Star Wars Bedsheets refashioned into a dress (and three skirts!)

I'm going through a dress phase again at the moment, and I'm not afraid to wear interesting things to work. So when I found these Star Wars Stormtrooper bedsheets in an op shop I had to make something!

Cue favourite pattern: 

There was plenty of fabric for a full-length dress, so I folded and pinned my pieces. I wanted to get more than one garment out of it, so I didn't necessarily follow the grain of the fabric... but hopefully it won't stretch too much.

I also cheated and combined a couple of pieces- sometimes I'm lazy! It's for me, so it doesn't matter so much.

The other skirts that I cut out:

1) Rockabilly pattern, just needs the waist band on it in this photo:

Finished:

2) Rockabilly pattern for my nerd skirt, in progress:

3) Flared skirt:

Four garments out of two bedsheets is good recycling! 

Keep an eye out for the finished dress!
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Quick shirt refashion in blue and yellow

I love the colours of this shirt. I bought it to match a particular skirt, so it doesn't go with much else. It also has 3/4 sleeves, not my favourite. So it needed a refashion.

I didn't like the length of the sleeves so I removed part of them.

The shirt was also a big short in front and this was the main reason I didn't wear- don't like flashing my stomach all that much! I thought about adding the leftovers from the sleeves below, but decided not to and just left the refashion at the shorter arms.

Good to have a quick win sometimes!
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Refashion from black and white pants to skirt

Remember these pants? Well, I do wear them, but only sometimes because they still weren't quite right. In the crotch. I think if I had used a pattern when I cut them down from the bigger size I probably could have avoided this, which is a less learned for next time.

But I still love the fabric that I printed, so I decided to turn it into a long skirt and make use of all of those pockets on it.  

I unpicked the inner seams to start off with. 

There's a lot of fabric, so I didn't even have to fill the gaps. Just straighten the inner seams.

 And there we have it, a new skirt. All the pockets and none of the unhappiness.

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