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Devina is looking for 2 patterns. (1) a skirt made from men’s neckties and (2) a skirt made from a pair of pants/jeans.
Thanks!!
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refashioning jeans into skirts is very popular, you might try those:
http://www.fashion-icon.com/fall_2001/jeansplicing.html
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf678678.tip.html
http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/jeanskirt
as for the ties – i’d just rip them, sew them together and use a normal skirt pattern, but here on craftster is a thread that might help you better:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=3859.0
hope this helped a little :)
have fun!
i seem to remember a MarieClaire Idees explanation of the jeans-to-skirt one…but i don’t have the magazine handy–i will look it up and repost if i find it.
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=4773.0
for the jeans into a skirt, if the links above don’t help, just search the web. I’ve TONS of these on many different sites (including my own, where I made a pair of bib overalls into a bib skirt, http://cowgirl53.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/how-many-things-can-you-make-from-one-pair-of-overalls/, and the post has a link or two to other blogs/websites.
There is a book on using ties, which of course I don’t remember the name of! but I just did a quick internet search, and it brought lots of links to “how to’s”.
have fun with your project!
I made this tutorial last year and used my skirt a lot during the summer. I have a feeling I’d like to make another one this year so that I have two, but in different colors.
Sorry, forgot the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mereteveian/sets/72057594131664496/