T-Shirt Refashion

Here's a shirt I worked on last week.  I had a pink shirt that had begun to look boring to me and a blue shirt that was too small.  Both are made of cotton with a touch of lycra for stretch.  I cut up the blue shirt into random shapes.  Slightly inspired by coral shapes, I appliquéd the shapes onto the pink shirt using 3 different colors of embroidery thread I had already.  It took many hours of hand sewing, but I needed the relaxing monotony of it and enjoyed the process.

Before

After

Skirt Before and After

Last week I dyed a skirt I've had for years but only worn a couple of times.  It was white eyelet lace cotton and had several stains on it.  I found some dye in Mark's grandmother's sewing stash and went to town.  Here is the before & after:

I like it so much better, especially next to this salmon pinky-orangy color.  Yummy!  This is the skirt that I might "happy-up" with some multi-colored buttons randomly placed near the hem.

Love,

Mel