Today I am posting at the tail end of the Refashion Month Series on House of Estrela.

This is a refashion of a dress of mine that I did at one point this winter.  It was supposed to be for an upcycle contest, but I never got pictures taken of the girl wearing it.

It started out as this dress:

It’s a bit short for me.  That was the only day I wore it and it was on Halloween.   Plus it was just a bit wonky, as in poor quality construction.  The fabric was okay, but not too much on grain.  Time to make it into something for the girl!

Cute little shirt for her!

I kept the neckline and the bottom seams of the sleeves, and kept the chevron seaming of the original bodice.   I was hoping to have more of a peplum bottom on this shirt, but I didn’t have enough fabric to make that work.  Still, it worked out fairly well.

Here are a few other refashions I have done over the years:

Dress into petticoat

Adult leggings into child leggings

Dress and pants into child shirt and pants

Orange silk sweater vest into top

Black leather jacket into purse

Too short dress into skirt

Too tight top for mom into little girl shirt

Shrunken shirt into cute little girl top

Embroidered dress into skirt

Red sweater for mom into sweater for girl

If you like Refashions and getting ideas of how to repurpose old clothes, check out The House of Estrela’s series for July and enter the giveaway!