Making things up is a rewarding and exciting experience. From old T-shirts, dresses, skirts, you will create stylish new clothes, as well as bags and scarves. Update your shoes, sew mittens, boots and gloves.
Often, clothes accumulate in the closets, which it is a pity to throw away, but you no longer want to wear them. Some things have gone out of fashion, others have become small or large, and still others are simply bored. You do not need to get rid of them, because you will get fashionable clothes made with your own hands from old ones. Moreover, many of the presented models do not even need to be sewn. It is enough to quickly modify them.
DIY denim clothes from old things
If you have a long skirt at home that you no longer wear, make two trendy ones out of it. If there is no such thing, then a similar thing can be purchased, for example, in a second-hand store.
To get this pretty ruffle, you'll need to cut out a semicircle pattern. Decide on the length of your skirt. Place the template on this line and start tracing around it with a white crayon pencil. Then you just need to cut with scissors along these lines.
If desired, then overlock the cut points. But you can simply rub them with foam to get a trendy fringe.
The lower part of the skirt will also work. Make the second fashion item out of it. For such a makeover from old clothes with your own hands, you need to measure the waistline. Since the lower part of the skirt is larger than the upper one, in this place you will need to either sew on the sides and make folds, or insert an elastic band around the belt. If the second option is suitable, then you need to tuck the jeans in the waist twice, sew, thread an elastic band into the resulting collar.
But what kind of clothes will turn out from old jeans. With your own hands, you first make the scuffs. To do this, you need to take sandpaper and lightly rub this thing in the right places. Then put a wooden plank under each leg, start making horizontal cuts with a chisel. Then you will need to apply strokes to these areas using a pink or other marker.
You can even make a bag out of old jeans.
It will turn out to be roomy and fashionable. There will be handy pockets in which you can put a lot of useful items. To do this, just rip off the top of the trousers. After that, you measure the bottom of this thing, cut out a strip of suitable fabric according to these dimensions, but with a margin so that you can fold ruffles out of it. First, make them, string them on a thread with a needle. After that, you will sew this fabric here on your hands or on a typewriter.
If your favorite jeans are frayed, don't rush to throw them away. See if you or someone you know has clothes made of such material that no one needs anymore. Peel off flaps, pockets from it, sew them on to your favorite thing.
And if things made of such material are still lying around in the closet, combining them, you will sew a dress for yourself. For the pattern, use the ones you already have.
A permanent marker is very inexpensive. The stencil you like can be printed on the Internet. By applying it, you can paint them. Then hide the scuff marks, update this thing.
If the jeans on the knees are frayed, you can put patches of suitable fabric here and be known as fashionistas.
It would be nice to sew a toy for a child out of scraps. This is how old denim clothes will do the job. Fill with holofiber or synthetic winterizer so that such a bear is light and your baby will like it.
By the way, some have built their home businesses this way. After all, you can sew charming toys from old shirts, for example, such bears that Anika Jermyn creates. Toys can be made from regular or denim shirts.
Create fashionable new clothes from this material. You can take a denim shirt, cut cutouts in the shoulder area and get an original thing. Look, first you need to carry out your plan, then tuck the places of the cuts, iron them. Stitch on a typewriter if you wish.
It will turn out to be such a wonderful new thing.
The topic of shirts can be covered in a little more detail. After all, through simple manipulations, you will turn an already unfashionable thing into a supermodern one. You can also use men's shirts to create beautiful things. But for the next master classes, you will need female ones.
What can you do from an old shirt with your own hands?
See what kind of clothes, created with your own hands from an old shirt, you get.
See how to make this cut.
As you can see, first you need to draw with a chalk where the cutout will be. At this point, you can fix it if you don't like something. And if you are using a light shirt, then draw on the back with a simple pencil or a water-washable marker, then make a cutout, tuck it up and hem. But only you need to act carefully so as not to accidentally cut through the reverse side of this thing.
If the shirt is out of fashion, you want to update it, then create this original cut on the back.
To do this, you also need to first note where it will be located, then implement your plan. If the shirt is wide, then fold in 2 folds, as shown in the photo.
You can even not cut anything, but simply decorate your creation. The next MK with step-by-step photos shows how a glamorous thing was obtained from a simple shirt.
Take:
- plain shirt;
- a thread with a needle that matches the color of the fabric;
- beads of two colors;
- scissors.
Decide what pattern you want to get. Here the beads were evenly sewn on the collar, and in the corners they were attached tightly to each other. Start at this site. For convenience, pour the beads into a container with rims so that they do not spill out. Embroider the shirt as you wish, or as done in this master class.
Not only women, but also men will shine in new shirts, such clothes with their own hands are transformed from old into new ones by changing the collar. Open it, then sew in the middle of the buttons and loops. Now you can make a stand-up collar, or lower it to get such a collar.
But women surpassed men in this too. After all, they managed to put on a shirt even on their feet. In this case, she turned into trendy pants. And the lowered leg line has become a fashionable element. You can also make a sleeveless blouse from this thing.
Check out two options for reworking things.
To quickly make a topic, you need to cut off the top of the shirt along with the sleeves. Now prepare the gum, because it is with the help of it that this thing will hold. Tuck the top of the remaining top two times, stitch it in and insert the elastic here. And to make jeans, first draw a circle just below the collar and cut it off.
To make the shirt drape well and turn into pants, cut off the pockets so they don't get in the way. Sew up the hole at the collar level, now you can put on a new thing, and tie the bottom of the shirt with a knot at the belt so that the trousers hold well here.
