{"id":267,"date":"2014-01-21T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-01-21T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:02:31","slug":"upcycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Upcycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why upcycling clothes has only just appeared on my horizon. \u00a0I have a wardrobe full of clothes that don&#8217;t get worn for one reason or another, stacks of fabric and trimmings and I live within a five minutes walk of about a dozen charity shops. \u00a0So belated though it is, this week I took a few tentative steps towards reconstructed fashion and this was my first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the lightweight jumper and fine corduroy skirt from a charity shop, chopped them up and sewed them together again. \u00a0What fun! \u00a0It probably wasn&#8217;t the best idea to use a knitted fabric to support even lightweight corduroy. \u00a0You may be able to see from the photo that it stretches horribly when hung up. \u00a0However, it&#8217;s fine when I&#8217;m wearing it because I don&#8217;t have a straight up and down shape (!) So thanks in no small part to my hips (never thought I&#8217;d say that!) it fits pretty well as a knee length tunic to wear over leggings. \u00a0I&#8217;m generally pleased with the end result &#8211; I&#8217;m already eyeing the contents of my wardrobe for the next victims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/upcycling01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268\" alt=\"upcycling01\" src=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/upcycling01.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/upcycling01.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/upcycling01-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/upcycling01-174x150.jpg 174w, http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/upcycling01-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why upcycling clothes has only just appeared on my horizon. \u00a0I have a wardrobe full of clothes that don&#8217;t get worn for one reason or another, stacks of fabric and trimmings and I live within a five minutes walk of about a dozen charity shops. \u00a0So belated \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/?p=267\">Continue reading<i class=\"icon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dressmaking","category-upcycling","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}