CreateAthon 2016!
Once a year, Riggs Partners (the advertising agency I do cool digital things for) has a CreateAthon. You probably don’t know what that is. It’s okay. I didn’t either until I started working for them. A CreateAthon is a 24-hour no-sleep pro-bono marketing blitz wherein we provide our services (and the services of a few other talented folks around town) to local nonprofits. What started as a small project at Riggs has become a worldwide movement. When it came time to order shirts for our recent CreateAthon, I asked for a 3x. “You’re going to do something cool with this, aren’t you?” asked my coworker. Well…of course I was.
DIY High/Low Tee
Here’s an sweetly simple refashion for a fab thrifted tee! 🙂 I found this awesomely worn-in & comfy Pink Floyd tee for $1. I wore it a few times as-is, but then decided to make it a bit more interesting. All it took was one big chop! Now I have a funky high-low tee like I’ve been seeing in Urban Outfitters and the like. 🙂 Perfect for a lazy Sunday! 🙂
Jersey Tank from Old Tees!
One of the reasons I don’t like buying sewing patterns is that once you’ve bought it and made the thing, you’re done. I mean, who wants a wardrobe consisting of the same dress over and over???? I recently bought a pattern from Burda to make this awesome dress. I thought I might be done with it, but then I remembered this sweet Kubrick tee I snagged for $1 at one of my fave thrift stores! 🙂 I hacked off the neck and wore it Flashdance-style a few times…then it became my fave pajama tee. This would not do! This tee is too nifty (and I’m too big a Stanley Kubrick…
Jersey Dress from Old Tees!
I’ve returned!!! Cue the trumpet fanfare! 🙂 So…wow I haven’t posted in a while! Without a daily deadline pushing me along, I’m beginning to understand those of you who have told me that they’ve pulled their sewing machine out, but just don’t know where to get started. That’s right. I’ve been experiencing a big mondomclargehuge case of refashioner’s block! :/ I think it goes back to the old adage said to writers who ask, “How can I make myself write every day?”. The answer is “Write every day.” I really need to get back to doing a least a little sewing every day to keep in a groove. 🙂 To…
Day 340: Hip Chicks do T-shirt Skirts!
I agree wholeheartedly with this T-shirt! 🙂 Hip chicks most certainly do do wine. 🙂 However, this hip chick doesn’t do ill-fitting T-shirts! I could have just taken it in to make it more fitted, but I really didn’t feel like wearing a tee today. It’s skirt city for this one! 🙂 I snipped off the collar of the tee oh-so-carefully! Then I pinned the sides in a bit. I stitched each side down… …and cut off the excess fabric (including the sleeves). Now that blah tee is a cute & sexy skirt! Oh…and check out the back! 🙂 Cheers!
Day 212: A’dress’ing a Too-Big Tee! :)
It seems like every time I volunteer at an event where I’m required to wear a Tshirt for said event, I always get stuck with a tee that’s a good 5 sizes larger than the one I requested. :/ This includes today, when I showed up at The World Beer Festival. It looks like Erin snagged the last medium tee. They didn’t even have smalls. :/ Luckily, I anticipated my bad luck, and came armed! I cut each of the sleeves of my tee into strips, like so: I stretched out all of the strips, and tied them in front of me. I turned the whole thing around, and was…
