Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dress. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Zero-waste dress

How do highly creative people continue to innovate and 
express themselves in new ways?
They’ll tell you the key to their success 
is a commitment to trying new things.
So I tried something new
by making a dress out of recycled materials.


What you need:
Plastic bags(colours of your choice), 
cellotape, 
plastic carpet underlay, 
something to attach the garment with.
A pattern for the dress.
scissors




Cut little squares out of the plastic bags.



Make little flowers out of the squares and tie them with cellotape.




Cut out a pattern for the dress.  
Attach the flowers in your preferred pattern to the underlay 
before you attach the front and the back. 
(It is very hard to do once the garment is attached, I found out the hard way)


My mom was the inspiration for this dress. 
She loved flowers, colours and pretty little things, and she never backed away from making things from 
previously loved or recycled materials.  We may not have won first prize, but we gave it our best shot!!!

Monday, 3 August 2015

Sugar and spice and all things nice

My latest project was creating six dresses for 'Wendy', from 'Peter Pan'.  It was a new experience for me, as I usually make garments for grown ups, but these were for Primary School pupils.



Sunday, 7 December 2014

Upcycle an old skirt into a cute dress.



Yesterday, I decided to make a dress from a skirt that was given to me.  It was not exactly my style, but the fabric was divine.   So I got some inspiration from a Vintage pattern, and this is what I came up with.


Saturday, 17 November 2012

Currently in the Willowbridge shop

 As per request of a few of my clients for some more pictures of things that I do, here are two more items that I made during this month.  I promise I will take more photos of the different orders I get in the future.

The grey top was a nice new challenge to get the lines to match perfectly in the front, but I was quite happy with the outcome.


The turquoise dress is one of many different prints and colours that was ordered, and I am currently busy with a few more.  With this one the challenge was making the pattern, but the clients are definitely loving it.

You are welcome to go view and fit these in store.