Thrifted: Shirts, Purses, and Plaid Fabric

Nothing is better than spending a morning with a good friend sifting through isles of used clothing until your hands feel like they are covered in dust and smell like moth balls.

DIY: Neon Fabric Spray Paint Tee

This DIY has been the first almost-fail in the history of this blog. I have seen some interesting tutorials on the web for at-home screen printing with freezer paper. I wasn't sure what freezer paper was but soon found out that I didn't have any. But it is similar to wax paper, which I did have. I found other tutorials that stated that you could use wax paper for screen printing, the only difference being that you can't directly iron on the wax paper, you have to put another material over it. I tried that and... No matter how hard (or hot) I ironed I could not get the wax paper to stick to the t-shirt. So on to plan B:

Thrifted: Fringe Top

Whenever I go thrifting, it always seems that I have to leave with at least one thing. So after sifting through racks and racks at my local thrift shop I came across this interesting crocheted fringe top. Lacy shirts are kind of my thing, and I may or may not have way too many of them. At first I loved it, but when I tried it on it was kind of Eh and the sleeves were awful.

 

But when thrifting you always have to remember not what the item is, but what it could be. With a little sewing magic, here is how I transformed this fringed top.