Recycling An Old Dress Into A New Short

Happy new week everyone, greetings to every needle worker , how are you all doing? Today's episode of needlework is that of recycling. So have you ever recycled an old clothing into a new one? I know a lot of people must have done that before. How we turn our favourite worn out dresses into some other useful things like rags etc. But in this case I am not talking about worn out dresses or turning them into rags, I am talking about clothing that could still be worn and which is still very much useful. For today, my submission is an old dress I recycled into another useful clothing. So I recycled my old gown into a short to be worn at home. The old dress no longer fit so instead of just discarding the dress which was still very much fine and lovely, I decided to recycle and reuse it. Looking at how the colour of the material was still very much intact. I will be showing you without wasting more time how I recycled my old dress (gown) into a new short # Materials Used * Old gown * A pair of scissors * Pins * Marking chalks * Ruler * Measuring tape * Elastic * Thread * Razor ___ ___ # Procedures What did I do first? Ofcourse I started by losening the old gown, every part of that dress was loosen and all pieces detached and separated. ___  ___ After detaching and piecing the gown, I spread it out and used part of the gown to make a new folding to mark out my measurements for the short I intended to create out of it. I took a while trying to figure out if the measurements would fit the folded fabric, I mean it's an old fabric so I had to strategically determine the measurements on it so I don't waste the fabric since I wouldn't have another to replace if I were to make any mistakes. ___  ___ After making the appropriate markings and measurements on the fabric, I cut out the marked and measured parts, that is the front part of the short, which I later placed on the second part of the old fabric to make the back cutting of the short. ___  ___ I wanted to use elastic for the waist band so I added extra 3 inch allowance to the main short when taking my measurements I also measured the appropriate inches of the waist band according to the measurements on the main fabric and not just my initial waist measurement, this is because of the extra inches added to the waist. ___