Can I refashion a thrifted men’s shirt AND make it zero waste by reusing ALL of the materials!? 🤭✂️
In today’s video, both me and Evelyn Wood are taking on a zero-waste men’s shirt refashion challenge!
The rules we set for our refashion challenge:
- Use a thrifted men’s shirt
- Use ALL of the shirt making it a Zero Waste-refashion project
- Unpicked threads, cut off slithers from the overlocker etc. do not count
- We are alloed to use 20% of additional materials – but they must be thrifted and/or from our stash
I transformed a thrifted purple & blue plaid men’s button-down shirt into a beautiful puff sleeve blouse. To make sure I used up all of the materials and created as little waste as possible I created gathers & tucks. I also made the sleeves even bigger with some creative pattern cutting and turned the remaining fabric into a ruched trim for the cuffs and collar.
Evelyn on her hand created a cute peplum top with some really creative solutions on how to use up all the scraps. I must admit I was really impressed with how her zero-waste refashion turned out. Watch Evelyn’s refashion video here!
THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
- The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolf
- Learn how to make a narrow hem with a narrow hem presser foot in my DIY furoshiki wrap tutorial
- How to Make Fabric Twine from Scraps
- Watch Vinzenco on Netflix
- Word of Honor – You can watch this show either on Netflix or Viki
- Watch Mr Queen on Viki
Do you also want to join our challenge and make your own zero-waste refashion? Please feel free to do so and if you share your refashions – please make sure to use the hashtag #refashionitall and tag both me @missmatti and Evelyn @evelyn__wood on Instagram.
