Restyling Exchange 2018 // Hooded Cardigan to New Floral Summer Top

Sew Much Love Mary
by Sew Much Love Mary



I participated in my very first refashion swap this year. I had been wanting to participate in one since last year, and I was very excited when I was invited to the Restyling Exchange. The Restyling Exchange is a "global refashion swap created to promote the use of pre-existing materials in our handmade practices in an effort to reduce waste and raise awareness for sustainable fashion." For more information, click  here



Each participant sent out a garment to be refashioned by another restyler. Then, a garment was sent to us to be refashioned. It is such a fun surprise and so exciting to see what others refashioned with your garment. 



I was sent this hooded cardigan with some gorgeous embroidery. I definitely wanted the embroidery to be a main style element in the refashioned garment, and I wanted to use up as much as I could of it. I laid it out and thought out some ideas, before ultimately deciding that I would make a fun summer top out of the old cardigan. Here is how I cut the pieces and sewed it together.

I used the front of the cardigan to make the new sleeves.



I placed my pattern piece on the fold to cut out new embroidered sleeves.



I cut them on the edge, so I didn't have to hem the sleeves. :)



Next, I used the hood to make part of the back bodice.



I put my pattern piece on top and cut out 2 back bodice pieces.



I sewed the two back bodice pieces together to form the top part of the back bodice.



For the bottom part of the back bodice, I used the back of the cardigan. I cut the bodice a little bit flared out to make a slight swing style top.



I sewed the bottom part of the bodice to the top and here is how the back bodice looked like:



I had this floral fabric in my stash for months now. It just so happened to match the embroidery, so I used it for the front bodice of the top.



I cut a piece from the cardigan to use as neckline binding.



I just love how the back looked! 



I sent it off in some summer-y packaging in hopes that my refashion buddy liked it! :)

UPDATE: She loved it! Check out @ruddytocraft on Instagram to see it in action!






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