Homemade, Cozy Fashion

I made a birthday present for a friend of mine this week and I was very happy with how it turned out. The black is a knitted circular scarf which I've seen around quite a bit this season. The flowers are crocheted and attached to barrette clips. They work great for hair as well as on the scarf. The clip easily slips right through the knitting. 

I've seen flowers like this all over but decided that I could make my own, so I bought some felt, and elastic headbands and there ya go. This is one of the projects I was using the stash of buttons in the previous post for. 

The Old Turned New

Recently I took a skirt I had made a couple years ago and decided to alter it. It was a little hard to get up the courage take it apart for two reasons; 1. the skirt was a part of an outfit that won first place at the fair, and 2. altering it would mean basically taking it all apart, french seams and all, and putting it back together.

I wanted to alter it because I found the last couple years I didn't wear it very much because it was really long and had an elastic waist which I wasn't too fond of.

I took out the elastic and casing and shortened it from the top. I then made a yoke, and added a zipper on the side.

Before

 After

Up close of the waist band.