National Sewing Month Challenge Day Six , Skirt

Welcome to Day Six of the challenge! What does a pillowcase and scrap fabric have in common? They make a really cute skirt that's what! Here is the before of the pillowcase and scrap:

I think I'm going to use the floral part of the pillowcase to make a grocery bag tomorrow. The only part of the pillowcase that I used was the decorative blue stripped edge. 

After I cut off the edge and snipped the seam open so it would lay flat I pinned it to my scrap blue fabric. 

Then I sewed it together.

Next I made a casing for the elastic waist. Part of me really wanted to make it a fitted zipper waist but I think I'll wait till later on in the month lol.

Then feed the elastic into the casing.

(Which is always my least favorite part)

This skirt only had one seam on the side, making it easy for novices like myself. So after that it was trying it on. It doesn't look all that great with my jammie top but I promise I will take a better pic tomorrow!

National Sewing Month Challenge Day Five, T-Shirt to Halter!

Welcome to Day Five of the National Sewing Month Challenge! Today I went digging through my closet looking for clothes I haven't worn in awhile or that don't fit. Recently I have lost some weight so finding clothes to manipulate was pretty easy! I took this plain jane t-shirt and decided to make it into a halter top. The t-shirt started out at as a size 11/13 and ended up a size 7/8.
Plain jane T-shirt:

And the after of the halter top:

This challenge really gave me some insight into fitting some of my existing clothes to fit me better. I think it would probably be a lot more cost effective than going out and buying all new clothes. And there is nothing wrong with working with what you've got right?

Have a wonderful night and I hope to see you back again tomorrow!