What’s that? Halloween was approximately forever ago?
Oh, well. I’m still going to talk about my Halloween costume because I actually did something sort of crafty!
I found I already had in my/my fiancé’s closet just about everything I needed for my costume: brown pants, brown belt, sweet leather hat, jacket. The only thing I purchased was a toy whip for around $6. (Don’t get creeped out yet, you’ll see this was work-appropriate):
Yep, I was Indiana Jones.
Except the shirt I had was an old button-down of my brother’s that my fiancé inherited and found was much too big for him. So, obviously it was WAAY too big on me.
Basically I just chopped off the sleeves, sliced each side up to the armpit and then sewed it back together, minus about 8 inches. Sadly, I don’t have any pictures of this glorious hack job, as I did it at about 10 pm the night before Halloween. Also, I don’t want you to see how bad I still am at sewing 
Thank goodness that jacket was part of the outfit, though because there was no way I was going to try to sew those sleeves back on. (Yes, it was a button-down tank top. I am nothing if not classy.)
Bonus Sewing!
I recently found out that my friend who recently made the move from PA to CA, Julia, has been sewing for a long time, so we decided we needed a sewing date.
We got to hang out for just a couple hours the other night, and got in a couple little projects.
Julia made this adorable (and comfy!) skirt out of a sweatshirt from Salvation Army:
Before and After
She chopped off both sleeves and cut them open to make 2 panels, and then cut 2 more panels copying the opened sleeve-shapes from both the front and back of the sweatshirt. The original sleeve cuffs and sweatshirt bottom hem became the waistband when she sewed them all together. That’s it! Super easy!
Sweatshirt = cute skirt! A sweatskirt!
I didn’t even know where to start with my pile of “learn-how-to-fix-this/make-something-out-of-this” things. Eventually I figured the least-scary thing to tackle was a funky tunic thing-y I have with the most atrocious sleeves that cinch with elastic at the end.
After struggling for a while with measuring and cutting, and wrestling with the weird stretchy knit fabric to get it to fold so I could pin it, I had:
Sleeves of Death!
Aaah!
Ok, no obviously they were just pinned all over the place because I’m still not confident enough to use any less than all of the pins I own. But, they turned out pretty good and I might be a little more inclined to wear it now, although it is still an outrageously 70′s little dress. We’ll see!
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