If you read this weekend's post, you know that I went to some garage sales on Saturday with the girls and finally started sewing a few things for myself. I feel so much less pressure when something is a refashion-- because I'm not putting $$$ of fabric at risk! Case in point:
I bought this Tommy Hilfiger 100% silk skirt at a garage sale for 75 cents. It still had the tags on-- it was originally $120! In the past I would have overlooked it, being several sizes too big for me and not a great cut:
This time, though, I knew I could somehow make it great. I remembered seeing a blog post not too long ago that featured a skirt-to-top refashion, and sure enough I found this tutorial lickety split through Google. (It's in french. Put the blog address into google translate and you can read any blog, in its original format, in your chosen language. Amazing.)
The basic idea is to flip the skirt upside down so the waistband of the skirt becomes the waistband of the top. (I know, weird, right?) I'll give you a quick step-by-step, but here is the after:
I have been pinning all sorts of stripes and chevron patterns to my Pinterest board recently, so this fits right in! It's sort of a sassy top-- quite loose fitting, slides off the shoulder sometimes, so I'm wearing a cami underneath.
Here's the back:
There's the zipper peaking out the bottom. Rather than cut out armholes, I just created fold over peekaboo sleeves:
I made up a quick pictorial of how I made this top, just in case you want to give it a shot! Feel free to take this image and adapt it to your liking. Link me up if you make a skirt top of your own. :)
Hubby took the photos again this time-- he always makes me laugh. A husband should always make you laugh.
You look like totally fantastic in that shirt! It's like it was MADE for you...oh wait...it was. ;) ;)
Posted by: emily (justem) | May 16, 2011 at 03:07 PM
It looks wonderful! I am sure you will get alot of wear out of it. Quick request...could I just see a little bit of my granddaughter's cute face when she has to hold up skirts/shirts/etc.? :)
Love you, Mom
Posted by: lorraine ksich | May 16, 2011 at 05:22 PM
wow, this is SO stinky cute. :)
Posted by: Heather M. | May 16, 2011 at 07:58 PM
This is SO crazy adorable! Love!
Posted by: Keshet Shenkar | May 17, 2011 at 07:50 PM
ok this is amazing - i cannot stop looking at it!
Posted by: virginia | May 18, 2011 at 09:45 AM
Nice! =)
Posted by: HilLesha | May 18, 2011 at 05:38 PM
Love this top! Beautiful.
Posted by: K. The littlest Crafter | May 19, 2011 at 04:44 PM
That is soooo great! I love it! Time to start looking for too-big silk skirts when I'm thrifting.
Posted by: Krista | May 19, 2011 at 05:25 PM
That shirt is fab! I'm definitely featuring this!
Posted by: Andrea | May 21, 2011 at 12:14 AM
Very cool! Love love love this top!
Posted by: Melissa | May 21, 2011 at 01:41 AM
i LOVE this shirt! Gotta find some material so I can make one myself!!
Posted by: Re-Create with L.Lane Designs | May 21, 2011 at 08:50 AM
Wow, I love the shirt! Thank you for linking to my party!
Posted by: Tea Rose Home | May 21, 2011 at 08:00 PM
Amazing! Thank you for sharing. I cannot wait to go thrifting to see what I can find so that I can borrow your tute!!
Posted by: Amy M. | May 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM
I love that top... Very cute! I can't believe what you can do with a skirt.
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Posted by: Hannah McConnell | May 25, 2011 at 11:42 PM
so cute!!! Great idea
Posted by: Jill | September 10, 2012 at 09:07 PM