This week’s refashion is a cotton tablecloth originally inspired by the Burdastyle bow dress. I probably should have just bought the pattern and used the tablecloth as yardage, but I haven’t successfully followed a pattern yet. Something about them confuses my brain and I don’t know why. It turned out for the best anyway, as you’ll see.

The tablecloth came from a free stuff store in my neighborhood. It’s a little shelf and clothes rack in an awesome older guy’s yard (he rides a recumbent bike with a huge flower underneath the flag, for example) where you can donate things and take things at will. My policy is not to take anything unless I’ve seen it there for a while; there’s a lot of section 8 housing mixed in with student housing, and I don’t want to take nice things when I have the means to purchase them. But this tablecloth was just sitting around for a long time and so I grabbed it one day when it looked like rain.

Continue reading →