More collaged tshirts - what to do with parts of tshirts

Like I said previously, a million times previously, I am working on actual clothing, but work is has been nuts and the UFO and mending pile is easier to deal with than a new thing from scratch. Or a new pattern to alter. And there's more choir hems. 

I stumbled across this photo in my 'ideas' folder while looking for medical records. Isn't that how it always works?

which is from this

https://journal.alabamachanin.com/2019/01/2019-build-a-wardrobe-the-fractal-dress-pattern/

I taped together and am presently staring at this VersitiliTee from way back and.... it's not going to do what I want it to do. It has that solid piece front, with any shaping seams on the back, and while this does appeal to me in that ATATAC origami zerowaste manner, I need seams, my butt is big so I need the hem to be wider, and I just don't want to set in a knit sleeve. Not unless I have to.

I don't like a raglan sleeve - my shoulders have disappeared and I don't like being reminded of that. I want a seam at the top of where they used to be. So I enjoyed widening the bicep on this pattern, but alas not to be. Not a wadder but not for me; and you know about learning from failure by reading this blog.

And I have all these tshirts with images on them I love, and I am not going to make a tshirt quilt. Nope.

This style is just offset enough, the cut just abrupt enough, that i think it might work for collaging a tshirt. 

I had a long sleeve pullover knit similar to the brown shape, and I wore it to death in the late 80s.

So this is where my mind is going with this project these days

ReMake Nine: Some Challenge Thing Results

Last year, Green Violet did this

I remake stuff all the time, so it was a fair idea.

This is what I was going to do

Make a pullover bra from underpants

Remodel / resize t shirts

Transform a skirt into a hat

Reweave some sweaters

Make socks into mittens

Refashion one thing into another

Make two tshirts into one

Mend something into usefulness from the bottom of the pile

I have no bingo, even with a wild card in the middle.

Unders: I have photos, for my reference only. It does not quite work, but not for the reasons I thought. 

Simply: I like a wider bra band than an pair of underpants can provide. That waist elastic is too skinny for me. BUT THIS DOES WORK. You do need to put fold over elastic for the neck straps, and extend them past where the crotch fabric goes, but for a light day bra, yeah.

T Shirts: oh yes

 Slice em off and hem em up. Rinse and repeat. Although this one was a mistake, as when Spouse raised his arms to swing golf club, previously too long shirt raised to show off navel.
Note to self: do not alter too-large golf wear.

The best one this year was the Poe sweater from Archie's: it was too big by half, but not anymore.

I took it apart into pieces and moved the whole body up three inches (or lowered the neckline: pick one, same thing).

Cut carefully. Plan your piece cuts carefully. Make pattern pieces just to be safe.

It's a pattern for the neckline, so I can replicate it three inches lower.

Save any yarn you can to resew the neck back on 

(so it will stretch)

The redone shoulder and top armhole seam, interior.

Transformed: Skirt into hat: Not yet.

Years ago (2014), I cut a wool miniskirt into chunks to make a hat. The parts resurfaced when I made this grid. And then it disappeared again. No, I can't find the pieces. I could have sworn I still had photos on this blog. Apparently not.

Reweaving: oh yesss, Very overexposed to show the stitches.

This is the fun one.
Apparently I did not blog this one?

Now I have.

Feet into hands: Socks into mittens: did not work. It could, but I lacked patience. 

 Made mittens instead, cause needed mittens.

Refashion: kind of a  meh

Turned tote bag into dog rain coat. It would have worked better with dog for measurements. I got it back all chopped up to better dimensions

This is the before photo.

After's note: "We bought a good one so no thanks"

That's my second son.

Just like his ma.

The sweater was a success

Two into one:  not yet. I need to toile one

She is my inspiration for the better version that I will make, vs the 'eh' one I was thinking of.

From the bottom of the pile: oh yasssssss

The neck on this Tilton V8813 just cut into my neck, so for a quick win after a couple fails, I put in a back neck facing

Made a paper pattern first! Yay me!

Mostly just stitching to seam allowances, although I did open up the back neck seam to slot this in.

I could enjoy this dress now. It's a light weight shirt fabric, so I'm not wearing it now, but I've got a tablecloth to make this my Pao Tribute Dress.

God I hated sewing this dress.....so maybe not yet.

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My sewing plan for 2020 is I'm making a Chanel style, Western decorated jacket, I'm making a toile or two first, and I'm going to take way too long to make it. 

so this blog will get really boring.

Well, we will still have mending...

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We'll see exactly how long this lasts.

The Future is Trashion

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/12/20/fashion/20Ragpicker-jacket/merlin_164102892_3a12cd58-7774-4287-9912-c9ea462b51f6-superJumbo.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/style/zero-waste-daniel-trashion.html

"The ragpicker of Brooklyn, whose name is Daniel Silverstein and whose nom de style is Zero Waste Daniel, looks like a fashion kid, which he is (or was). He is 30 and tends to dress all in black, with a black knit cap on his head, and went to the Fashion Institute of Technology and interned at Carolina Herrera and even was on a fashion reality TV show.

And the ragpicker of Brooklyn would rather not be called that at all.

“I prefer to think of it as Rumpelstiltskin, spinning straw into gold,” Mr. Silverstein said"

Go read the article. Swell photos, too.