find clothing pieces that I mean to alter, regular clothes I meant to turn into maternity. Or like a short skirt that I want to add fabric to the bottom of, to make a new skirt. Such were the skirts and fabric I found on Sunday night...   Skirts I found...  or pieces of skirts I found...  This had been a skirt of mine, and I'd cut off the bottom. It had some rather interesting/strange pleats in the skirt, but they had never laid right, and they had begun to come un-stitched! ...

Random post about a little alteration I did. I found this shirt, that was a woman's small petite. And as I keep an eye out for clothes for my little sister in law, I snag things when I find them. Even if its something that needs a little altering. This one came from a local clothing swap. I thought it was cute and just right for my purpose :-) Its fun to up-cycle clothes!  I took another shirt I found at the clothing swap (which said it was a women's small..but I didn't believe that. It looks like a girl's large to me) and used it as a cutting guide. I left it long and just took it in a bit. My sister in law is a tall, but tiny little thing, who wears a size 14 slim. The dress form that the shirt is on, is a girl's size 12.  I used the serger to sew the side seam and folded the seam over at the hem, (just like you see many times with store bought items) and sewed it down with the sewing machine. I took the outdoor photos at my parent's farm, and that'...