So for those who don’t know, I am a member of the Crafty Foxes, a super-fantastic group of gals who meet every couple of weeks to eat, drink, hang out, and work on whatever random crafty type stuff we’re doing at the time.
We also have craft swaps every couple of months, with a different theme each time. Two months ago, we started our latest swap – reconstructed tshirts. Everyone who was taking part gave an old tshirt of theirs to another swap participant, who then had to turn said tshirt into something else over the course of the two months. Then tonight, we had our end-of-swap meeting, where we all hung out at Katipo Cafe (gotta love those red walls!) and handed back the tshirts, in their new forms.
For the swap, I got given a tshirt from the lovely Teresa. Pale grey marle, with a pegasus print on the front. Teresa told me that she loved the print, but not the colour. So, I decided to turn her tshirt into…. a different tshirt. Yes indeed. I found some great black-and-white-striped tshirt fabric (coz Teresa is all about gothic 1950’s style), which I used for the front and back of a new tshirt. I then cut the pegasus print out of the front of her old tshirt, and added it to the front of the new tshirt. I made the sleeves out of the back of her old tshirt, and after that sadly there wasn’t enough fabric left over for me to turn into anything else overly interesting….
My other swap partner (the one who was making something for me) was the also-lovely Natalie K. I handed her one of my old breast cancer awareness tshirts, which though I loved, was too short. Black thing, with big pink cartoon daisys on it. Tonight she gave it back to me in it’s new form – a pair of sleeves! Which are ultra-cute. They’re long (halfway up my bicep) and have thumb holes, and each has a daisy on it whose cartoon face sits on the back of your hand. So cute! I loves them lots. 🙂
Here are some pics of the creations I made and received….
Modern Vintage Cupcakes 