Handmade Tuesdays [Handmade Pact]

March 14, 2011 by


Welcome Everyone!! I hope you have had a fabulous beginning to your week!! Thanks for coming to link up to Handmade Tuesdays!!

I don’t really have any rules but I would love if you added the banner to your post, linky page, wherever you post those things :)

And I would be honored if you would follow me. :) Please link up anything you have been working on- crafts, recipes, remodels. I love seeing what you have been working on!! And now for this weeks tutorial…

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Wow! Thanks Kristen for having me as a guest on your fab blog… It’s just occurred to me how hard it is to introduce myself when I blog under a pseudonym. I’d normally start with a my name is… but failing that you can just call me “The Spangler”. You can find out a little bit more about me at my blog…

I started my blog The Quick Unpick about 5 months ago and have quickly fallen in love and awe with the craftiness, kindness and sharing spirit that is literally a keystroke away…

selection

You can find a little bit of a mix of projects over at The Quick Unpick… including my Stitched Photo Canvas, a foray into jewellery making, some cake decorating, a funky boot sleeve project etc… but my favourite thing to do and display on my blog is definitely refashioning tutorials. I love finding an ugly, neglected, unwanted or simply wrong sized thrift shop bargain and attempting to turn it into something unique and stylish for one of my girls.

So that’s what I have here for you today… A refashioning project that transforms this large size 24 tailored jacket (found at local thrift store for $2.50)

before …Into a cute little vest and capris pant set (with enough fabric left to also make a coordinating skirt at a later date!).

refashioned jacket

And remember although this is a girly jacket, with a few tweaks here and there and a thrift shop tweed men’s jacket you could make a rather dapper short (or pant) and vest set for a little man!

The pants are the easiest part of the project and I know turning sleeves into pants isn’t a new concept but here’s my take on it… (you can enlarge any of the photo’s by just clicking on them).

  1. Remove sleeves
  2. crotch seam
  3. cut sleeves
  4. pant legs
  5. inside out legs
  6. crotch seam done

  7. waist casing

  8. elastic waist
  9. elastic feeding

Taa Daa! Halfway point victory dance – the pants are done!
Now onto the vest… Size, measure, pin &mark:

  1. pin neck measurement
  2. excess collar
  3. vest cut out
  4. open vest
  5. pintucks
  6. pint tuck fan
  7. collar bias
  8. finishing collar
  9. arm holes
  10. front lapels
  11. topstitch lapels
  12. bottom top hem

To finish, I added some ribbon ties (made from bias trim) to the front of the vest to tie it closed….

front vest refashion
… A short strip of bias at the centre back over the end of the pin tucks…. the trim on the pants was already part of the original jacket sleeves.
finished back outfit
Woo Hoo… here it is all finished – a cute capris pant & vest set (yes it is time for a victory dance ?)

finished outfit

Modelled by my Little Little Miss M (My big girl is having pants issues at present and refuses to wear anything but a skirt!) but yes there STILL was bribery involved…

bribery was involved

Thanks again Kristen for having me here taking up some room in your corner… Please stop by say hi – let me know you came from Kristen’s fab blog – and I’ll get working on that matching skirt (and dealing with the sugar high my little lovely is going to have from that enormous lolly pop!)

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Now it is your turn to link up!!

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Comments

  1. Vivienne says:
    March 14, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    That little outfit is absolutely adorable! LOVE! Thanks for hosting the party. I’m linked up and looking forward to seeing what everyone has been doing!

  2. Polly @ Helping Little Hands says:
    March 14, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    What a cute outfit!

    And thanks for hosting the party.

  3. Alicia says:
    March 14, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Thanks for hosting! Cute outfit! :)

  4. Lolly Jane says:
    March 15, 2011 at 2:18 am

    thank you for hosting! (:

  5. Melanie says:
    March 15, 2011 at 10:21 am

    I’d love it if you’d link up your craftiness at my Tuesday Time Out Link Party {today’s the first day!}

    Smiles,
    Melanie
    http://reasonstoskipthehousework.blogspot.com

    http://reasonstoskipthehousework.blogspot.com/2011/03/tuesday-time-out-link-up-party.html

  6. Natalia says:
    March 16, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    This is so impressive! I love it!

  7. Bec@littlelucylu says:
    March 17, 2011 at 12:54 am

    Thank you for the visit and the nice comments!
    I am just getting into the blog world, so it means a lot! :-)
    ~Bec

  8. LollyJane says:
    March 17, 2011 at 1:09 am

    Thanks for stopping by! We linked up- and thanks for hosting :) Great guest blogger, too. Such talent! :)

  9. Tatum says:
    March 17, 2011 at 11:09 am

    Hi Kristen,

    I saw your comment on my blog post about my striped paint tutorial. Thank you for the invite to link up, I have done it and grabbed your button. My blog is new and just starting out, so I really appreciate the invite! Your blog looks like it is full of great ideas, I can’t wait to check it out!

    Thanks,

    Tatum at Keep it Simple, Sister http://simplesisterblog.blogspot.com/