2019 - 'Good in fashion' garment construction

It's where you take scrap materials or clothing, and use them to make, renew or restore garments. Inspired by THIS website

Lots of fabric scraps that share a pink theme made me think, hey they'll look really great together. Go for it, and thus another summer top in the wardrobe!

A piece of cotton knit leftover from the Yr.10 ProjectT-Time. It appears to be the end of the roll, a bit grubby and stitched together in black thread. 

Initial thought, it's going out, but no, give it a wash and sustain it into a t-shirt utilising the stitching/overlocking as the hem feature! Use some spotted fabric scrap, which is left over from a shirt made a month ago, for an embellishment. There we are, another summer top. Will I ever stop!

My wonderful Yr.13 student, Sylvia, designed a cool pair of overalls for her "A Small Fashion Collection' NCEA project. She was going over-sized and sustainable...and this is her result. Heaps of old jeans, cut up, pieced together and worked in a neat pair of overalls. Top marks for renew and restore clothing! Absolutely Fab.

Now, this one isn't exactly "fashion", but it is a piece of fabric I was given.....

isn't it lovely. I came very close to allowing a student to cut it up, but fortunately it didn't occur! I got the idea, a circular table cloth is what this piece of fabric needs to be. I put the call out to the staff and lovely Emma responded. Yes, she had a circular table, so this became her table cloth...

It is so good to see fabric having a use.

Starts with a t-shirt created for a collection I put together years ago.

I removed the puffed hearts, lowered the neckline, added a piece of ribbon I had lying around my workroom studio (love using stuff up). This was undertaken during our first Covid-19 lockdown, when “Hope” was a prominent issue in our minds.

Then, a pair of Wrangler jeans, no longer so good as a bifurcated garment, unpicked and created into a skirt, with an underlayer of cool fabric a lovely member of our staff gave me.

The inspiration for the skirt came from Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons.