First up, I decided to see if smart trousers could become semi-smart pair of shorts, which involved cutting off the bottoms of the legs (leaving one gashed offcut and one perfectly fine offcut). After a bit of experimenting on the gashed offcut, I successfully managed to stitch new hems onto the trousers, turning them into perfectly usable shorts, the only embarrassing feature of which being that they now show off my unsightly legs.
Playing about with the other offcut, I realised that it could probably be made into a very neat arm binder. If I made some folded-over flaps opposite one another, I could put in two rows of eyelets and lace them together to create the desired effect. this would also enable me to take out the extra slack going from a tube intended for one leg, and make it into one intended to pin 2 arms together.
I then remembered that I had a collar that came as a freebie with a magazine (or else, I found it dirt-cheap in a novelty shop - either way, it was not being used for anything or anyone else). I realised that this could go at the bottom of the binder to make a final wrist-fastening as well. To do this, I took some more pieces of fabric from the gashed leg and made some hoops for the collar to go through.
Consequently, very little from those "ruined" trousers has gone to waste.
That is very beautiful! And practical looking. And frugal in the most mathematically elegant way.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if that is in fact dark green (and not just a trick of the camera) then it's a beautiful shade and goes perfectly with the red.
Thanks, Cereus! 4 of my favourite words in the first 3 compliments (beautiful, practical, mathematical, elegant) :-)
ReplyDeleteThe colour is a trick of the lighting: I wanted to use natural sunlight, but that meant I was outside on the lawn to set up the pic. I think the shininess of the fabric must be reflecting the green of the grass. The fabric is actually black (but black and red is a classic bondage colour combo anyway!)