Black T-shirt remake

Hubby and I got the same T-shirt from his sister.

I wanted mine to look more like a girls, so I took my favorite t-shirt pattern and placed it on top of the shirt.  I folded up the hem of the sleeve pattern and placed it on the hem of the sleeve.  The shirt's length was perfect.  I then cut all the new pieces out of the original shirt and sewed it back together.

No problem telling which shirt is mine and which one is his now.

Red T-shirt remake

Here is another item I got from the LDS Church clothing fair.  Forgot to take before and after pictures.  As you can see it had panels on the front to look like it was a two separate pieces.  I took all the seams apart.  Removed the front pieces and sewed it back together.  I had to re-hem the entire thing because the inside front piece was shorter than the outer pieces.

Gray sweater makeover

Another item from the LDS Church clothing fair.  I loved the sweater, but hated that it was a pullover.  One look inside told me this was a super easy remake.

The piece in the center was a knit piece of fabric attached separately.  Very easy to undo the row of stitching on each side.

Now I have a cardigan.

 A close-up of the sweater detail.

Brown dress makeover

I got this dress at the LDS Church clothing fair.  It was the perfect color for me, but I didn't like the bib vest thingy.  I knew that would be an easy fix.

 Close up of the bib.  I like the fabric design, just not as part of the dress.

I removed the bib.  Trimmed the ties from it to be the same width all the way down.  Sewed the shoulder seams back together.  Opened up the side seams and added the ties to the dress.

Now I love it and wear it all the time.  I still have the bib saved.  Thinking of making it into a little clutch purse for church.  As you can see that I do like to make covered hangers.  They are flannel and machine embroidered. They keep everything hanging correctly.

TV Tray Ironing Board Update

 Here is my new ironing board.  It works great!!!!  I am very happy with the results.

Close-up.  Ironing interfacing to the pacifier holders I am making.

TV Tray Ironing Board

I have some old TV trays and decided to make one into a small ironing board to put next to my sewing machine.

Here is a picture of my finished product.  The ironing board part is removable.



Here are the step by step instructions and pictures.

This is my TV tray.  It has a raised edge around it that angles outward.

I cut a piece of cardboard to fit the green area of the tray.

Next I cut a slightly larger piece of cardboard that went to the outside edge of the tray and hot glued it on top of the small piece of cardboard.

I used my scraps of Warm and Natural batting to pad the cardboard.  I cut three pieces the size of the top cardboard and hot glued them on at the outer edges only.  You can see the shiny spots of hot glue showing through the batting.

I pieced the last of my scraps together by putting the raw edges next to each other and ironing strips of iron-on interfacing to both sides of the batting to hold it together.

The top (4th) layer of batting I rolled to the back side and hot glued it to the back.  I wanted to cover up the hard spots  from the hot glue on the front side.

Then I added a layer of silver ironing board fabric a little larger than the top layer of batting.  I rolled it to the back and hot glued it down also.

Next I cut a piece of fabric (old sheet) a little larger than the cardboard.  I sewed a casing around the edge to put elastic in.

I put the cloth cover on the ironing board and pulled the elastic as tight as I could get it.  I pinned the elastic together, cut off the extra elastic, took the cover off, sewed the elastic ends together and finished sewing the casing closed.

Here is the backside of the TV tray ironing board with the cloth cover on.

Here is the front side of the TV tray ironing board with the cover on.  The hard spots of hot glue can no longer be felt around the edges.

The finished product one more time.

Tooth Fairy Bags

Here are the Tooth Fairy bags I have been making.  I am thinking about making some light green and some lavender ones.  They will be for sale for $3.50 each.