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The Refashioners 2015 – Round Up & over to YOU!!!

The Refashioners 2015 – Round Up & over to YOU!!!

Doesn’t seem like that long ago I was hitting “publish” on the first post in this series; and now here we are! At the end of the…

The Refashioners 2015 – Me (gulp!)

The Refashioners 2015 – Me (gulp!)

Aaaaand here we are! Unbelievably, at the end of an entire month of refashioning inspiration and…lets face it….more than a little…

The Refashioners 2015 – Erin

The Refashioners 2015 – Erin

Hello everyone, and a huge thanks to Portia for inviting me to take part in The Refashioners! First things first, I have to preface this by…

The Refashioners 2015 – Sasha

The Refashioners 2015 – Sasha

For me “refashion” does not simply mean recovering the fabric from a garment and making  another garment but also recombining the…

The Refashioners 2015 – Wendy (again!)

The Refashioners 2015 – Wendy (again!)

While I love denim, I used to think that “double denim” was a bit of a fashion sin. Now I’m a convert. What’s not to love…

The Refashioners 2015 – Dixie

The Refashioners 2015 – Dixie

Hello all you Refashioners out there! I admit, I’m not usually much of a Refashioner. I get easily overwhelmed in giant thrift stores but I…

The Refashioners 2015 – Sally

The Refashioners 2015 – Sally

The raw materials for my refashion were chosen and sent to me by Elisalex from By Hand London. As you can see, naughty Elisalex (never one to play…

The Refashioners 2015 – Heather Lou

The Refashioners 2015 – Heather Lou

Up until about 5 years ago, most of the sewing I did as an adult involved tweaking and reworking clothing I found at thrift stores. I was…

The Refashioners 2015 – Ingrid

The Refashioners 2015 – Ingrid

I won’t bore you with any more ranting of how brilliant this initiative is. I did enough of that here. But it is amazing. Just sayin. When…

The Refashioners 2015 – Andrea

The Refashioners 2015 – Andrea

A quilt, huh? I guess you could say that I interpreted the word “refashion” a little bit differently than what Portia intended for this…

The Refashioners 2015 – Wendy

The Refashioners 2015 – Wendy

I love men’s traditional formal dress shirts with the bib fronts, I think that bib section provides the perfect blank canvas for a bit of…

The Refashioners 2015 – Tasha

The Refashioners 2015 – Tasha

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Thanks so much to Portia for organizing another amazing round of the Refashioners,…