Welcome to Thrift & Stitch!

Welcome to Thrift & Stitch! I am so excited to share my love of thrifting. I have always been a penny pincher and proud of it. I can honestly say that 90% of what I wear comes from a thrift store, yard sale or sale rack at department stores (I never pay full price). Now I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, although I may save alot of money I was not always this way. I have always checked the sale rack at department stores before looking at anything else (good rule of thumb), but if someone told me a year ago that I would start shopping for clothes at yard sales and goodwill I would have thought they were crazy.

As most people I love a good deal, but the thought of clothes that were worn by someone else just erked me and honestly grossed me out. The day it all changed for me was when I came across a girl on pinterest (cannot remember her name) who said that when you thrift for clothes remember that you can always take them home and wash them. Genius huh? I thought why didn't I think of that, so simple yet its exactly what I needed to hear to get past my complex of pre-warn clothes. So that week I went to my favorite thrift store and instead of going through furniture, nick-knacks and etc I went straight for the clothes. While looking at them I started to fall back into my old ways of thinking "gross" these clothes are "old" and warn. Then I remembered what that smart girl said and started to look at the clothes as if they were brand new. I found that there are ALOT of good clothes just sitting around in thrift stores waiting to be found. I also found that there are alot of clothes that just need some updating to restore their beauty. So I started to bring piles of clothes home every week and dragged the sewing machine out and started "fixing" the "ugly" outfits. It was like a challenge. Like, can I really make this look nice?

Well I did it and it kinda became an obsession. My advice to anyone who wants to start refashioning old clothes is to start simple. Find a basic dress that you think would be easy to make over such as: shortening the length, cutting out the arms or just taking in the waist. All those things are pretty basic and don't require to much extra knowledge in sewing. I am in no way highly  knowledgeable in sewing, but I enjoy it; so it's easy when you enjoy it.

Below you will notice some pictures. This is just a taste of what I do. Before and after pictures of a thrift store dress that I bought for $1.00. YES, I just said that! I am very proud of how well it turned out and the best part is it's thrifty & fashionable!

BEFORE...(ignore my terrible model skills)

 AFTER!! I removed the sleeves, they were obviously too much and I shortened it, but gave it an angled affect, short in the front long in the back (mullet dress).

This dress was by far one of my best finds, come to find out it was hand made and very well might I add, almost didn't want to change it, but for wearable purposes I had too. I hope this inspires you to go out and thrift and maybe even pull out the ol' sewing machine! Keep it thrifty!


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