Remaking, sewing old things with their own hands for children

If there are a lot of old things in your house that are not worn for a long time, but just dusting in a closet and taking up space, why not give them a second life? In fact, sewing old things is very exciting. Many fans of handmade even specially visit all sorts of flea markets and sales in search of the material necessary to create another masterpiece.

Do not make excuses, try, you will definitely get

Very often modern moms are deterred even by the very thought of sewing old things with their own hands for children, they say, there is no machine, I can not do patterns, and in general, I can not buy a new one ...

To create a child's clothes, a new exclusive and favorite toy, an interior piece, a very fashionable accessory or decoration, it's enough just to be able to hold a needle and insert a thread into it, and everything else is just an excuse. After all, this is exactly the case when it is not skill, but desire, that is important for obtaining.

Regardless of what you want to create, sewing from old things allows you to fully express your imagination with very little money and time.

Give your child a new toy

To date, very popular handmade educational toys. They are quite expensive, and it is not so difficult to do them. Take, for example, a developing mat. Its main goal is the development of fine motor skills and tactile sensations. It is necessary to determine the most optimal dimensions, to choose the fabric for the base. If the child is small, it does not hurt to take care of the waterproof lining. That's all. Now complete freedom of action. Strings, zippers, Velcro, large and embossed buttons, various types of fabric, artificial or natural fur - all this will find use in creating a developing mat for a baby. As a result, the result is no worse than what is offered in the store, but you are absolutely sure of its quality and do not worry about the occurrence of allergies in the child because of a poor-quality filler. Whatever was created by the mother's hands - a rug, cubes or soft toys, even the grown up children will keep it all their lives, every day more and more realizing the value and feeling the unique warmth. Undoubtedly, a toy created by a mother can never even roughly compare with what was bought in a store.

Required element of children's wardrobe

On the second place after the socks, relative to the frequency of acquisition for young children, go caps. Regardless of the time of year, this headgear is required in the wardrobe of the baby. And a lot of them, as practice shows, does not happen. Panamas, kosynochki, bandanas, knitted and woolen - they can all be made by yourself, and you can use old things for this. Sewing old things and reworking old things can reveal talent and become one of the most important hobbies in the life of a young mother.

Try sewing a bag

Some ideas offered in fashion magazines are simply amazing with their simplicity. To realize most of them, you need to know at least a little about what sewing is. The alterations from old things very often look much better than the original taken as a basis.

For example, a bag. Most often, its pattern looks like a rectangle, the sides of which are equal to the expected result, to which one should not forget to add allowances to the seams. The skirt, sweater or pants literally in half an hour turn into a knitted, denim or cotton bag, and if you use for its decoration also decor elements, such as beads or ribbons, this author's work will not only be proudly worn independently, but also set For sale somewhere at a hand-maid auction.

Slippers are useful always

There is another unbeatable option for those who like sewing from old things - slippers. This can be booties for tiny legs, and cute little animals for older children, and comfortable models for an adult family member. All of them are made very simply. The main thing is to correctly measure and cut the basis for the future product. If these are slippers for an adult, you simply traverse the foot and the top is cut off with the necessary allowances on the seams, and the pattern of the pinets is very simple to do, too, independently. Decorated to the taste and desire of the creator, they will warm up on cold evenings much better than those bought in the store, and they can be used for making suede clothing, old sheepskin coats, fur coats, hats, knitted sweaters.

Everything is much simpler than it seemed

For boys with regard to clothing, everything is very simple - Daddy's shirt and trousers very quickly turn into shorts and a football for his son. Lay out the thing on a level surface, take the child's clothes, put it on top and circle the contours, making the necessary increases on the seams and taking into account the growth of the child. Cut, stitch, process edges if necessary. All! Done! You can don and rush to friends in the sandbox. And if you also make a simple application in the form of a boat or a typewriter, no one will guess that the thing has not been bought, but it has been repaired.

Sewing and reworking old things for girls is a whole epic. A small fashionista necessarily wants to look like her mother, so any skirt or blouse that has been altered from her clothes will become a favorite new thing in her wardrobe, and she should not even talk about bracelets, barrettes, brooches and handbags. Very comfortable for girls sarafan. To create it, you need old flared jeans. Given the length of the future product, you need to cut them in the region of the knees and break the internal seams. There are two identical parts in the form of a trapezoid. They need to be steamed off and swept away - the bottom is almost ready. Now look at the rest of the jeans and, depending on the sarafan model, cut the top. Most often it also looks like a trapeze. Measure the width of the straps. They can be cut out of trousers, or you can buy ready-made in a store. All parts must be well stripped and sewed together. Invent ornaments for a sundress together with a daughter.

Give a new life to old things

Sewing old things for children allows you to use not only adult things. Most often, a favorite skirt, sweater or trousers become short, and in volumes it is absolutely normal to sit on a child. You can extend the trousers by adding cuffs from contrasting fabric, the skirt with the help of frill, and the sweater can be made very fashionable, adding a fringing to increase the length of the product itself and the sleeves. And what wardrobe can you create for your favorite doll!

We go to the country

It is very important for every mother to create a so-called "country wardrobe". For residents of the megalopolis, who came to visit their grandmother or who rented a house for the summer somewhere in a cozy place, it can become a very unpleasant discovery that the number of unavailable stains that a child will bring on his fashionable clothes after the first walk. Option two - or lock it for the entire period of rest in the house, or stock up a few shifts of clothes, in which and go out on the street will not be ashamed, and at the same time not so sorry. In this case, sewing children from old things should begin to master in the winter, and in the summer it will not be a problem at all. Again, boys need a few knitted shorts or overalls from father's trousers, and parents of girls will get rid of skirts or jeans sarafans.

Experiment

In clothes for children the most unexpected shapes and models, finishes and color combinations are allowed. You can sew a contoured patch or application in the most prominent place of the soiled sweater, you can wear a denim dress that has become slightly short, trimmed with grandmother laces and mother's beads.
Reconsider your wardrobe. It certainly will find something of quite decent quality, but it has long been out of fashion, with a torn sleeve or with a spot in the most prominent place. Boldly take the thread with a needle - and go!

Mat? Why not

Sewing old things is not only the creation of a children's wardrobe. Our grandmothers also changed their clothes into rugs. To date, there are two most popular methods of creating these products, which will find their place in any home, especially in the corridor and bathroom.

In the first case, clothes of any quality are cut in a spiral into strips of approximately the same width. Just sit down to watch your favorite movie in the evening, take an old skirt or T-shirt, scissors, and by the end of the series at least one tangle will be ready for you. Then take the hook thicker and the columns without the crochet, moving in a circle, start creating. A special advantage is the possibility of knitting by parts. Day by day you will see what shape the mat gets, and adjust the necessary sizes and colors. The finished product does not dissolve and keeps the shape well. It is also very easy to take care of him. After all, washing it in a typewriter or even with hands in a basin is much easier than doing a dry cleaning of a carpet track bought for a lot of money.

If you do not know what a hook is, and even the most basic knitting technique you do not own, there is a second option. Similarly, the product is cut into strips. After you have got three approximately equal in size coil, begin to weave from the bands pigtail. The same color or different colors will be given to the needlewoman. The resulting pigtail is wound up so that something like a shell of a snail has turned out, and sew it with a regular needle at the junction points. Such a mat, if at the end of work it is still lightly and steamed, it will look simply amazing.

Excellent relaxation method

Sewing of old things, besides the possibility of creating original clothes and accessories, still perfectly calms the nerves. Give vent to your imagination, and you need for this just a thread with a needle and something already occupying a long place in the wardrobe.