Pencil Skirt with Removable Peplum – Refashion #4
Peplum has been showing up all over the place for spring. I’ve been keeping my eyes open for anything peplum-ish at the thrift stores…but no such luck. When I came across this long, purple pencil skirt, I had planned to just shorten it. But look…
There are scraps left over! So rather than tossing them out, I tried turning them into something with a little more use. Removable Peplum.
I started by cutting the extra fabric so that I had two of the same size pieces. Starting with one piece, I folded over the edge that wasn’t hemmed and ironed a crease into it.
Next I folded over the long piece so that the two short ends were touching. Stiched this closed.
Turned the fabric right-side-in and folded it into a fan.
I then used that iron again to create more of a crease. The last step was to put a few stiches into the ‘fan’ so that it wouldn’t come apart and…
Repeat for the second.
I used saftey pins to attach them to the pencil skirt (that way I can take them off whenever.)
And there you have it! The last of my four refashions! Nothing was that difficult to do either! They just took some super basic sewing skills and a little time (actually, I did the cutting and ironing for each of the four items on one Sunday afternoon. Then I just hand-stiched in the evenings once the kids were playing or watching Seseme Street.)
Oh! And the shirt from today’s post was from here (or here)…I just took the sleeves off. Wasn’t really too found of them!
Here’s a quick little recap from the week incase you missed anything!
Are you into refashioning? Got any projects planned or in the works?? I’d love to hear about them!
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I think the removable peplum may be my favorite refashion! This is the best idea ever!
Thanks, Alicia! I was thinking about using velcro or snaps or something else, but saftey pins just seem to be the easiest way.
Such a great idea, totally doing!
Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
nice inspirations!
Such a brilliant and creative idea:) Have never really done any sort of refashioning, but I may start with this!
Gorgeous outfit, that skirt is gorgeous! Lovelovelove the removable peplum, such a brilliant idea!
How clever! I’m never sure I can pull off peplum since it can add volume in an unflattering way to the hips, but the removable factor makes this skirt perfect!
Very cute outfit and love the refashion, looks very cute
cool! I will try a variation of this and post it. nuanceandbubbles.blogspot.com