Take a skirt, make a dress.

These pants were comfy pj capris.  I wanted little shorts, so I cut the legs off, tapered them, then made a halter with the leftovers.

Today's halter combo.
I had some more of this fun vintage fabric left, so I combined it with some t-shirt scraps for an Austin skirt-n-shirt number.

Here is a loungy comfy dress, made from t-shirt sleeves and upside-down pants made from bamboo.

Choosing Limitation

I love to take something old, something ready for reinvention, and find its new life.

One of the particular joys I find in taking old clothes to create new is working within limitations;  I relish the requirement of using only what I find.

The tyranny of unlimited options makes my decision to simply move to the next step much more difficult.  If I can reach into a virtual toolbox for any imaginable material, I would dwell in the realm of possibilities and ideals until nothing was done.

 'Ooo, this should be satin...NO! Silk!  I am going to find the PERFECT silk.'

The simple act putting one foot in front of the other, after accepting the path I've chosen, allows me to expand fully into the possibilities provided by said path.  Thus, I find an organic process that births a creation that can never be duplicated exactly; a creation born from fully expanding into the possibilities inherent within a certain set of limitations.