Look in your wardrobe! Surely there are good, but out of fashion clothes. Give her a chance at a second life is easy: you simply have to use your imagination and look at the unwanted skirts and trousers new look and see new things.

How to prepare the product to alteration


When you update the clothes you must have in mind that the contours of fashionable patterns can vary significantly from those that were designed a few years ago. Therefore, for tailoring the new model will have to take some old items, or 1 item and 2-3 small cuts of fabric that will serve as finishing. In addition, be sure to take the original fittings and decorative elements. For instance, vintage buttons, unusual lace, handmade lace, or trendy iron-on transfers.

To prepare the garment for alteration, it is necessary to unpick it, carefully clean the joints from dust and lint, wash and ironed items. Then you need to inspect the fabric, cut the damaged area or cut around them with tailor's chalk, and when cutting to avoid all textile defects.

New "old" things


2 unnecessary 2 old skirts or pants you can sew a trendy skirt are cut in the year" or "newsboy cap". Importantly, things came to each other in color and texture. When cutting you need to consider exactly how the finished product will alternate wedges. You can carve out the main parts of a fabric of the same color as the yoke and insertion of a fabric of a different color.

A lot of ideas to makeover give old jeans. First of all, they can remake the shorts. It is enough to shorten jeans to the correct length and sew to the bottom of the leg cuffs of contrasting fabric. It is possible to make the original belt to make the shorts look more elegant.

Often from old jeans, sew a fashionable skirt. To redo the thing in this way, it is necessary to cut the top part of the jeans without damaging the back pockets. To get the yoke need to sew the bottom part of the skirt, cut from a new piece of cloth or other jeans.

If the old things are badly damaged, you need to cut of them are most suitable for rework stations and sewing new products directly from them. Quilting technique or patchwork wonder has millions of fans all over the world. Using it, you can create these textile masterpieces. For this you will need: ruler, pencil or tailor's chalk, sharp scissors, sewing thread and a little patience.

From available scraps must be cut into squares, rectangles or triangles of different sizes, arrange them to make interesting geometric pattern and then sew in a fabric. So you can make decorative pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, fashion bags, furniture covers and many other useful and beautiful things.