This silver scarf used to be a dress I bought in the Zara sales… I had always wanted to convert it into a scarf similar to something I had seen in YSL but priced much much higher. The fabric was very slippery so I used tissue paper to try and stop it from moving too much. Now the Gold jacket was something I had made in a tailoring class. I had some left over fabric so I made a tie with it. Could be worn as a belt, hair accessory or a tie…

Hi everyone, so here's my first attempt at a twilly and my first refashion. I started with an old dress I had been gifted to refashion back when I started sewing in 2010 but I never attempted as 1) I had just given birth so I was nowhere near my final post-baby body 2) I hadn't been sewing for long so found it easier to dabble with fabric rather than feel like I was going to "ruin" a garment by chopping it up. Thanks to the twilly videos and my newer 40+ attitude of it's just sitting in a "stash" so it's no good to me there I finally tackled it. I removed the whole skirt and took two panels out as the volume of gathers really felt unflattering on my hips. I cut two strips from one skirt panel to make this twilly and still have another panel I think I'll make a wider headband with as well as the bodice to refashion. I think I'll adjust the neckline of that to make it more my style then I can wear them as separates as well as together as a faux-dress. Sorry about the lighting - typical, it's just become very gloomy here in south east England and we've had our first snow of the autumn/winter this afternoon. Wendy x

Hello! Thank you for inviting me to your wonderful community. I got very inspired by your class and actually had some leftover fabric from an Upcycled skirt that I made this summer and figured the Twilly was the perfect way to use up the rest of the fabric so that now I can proudly say that this was a true zero waste project! The skirt is an upcycled pair of jeans, which I had used the bottom part to enlarge a dress for a client (my day job is designing bespoke clothing and re/designing my clients loved pieces). I had the idea to use the top part as a yoke for a gathered skirt. The bottom is cotton poplin which I used the entire width to make each panel (front & back) so that it would be zero waste. That said I did have about 10 inches of fabric left over which is what I used to make the Twilly. Kate, I love your idea of using tassels as a way to weigh down the Twilly. I wanted to find a way to do the same thing with my scarf, but since I don’t have any tassels, I thought it could be fun to replicate the frill from the skirt as a bottom panel for the Twilly. Because I didn’t have very much fabric and also, because I thought it would be fun to try making one by hand instead of using a sewing machine, I ripped two strips of 2 inch fabric, which I attached together. I then attached a wider gathered rectangle to the bottom of the strips. All the seams are felled so that the scarf looks identical on both sides (bottom of the twilly is the selvedge). I quite like how the raw edge looks, although I’d probably want to add a whip stitch along the length just so that it doesn’t fray when I wash it. I still had a few strips of leftover fabric, so I decided to turn them into a little rosette which I can pin over the bow or use as a closure on a coat. Shout out to Betsabeh Rais, because I loved your use of a vintage brooch. You inspired me to use one of mine as a centre for the rosette. Such a fun project to make!