ReFashion Friday: Love Edition

It’s almost time for Love Day! Ooooh, romaaaaantic!

Unless you don’t have anyone special to spend Valentine’s Day with. Then it is not so much romantic. But so what! Who cares! We can celebrate love anyway. I’ll be your valentine.  Here, I got you a dozen Roses.

HAAAAAAA!

Cracks me up every time.

 

Anyway, let’s not lose that loving feeling. Let’s have a heart-filled reFashion Friday. It can be as easy as spicing up an old sweater with a giant heart.

A giant black heart. Because the world should know that behind your smile beats a cold and deadened heart of ice. Or maybe because it just looks cool. There’s also that reason. From Havalah at Sisters, What!

 

This next one has love written all over it.

Literally, Lisa simply stenciled this heart pattern with a fabric pen!  She also cut off the sleeves and left the edges raw for a no-sew makeover. That’s my kinda jam. See it at Grey Luster Girl.

 

And while we’re going around cutting off sleeves, what do you think about this oversize sweater-turned-sweater-dress by the ReFashionista herself, Jillian?

 

She was inspired to create a sweater dress after falling in love with a red one at BCBG Max Azria. The old sweater was a perfect starting point, but she was worried that she wouldn’t have enough material left over to make the skirt long enough. Luckily she did. It was obviously meant to be, and it looks nearly identical to the BCBG dress. It’s just that the BCBG dress came with one thing her version didn’t. A $378 pricetag!

 

Here’s another look that went from shapeless to shaZAM.

So ridiculously cute! And as easy as 1, 2, 3, plus 4, 5, and 6.

1: Dye your dress. 2: Shorten the lining so it doesn’t show. 3: Cut the jacket apart and use the lower half to make a peplum. 4: Cut the jacket sleeves off and shorten them. 5: Sew the sleeves to the sleeveless underdress. 6: Alter the dress to be smaller and more form fitting.

See? SO EASY! That is, if you are a seamstress wizard like Sarah at Life is Beautiful. She says the dress is red, even though it came through as fuchsia on camera. I actually really like the fake fuchsia!

 

Here’s a refashion from Becca at Halfway To Hipster that might be more doable:

Short and sassy! I think could pull this project off; it looks like she just cut off the bottom half of the skirt.  Oh, but I see she did some sleeve finagling too, so now I’m not so sure. Worth a shot though, right?

 

Let’s not neglect the boys. Let’s get the whole family in on our Valentine’s Day refashioning funtime! Kara found this pink gingham shirt at a thrift store and thought it would be perfect for her husband and two boys.  Don’t believe me? Just watch…

C’mon! How cute is this?! That wee little baby bow-tie? I can’t even stand it.

Kara is no stranger to the refashioning game, look how she also updated this lacy pink dress:

I would buy this dress in a heartbeat! See it right here on her blog While Camden Sleeps.

Seriously I need to learn to sew. Like, yesterday.  Actually, like last year.  I’m sure I told you this sad, sad story before, but here it goes again. Last year I had a friend who is a professional, award-winning seamstress ask me to help her with a “fun little job” that required “alteration skills.” I admitted that I really didn’t have “alteration skills.” Turns out the job was fitting the costumes of the Super Bowl halftime performers. Just Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliot, Katy Perry, and Left Shark to name a few.  INSERT SAD SOBS OF SADNESS.

Let that be a lesson to you kids.  Learn to sew now, in case some day you too are asked to help sew Super Bowl halftime costumes. Learn from old Auntie Lindsey’s mistakes.

But you know what just about anyone can do? Spray paint.

Now you can feel the love all the way down to your toes with this makeover from Aimee at SwellMayde. Gold-toed heart flats, so simple and fun!

Hope you have a love-filled weekend, friend!