mens shirts applique tee

...another refashion with scraps!

(in case you missed it, this tank was also refashioned with scraps)

Today is my last day at Marthas Vineyard,  my last chance to wear an all white outfit,
since in New York white doesnt last white for a mere second!
...Sported with the aqua & pearls star ...

My husband has to be all dressed up for work.

...Which means a lot of crispy whites.

and because he travels all over the world, he finally found a great tailor in India that makes him gorgeous suits and shirts at a fraction of the price (I believe I gave my husband the bargain bug, yup its that contagious).

Once a year, he has a bunch of shirts made and he comes home with a lot of tiny pieces of fabric scraps... in my world this means party time!!

I made this shirt with some of the white scraps, taking the inspiration from the J.Crew "Mum Applique Art tee"..

Looking at the J.Crew detail, I cut a lot of shapes that sort of looks like pieces of an anemone, and hand stitched overlapping them over the t-shirt with a light grey thread. 

I have two of these anemone shapes: one on the bottom side and one placed vertically on the other side, just next to the arm.

I liked the idea of using different fabric and textures, in fact... I like my version better ;)

I didnt fray checked the pieces, so now that the shirt has been washed several times, all the fray edges are showing off ... love it!!

xox, d.

 will *<:) party here!

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Dvd tutorial Membuat barang dengan bahan daur ulang

Dvd video panduan membuat aneka barang menggunakan bahan bekas

Dvd panduan ini kan membahas cara membuat barang dengan menggunakan barang bekas yang ada di sekitar kita, bahan bekas ini bisa dengan mudah kita dapatkan seperti botol plastik, bekas lampu bohlam, kertas,kertas majalah,membuat perhiasan yang unik dengan bahan bekas, kertas koran, dan membuat sandal imut dan tas laptop menggunakan celana jeans yang sudah tidak terpakai.

Kreasi berbagai macam barang dengan menggunakan bahan daur ulang

Membuat vas bunga menggunakan kertas koran daur ulang

Video panduan membuat vas bunga menggunakan lampu bohlam bekas pakai

Video panduan membuat mangkok cantik dengan bahan dasar kertas daur ulang

Video panduan membuat tas gendong dengan bahan celana jeans bekas

Video panduan membuat sandal unik dari bahan celana jeans

Video panduan membuat tas laptop dengan menggunakan celana bekas tidak terpakai

aneka macam tas keren dengan bahan daur ulang .

Dan masih banyak video tutorial lain dalam paket dvd ini

Reuse recycle art - paket dvd tutorial ini berisi video dan ebook 

Untuk lebih jelas berikut daftar  isi lengkap  :

Video tutorial :

• Art recycling-Plastic bottles recycle-plastic flower
• Bentbottle-Recycled glass art by Bryan northup
• Cd recycling artwork
• Christmas ornaments from light bulbs
• Create from recycle material
• Easy recycled craft-Notes holder
• Garbage as art-recycling garbage into awesome
• How to make a vase out of magazine
• How to make basket using newspaper
• How to make modern wall art and recycle
• How to make paper bag
• How to recycle old light bulbs
• Lake erie beach glass-recycled wearable art
• Make a bowl from recycled paper
• Make a mini backpack out of old jeans
• Make a recycled glass cup from a bottle
• Making recycled jewelry
• newspaper bag workshop
• Newapaper gift bag
• Recycle old jeans into cute new sandals
• Recycle your old jeans to make a cool laptop bag
• Recycle eco art jewelry
• Recycled glass jewelry
• Recycle jewelry 1
• Recycle jewelry 2
• Recycled magazine picture frames
• recycled robot
• Recycled round tray
• Recycling art projects
• Recycled newspaper handbag
• Reuse paper reduce plastic (how to make recycle bag from newspaper)
• Robot crab- recycled materials
• sandals from an old bike tire
• the art of re-use and recycle
• Turn your jeans into earth friendly sandals
• Urthbags recycled bags.

Ebook :

1000 ideas for creative reuse

Paket dvd video tutorial

Harga Rp 75.000.-

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the girotondo tee

"girotondo"

means "ring around the rosie" in italian.

It is also the name of an Alessis collection.

yes, this tee refashion was inspired by... a tray.

Alessi round tray

This is not the first time that I took inspiration from some kind of design originally intended for the home and translated into something to wear. 

...and this is a great way to cover up several random blueberry (and raspberry too) spots on your t-shirt!

Get your patience ready, and cut out this guys shape out of an old even more messed out shirt about...  25 times. (mine is about 2-1/2" high and 1-3/4" wide)

Place the first ones on the spots and work around in circle, like they are holding hands. 

... and stitch with a contrasting thread.

Easy, peasy (but very boring indeed)

Just for fun, I left some of the "legs", "arms" and "heads" hanging passed by the hem of the shirt... just because.

I hand stitched all these little guys, but it can be done with a sewing machine, of course. But I do get anal OCD and like the hand stitch detail a lot better. Shame on me!!

xox, d.

will *<:) party here!

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