Repurposing Old Clothes

My latest craft project has to do with repurposing old clothes.  I have a ton of old clothes - most of them have some sort of hole in them.  They are taking up my hammock space and that's my little reading room.  I kind of gave up on the hammock when I started to work at Subway and it became a shelf for all these old clothes.  My resolution tonight is to find a project for each of them.  I already have a sweater that I want to turn into a skirt and a shirt that I want to turn into a bag.  Wish me luck.  I'll try to take some pictures so ya'll kinda know what I'm doing.  My phone is acting weird, so we'll see if I get any of the photos.

Update:!  Got my phone remastered.  I pretty much hate my phone.  I do not treat it like a little angel.  It is a machine.  Maybe I should, I know a lot of people do. But now it works!  I'm going to try to be nicer to my phone in the future.  It works for me!

I have decided to mend this hideous green dress, where the strap came down, on some of the old clothes, I could not find holes, so just rehung/folded them.

 This is a purple shirt on a purple bed, that I plan to make into a bag/tote. The pink ribbon for the very small hole.  I got this recently from Goodwilll.  

 

 This is a detail of the hippie embroidery that I loved on the shirt

 This is a detail of the ribbon on the shirt

 Here is the hideous blue and green dress.  That is the tear in the fabric.  

 Here is the dress

 It's from Pink Apple, I got it from Fallas, near the mall, in 2011.  

 These are details of the sweater.  Sweet Margaret Obenigba got it for me cause I have a problem with my pants falling down.  It is extra long for that reason. 

 I plan to get it some lining and something for the waist and make it into a skirt.  It's the most complicated project, so far.

 Love me some pastel rainbows!  I think I got this from Target in 2016.  

 Here is the tiny hole.  

 A bit bigger!

 You can barely see it!  But I know it's there!  I'm going to cut a swatch off the bottom and make these pants shorter and sew the patch onto the butt of the pants where the hole is located.  

Some banana pants.   I'm going to hem the bottoms. I've had these forever.  I hated them because they had stretchy cuffs at the bottom and were too short.  I cut a slit in them, but they just frayed and were overall hideous.  How can I get rid of banana pajama pants, though?   They'll make cute shorts.  

Update 12/07/18: I still have all these projects to do.  

A Great Charity to Drop Off Baby Hats and Other Knit and Crocheted Items in the DFW Area

Found a fitting home for my spare knitted baby hats.  Feels good to donate something I don't need to someone who could really use it.  

This is a great foundation that takes mostly blankets, but also takes knitted hats, scarves and blankets for all sizes of patients. 

http://www.warmupamerica.org/parkland

Mail baby blankets to:

Warm Up America! Foundation
c/o Parkland Babies
3740 N. Josey Lane, Suite 102

Carrollton, TX 75007

If you are in the Dallas area and would like to personally deliver your baby blanket or other knitted or crocheted donation, please contact Ann Foster or Lisa Little at Parkland (214-590-8827) for drop off information.

For the latest updates about the Parkland Call for Donations, visit us on Facebook.

So if you are like me, and have an abundance of knitted things lying around that you don't use, send them to the address above or drop them off to help warm a patient in need.