If the shirt is too big for you, or you just don't like the too loose cut of this thing, then fold a fold in the back. Sew small loops from a suitable tape on the left side, and attach buttons on the right. The shirt will now fit around your waist and fit well.
If the shirt sleeves no longer look new or you just want to get a new thing from the old one, then push them off the sweater and sew on instead of the removed shirt sleeves.
DIY clothing alteration - what can be made from ties
If there are unnecessary ties that the husband no longer wears, prepare a surprise for him and meet him from work in such an original skirt.
Of course, at first it will be useful to hint if he needs these accessories? Take the ties, cut off the excess length from the narrow part. But don't throw these details away. Now sew the wide parts of the ties on the wrong side to make a skirt. Take the narrow parts, grind together. Turn out, sewn as a belt on the skirt. Pass the elastic and you can flaunt in this new thing.
If you don't want to cut your ties, want to use all of them, then you get a wonderful long skirt with an openwork bottom. You will also sew these parts by ironing them first. Now you will need to take a wide elastic band, sew it to the top of the skirt in the form of a belt.
These are far from all the ideas of how clothes with their own hands turn from old to new. You will be convinced of this.
What can you make from scarves, stole, rug with your own hands?
These things also tend to accumulate over time. You can sew a summer sundress to shine in it. A very original element is the different length of the hem. You will receive it due to the fact that the scarves are rectangular. Sew the two sides together, leaving the top slightly unstitched. It is this part that will be at the level of the bodice, and the seam will be on the line from the chest to the knee.
By the way, you can sew a fashionable skirt, modify the old one. To do this, you will make a round neckline, then process it.
If you still have such a large scarf as in the previous case, then connect its opposite corners and sew them. Fold the upper part in fashionable pleats and sew to the belt. Then, in the same way, cut out a semicircle in front, pre-folding the skirt in half. You will get a fashionable new thing of different lengths.
A cozy blanket will turn into a soft warm coat. To do this, you need to fold it in half, cut it along the neckline and process it here. Then make a slit on one side and the other so that you can insert a belt here and tie this coat at the waistline.
If the household has a large scarf, you can also make a charming coat out of it. First, you will need to connect the opposite sides, then make the cuts for the loops, on the other side, at the same level, sew on the buttons. Leave the fringe on the scarf, then the coat will be even more original.
How to convert a sweater into new clothes with your own hands?
There are also many options for converting an already boring thing into an original one. Agree, not every woman has such a blouse. And you will make it from an old sweater.
First you need to make a vertical cut in the middle at the back. Now hem the edges. Attach the Velcro to the top so that you can easily remove and put on this thing.
This is how stylish clothes are made from old ones. With your own hands, you first cut off the neck from the sweater, you get a wide neckline. Now you need to mark the holes at a distance of one and a half cm from each other. Make them flush with a utility knife or nail scissors.
Cut strips from the T-shirt. Now insert them sequentially into the resulting holes. The next row is staggered. This will complete the entire neckline. It will turn out original and interesting.
And if the sweater starts to wipe or you just want to update it, take:
- the sweater itself;
- or shiny fabric, or sequins;
- scissors;
- thread with a needle.
Cut two blanks to the size of future patches, you can use a template for this. Now sew them in place. And if you are decorating with sequins, then sew them here.
You can make patches and more romantic, in the shape of a heart. To do this, first draw a heart on the elbows, then take a ribbon with sequins, starting from the outer tier, lay out this figure, moving towards the middle. Fill all the space this way.
How to make a dress from old clothes?
You will also quickly create this outfit from old things. If you have such an old-style thing, then very soon it will become fashionable and modern.
Take:
- old dress;
- cardboard;
- threads with a needle;
- scissors.
Cut a triangle out of the cardboard. Set it aside for now. Unfasten the sleeves, sew on the buttons on the shoulders, which need to be covered with the same fabric. On the other hand, make loops. Place a piece of cardboard over the part from which you want to cut the triangle. Then fold inward at the edges, stitch here to finish the edges of the canvas this way.
The result is a cute cocktail dress. And if you want a sexy night out, use plain black. Draw a vertical line in the center, make a slit along it. Unscrew the first and second resulting edges. Wrap these parts inward. Pin it with pins. Now sew on a typewriter. You will thread the lace into loops made of thin braid. You can also create it from these materials.
If the neckline seems too revealing to you, then you can make it less deep by decorating the dress in the same way.
You can also make new things from old things, and even decorate them if you take:
- plain dress;
- floss threads;
- belt;
- scissors.
First, you need to make such cheerful tassels from threads. To do this, wind them on strips of cardboard, then tie them from above, stepping back a little, and cut from the bottom. Now you will need to sew these tassels to the hem.
For such a model, you don't even need to sew a dress. You just quickly update what is available. Tie up the garment with a bright sash so you have a new summer garment made from the old one. And if a long skirt is lying around in the closet that you no longer want to wear, turn it into a light sundress or dress. It will be enough to tie it with a wide belt, you can make an accessory to match its color and attach it here.
If you have a baggy sundress, turn it into a stylish, flattering dress.
Turn the existing spacious sundress inside out. Get a dress that fits well. Match the two so they are symmetrical with respect to each other. Sketch out a sundress using this pattern and cut it out.
Since the dress will turn out to be rather narrow, open the seam in the middle on the back of the back and sew a zipper here, which starts from the neck and reaches the waist.
Sew the sidewalls. From the remaining patches, you can create a kind of small skirt by sewing it on the waist line. Then it will seem that this is not a dress, but a suit.
See what else can be alteration of old clothes. After all, unnecessary T-shirts will give a huge scope for imagination.
