I love this! I have so many jean scraps left over from projects. You've inspired me!

so gorgeous, i've been looking for a tute like this one forever!!

It's beautiful, where did you get the pattern?

I am so sad that K Trimmings closed. Does anyone know if they moved their inventory to another location? I really, really regret not buying more buttons when I had the chance. WAAAH!!!

K TRIMMING CLOSED?? The horror!!!!!!!

Yay for spring break!
Reversible T-bottomed tote--
Side 1:
Vintage Raggedy Ann pillow case


Side 2:
Dad's old button down shirt (+heart buttons)


The ruffle is from a piece of the pillowcase, folded in half lengthwise with elastic sewn on the bottom.

Close-up of the fabric:

thanks for the compliments.  the blue one was a plain light blue t from walmart.  i ironed on letters randomly, cut it into a tube with a vneck in the front, sewed straps to the top and folded over a black band of tshirt for the bottom, sewed that on.  voila!

Thank you for the compliments! popsi, the stuff was all made within the last year, I just never got around to taking pictures.

Long time surgerer.
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Warning: lots of images, but no stencils.

Please excuse the anguished faces--i feel silly smiling at the mirror.
All (except #4) used to be big tshirts.
1) Dress is made out of navy and white tshirts (top half) and white tablecloth (bottom half)





2) Made out of a blue tshirt with letters ironed on and a black stretchy banded bottom




3) Gray t shirt with pink ribbon laced through and zig zag stitching




4) used to be a long sleeved top, gray v neck band is from tshirt fabric



5) Puff sleeves, rounded neck, and a little heart patch by the neck to cover up a hole





6) blue tshirt, wide neck, reversible:




pointed neck side (kind of like an asymmetrical vneck)


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Hey everyone.  I made my prom dress last year (I'm a college freshman now)--it took me a bit of time because i didn't really use a pattern.  I used teal sort of knit material, and bought a cheap pattern at walmart becasue i wasnt sure how to do bust darts.  it turned out really well!  I got so many compliments.  
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/sray/promdress.bmp
Thats basically what it looked like, sorry i don't have better pictures.  it's not poofy, very sleek sort of goddess dressy, with a halter neck.  It has a dropped banded waist which i found very flattering.  i used interfacing on the band at the waist so the dress wouldnt stretch.  I took one of my bras and cut off a strap, sewed the other strap so it was a halter bra, and then basically sewed parts of the bra to the dress so it didnt show.  it worked really well.

The mickey skirt is adorable.  I was wondering if you could post a quickie tutorial on how you made the copacabana top on your website.  is it just 2 rectangles of fabric sewn at the sides until the armpits and the top until the neck?  Thanks so much!