Clothing | The TygerLily

The recycling and redesigning the women’s tapestry jacket was rather difficult, if I were to tell the truth. Even though things look one way in your head, accomplishing that goal can be a whole different chore. But the jacket has now been completely disassembled and reassembled into two useful items. Here is the tapestry jacket’s photo history…….

Sleeves cut away from jacket and splayed for cutting (in previous post)

The completed iPad cover made completely from the sleeves of jacket (in previous post)

Jacket body formed into a tote - items to complete are only laying on body. Handles, magnetic closure, black belting....

Professional tote/iPad cover set - not sure how to set this up to photograph decent.

Complete tote from tapestry jacket showing off its true color outdoors.

I lined it with a gray embroidered satin lining and couldn’t resist to put a final little touch to its closure – a silver leaf. As soon as that went on, it truly had my name on it. Not sure what will happen with this yet as Bill thinks I should be the one to enjoy this one. He’s one of my biggest supporters, but if this could sell and make a couple of bucks, then that’s what we have to do.

Thank you for stopping by and giving this a final look over! One day it may make it into the Etsy store, but until then I’ll enjoy looking at it and thinking of ways to improve on the upcycling and repurposing of the great thrift store finds we have in our possession. Yep, there is a whole tote full of beautiful sweaters, jackets and suit coats to re-fashion.

Happy Monday and happy crafting everyone!

So now we have FOUR aprons completed and only one left to sew. That’s the pink one. But it’s ready whenever I decide to put pink thread in the machine. And when I was rummaging around today, I actually found labels that had my name on them, and not TygerLily, which is great because theses aren’t my original designs. Sew (tee hee) here is the line-up so far……….

"Muffin" and "Coffee" Apron

"Baking" and "Herbs" Aprons

I am extremely happy with all four of them. But how do you FOLD an apron? And especially for gifting? Do you just let people open their gifts and look at them this way? Come on, someone get creative and show me a fun way to show these off.

A friend at work heard my story about not sharing my peacock feathers that’s on display in my home with one of our granddaughters. So she brought in MORE feathers for me so I can make fun pen tops for Raegan for Christmas. (And not disturb the ones I already have.)

Peacock Feathers

And lastly today, one more HUGE hurdle was accomplished – and that is my first American Girl clothing project. I felt just like I was back in David City, sewing my Barbie clothes in my mom’s sewing room; rummaging through her scrap piles of fabric; trying to make the coolest clothes for my doll because we weren’t allowed to buy doll clothes. But then again, she knew there wasn’t anywhere in town to BUY ready made clothes! We made do, and I adored every minute of it, even those teeny tiny ice skater skirts! HA So here is my attempt at an 18″ doll outfit…..

Play Outfit with Scarf

This is a 5-piece outfit, folks! And it’s complete! Shirt, capri pants, bolero, play dress and scarf. And it was the most fun I’ve had in a long time. Can’t wait to see it actually ON a doll. :)

note to self: never ever EVER buy the amount of fabric the patterns call for or you’ll have enough to make a quilt with what’s leftover.

Christmas is coming!!!