Colorful Skirt Parade
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
It turnes out that I have a particular fondness for the same garment but in different prints ! :)
Here is a clothes line from this summer with a colorful skirt parade.
I made them all out of 100% cotton. Vintage fabrics with colorful prints. Simpel hip hugging cut with zipper in the back.
This is fun to wear! Simple joy – just a skirt to lighten up your look :D like candy!
I collect ribbons as you probably know :) and have lined the edge on some of this skirts with cute vintage ribbons – the pink plaid skirt has a cool ribbon with hearts, which I think is a gift wrap string actually – but it can withstand the washing machine :D so it works…
Don’t you long for the sun now!! I know I do!
Yours
Inger Carina
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Black dress with winding yellow flowers
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
Black dress with winding yellow flowers. Cotton/nylon blend. This dress is the most everyday-like and I use it very often. The first dress I made was a brown with a small riding helmet-print. It’s fun to choose the prints, the dresses get all so different expressions :)
I’m about to cut a new bundle of dresses but I will come back to them later here in the blog.
See you soon!
Yours
Inger Carina
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Doll Dress for Grown-ups
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, clothes
Felt the need for a doll’s dress! The combination with blue sleeves and the blue piece in the neck makes it look a bit like a Dirndl dress. I have a great fondness for all Tyrol! (cuckoo clock makes me weak in the knees) And ” Kitchen” Plaid never feels wrong :)
The belt is held in place by a loop with a flower made out of a vintage plastic jewelry part, a crocheted leaf of wool and a little orange cotton pompom. It works as a little brooch. I wash all the dresses without belts.
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Formula 1 Dress
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
Dress with Formula 1 print. 100% cotton. This is my absout favorite! I get a lot of comments from people for the funny print. :)
Detail of the belt buckle, use a punch and eyelets to make the holes.
Detail of the Formula 1 print. This makes me want to draw my own prints again!
Read more about my Summer Dress Galore sewing in this post :)
Me, in the Formula 1-dress, and my girls (in LA Lakers cheerleading outfits :D) overlooking Hollywood and Down Town LA, summer 2010
Yours,
Inger Carina
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Red polka dotted dress
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
The polka dotted dress. 100% cotton fabric. I love the little bows so I put them on everything now : )
Belt detail. Vintage belt buckle and I use a punch and eyelets to make durable holes.
Hi! This is me, feeling festive in my Polkadot dress! Image from the premiere listening of the Radio play by The Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Illosa ”Aunt Julia and the Author” now in December 2010.
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Summer Dress Galore
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
Oh I just love this dress model!!! If you remember I cut up an old dress and I changed the pattern a bit. Did so it has a higher waist and added bows and a belt. This model fits my figure and I just love it! This summer I made a total of five dresses in different fabrics. It’s so interesting to see that even though they are made after the same dress pattern as do the various fabrics that they are completely different in ”feeling”.
I have a large stash of material as you probably know by now :) and have collected lots of belt buckles, buttons, haberdashery, etc. It is always ”in my stash” where I start a project – to be inspired and see what fits together. I combine carefully buckles and fabrics to make it yummy.
Stay tuned! I’m going to post all the dresses one by one with detail photos :)
yours
Inger Carina
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
The Panties Challenge!
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
I challenged my friends over at Garderobs Reformen / The Wardrobe Reform last week to make undergarments. It was really difficult and I had to struggle a lot. In the end I made two pair of panties. They look kind of cute but the polka dot pair are not comfortable at all :) Non elastic fabric was not at good idea but I liked the 50′s feel of it.
I drew a pattern from a pair that fit well and I experimented in different materials. Folded the hem (around the legs and at the waist,) put the soft elastic under and used the zigzag from the front side of the fabric to fasten the elasitc.
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
New Wardrobe reform ReFashion project
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under Garderobsreformen, sewing
Hi!
I loved the Wardrobe Refashion project that now unfortunately has come to an end.
We are a group of crafters that started a new one on a blog called Garderobsreformen and that means Wardrobe Reform in Swedish. Under the sewing machine in the logo above it says ”Zero Consumption of clothing” which is the goal :)
The idea is to stop buying clothes and stuff you wear, for as long as you can manage. And only make new clothes from old ones or from you stash, and sharing your result & process on the blog. See the fun challenge and join in! If you want to join us just e-mail your e-mail address and the url to your web site/blog (if you have one) to garderobsreformen@gmail.com and start blogging!
But I’m going to buy nylons! haha, they are really really difficult to make! :D
I have a large stash of fabric, yarn and a lot of old clothes. It’s garments I have inherited, found at fleemarkets over the years and new pieces I never wear because they are horrendous. Now I challenge myself to make stylish nice things that I can use at my work place and at partys out of all this.
From my stash
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Do ReDo Refashion project: ragged old dress
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under sewing
Do you have a dress that you just loved (wore) to pieces? I’ve worn this dress a lot – A LOT! : -) It has turned to rags… I have a body that often don’t fit in dresses from the rack. Found a super wonderful and talented Swedish designer – Jenny Hellström – and all her dresses fitted me like a glove. AND it was all in my taste – everything! Bought a dress form every season. I’m sad to say her wonderful fashion line went busted! Bankrupt in the finance crisis! OH NO! What to do?
I cut up my absolut favorite dress, altered it a bit (like put a zipper in the side instead of buttons. Widened the skirt in the bottom to get more of an A-line skirt instead of the straight skirt that would have been difficult to walk in when I skipped the side buttons that was functioning as a slit) Used some old plastic mini belt buckles to make cute bows to replace the ribbons & made a belt with a vintage green plastic belt buckle, matching the tiny riding helmet pattern on the fabric (brown background color). 
Tags: clothes, wardrobe refashion
Fall craft theme is Clothes ~ Make & Remake
Posted by Inger Carina | Filed under embroidery, sewing
Dear friends!
I have had a longer blog-brake due to too much work. I’ve got a new job with a project at a wonderful place with super creative and talented people. This was decided very fast so I had to work nights finishing all my freelance work (& I have two kids….)
Have been thinking every day about crafting though :)
And now I’m back. This fall I’m going to concentrate on clothing because I really love clothes and I fancy some new fun garments to wear! My plans are to both sew new stuff from scratch and remaking old and boring new clothes to wearable garments.
Started off with a little ”fixing the boring new dress”-crafting with embroidery. Drew some mushroom with bows (kitsch ♥), a cuckoo clock & a dear. Traced them with white tracing paper to the fabric of the plane button-down black dress from H&M – satin stitch with DMC thread.
A couple of mushrooms down the top and a couple more plus the cuckoo clock and the deer beside the buttons at the bottom of the skirt.
Didn’t manage to take any photos of the whole dress, It’s barely daylight here when I come home from work :)
Feels good to be back Crafting!
See you soon.
/Inger Carina
Tags: wardrobe refashion
