Super Hero Nerd Refashion: from bedsheets to skirt

It's been a while! July, I think? I changed jobs and did 5 craft markets, which made life a bit busy. I spent a lot of time crafting things to sell and not sewing so many things for myself. Or blogging! Time to give it a go again.

You might remember the skirt refashion that I did to make my niece some superhero capes.
I started with these:

And now have these leftover:

The skirts were a bit short for me and sadly lacking in pockets. The more I looked at them, I thought they might be a bit young for me, too. The purple was too pastel for me (and the red was a better base colour). I decided to make a general nerd skirt, as I had patches from games and t-shirt logos that I could add on.

Then I found a set of Star Wars Stormtrooper bedsheets at the Op Shop fro $12 and I was inspired!

Got to keep the logo!

This top part of the sheet will make a good waist band, so I set it aside after I had cut a dress out of the fabric (but that's another post!).

I grabbed my rockabilly pattern and used the skirt as a template.

It uses a lot of fabric, so it would leave me plenty of room to sew patches onto.

But I had already cut two other skirts out of the fabric to make them for friends, so I got to use some of the Supergirl fabric from the capes to create a new panel. The more nerd the merrier!

The top of the fabric is still crinkled from when it had elastic in it! 

I pinned and sewed the patches on before I joined the skirt panels, so that it would be less unwieldy to maneuver through the machine. 

White zip for the white skirt.

It needed pockets, too, which I have decided are really required on everything. Skirts can feel so useless without them! 

But rather than add them into the seams or go any further I decided I didn't want to wear this skirt... It's sat in my unfinished pile for months now and I honestly think I'll cut it up and make shopping bags out of it instead. My sense of style has changed and I've moved away from the huge skirts for the moment.

An odd blog update, but there it is. I have finished photos of a few more things to update on posts so I had better hop to it!

Happy New Year #lovelypennypatterns

Batgirl and Supergirl Op Shop Skirts to Capes Refashions

We took my niece op shopping again the other month and had a blast. I was pleasantly surprised when she found these two skater skirts on the rack and pointed them out to me. She's still in her superhero phase at the moment.

Certainly some girl power here!

She asked me to make her something from them. Some negotiations took place: if I made her something from the Batgirl skirt, then I could have the Supergirl skirt. We agreed on a Batgirl cape and I happily paid $4 for each skirt.
A while down the track and with her birthday looming, I decided that a cape from both skirts was in order. There would still be plenty of fabric left for me to use.
I cut the first shape out of the Batgirl skirt.

And then used it as a pattern on the Supergirl skirt.

These were very easy to finish with hems on both sides and ties sewn into the seams.

One cape ready to go.

And then two!

Just needs a mask to go with the Batgirl cape now! One happy super hero.
#lovelypennypatterns