So remember
these? The bleached black skinny jeans that turned yellow? Well I gave them a spin in the washing machine with a packet of Dylon antique grey and they are no longer yellow.
They are not entirely what I imagined when I first got the bleach out, I was thinking more along the lines of a distressed light grey look, but they are certainly more wearable than when they were yellow. In fact I wore them on Saturday with another recent refashion.
Jacket Next
T-Shirt New Look
Scarf Me
Jeans New Look, Bleached and Dyed by Me
Boots Jane Shilton
A circle scarf made from the bottom of
this velvet dress. This turned out to be harder to make than I thought it would be. Originally I sewed it right sides together into a tube and then tried to turn it the right way round but I kept ending up with tube inside a tube for reasons I can't understand so I had to unpick the whole lot and sew it wrong sides together. What should have been a 5 minute project took around 2 hours.
Do you remember this coat? Probably not. The above is one of the very few times I wore it. It's one of those things that I loved when I bought then realised that it didn't go with very much in my wardrobe. While having a clear out the other day I decided that rather than donate it to a charity shop I would try to refashion it as it is a lovely fit and makes a good light weight coat for spring. All that was wrong was the colour. I thought long and hard about what colour to dye it to, what I would get the most wear out of and what colour was missing from my wardrobe. In the end I settled for a navy blue, Dylon Navy Blue, to be specific.
I forgot about the polyester stitching of course. My mother loves the contrast stitching and buttons, I hate it. Now I am faced with the task of unpicking all that top stitching, crossing my fingers that it is just top stitching and the whole thing won't fall apart if I undo it. I'm also wondering about buttons. Navy blue or gold?
