I just wanted to write a short paragraph about taking already made clothes and remaking them into something else. If you have a favorite article of clothing and have basic sewing skills, you can take that dress or blouse or shirt or pants, take it apart and use it as a pattern to make another piece like it. It's cheaper than buying a ready made pattern that has an outrageous price tag, and then figuring out how to make it fit you. You know that what you already have fits!
You can change clothing around too, by adding different trims, ribbons, laces, buttons, beads or whatever you imagination will lead you to. One of the frequent crafts I've seen on the internet is called T-shirt surgery. It amazes me the ideas they come up with for making over plain t-shirts. There was even one suggestion to make a shopping bag out of a sleeveless t-shirt. I think that one is so clever.
Dresses, men's dress shirts and T-shirts can be cut down to make a child's article of clothing.T-shirts can be used to make underclothes as well. Whenever you are out at thrift stores or yard sales, look at what is there with an eye for what fabric it is, and what you might be able to do with it. If you can find an older pre-1960's sewing book, it will probably have a chapter about remaking clothes that can help.
Edey
