Hello, dear lovely creators, A happy and blessed new week to you all. I hope you all enjoyed the weekend and have already started the new week with the right energy. I can already see some amazing posts pouring in the community. I love that energy this Monday morning, and will be sharing in it as well.

For today's project, I will be sharing with you how I upcycled an outdated and abandoned outfit into something chic, trendy, and elegant. I bet we all have one or more outfits we haven't worn in a long while for various reasons, it's the same for this cord lace buba (Blouse) and Iro (wrapper), It has been lying in my wardrobe for as long as 7 years without being worn after the first time I wore it for my daughter's dedication, though the fabric is beautiful, I just find myself storing and not wearing it over the years because it is not my regular style of clothing.

While looking for what to wear to church during the weekend, I decided to change the style instead of just allowing such a beautiful fabric to stay unused, So I transformed the wrapper to a flare skirt, shaped the blouse, and guess what, I paired it with a matching coloured overbust corset I already had, and a new style I so much love was formed. I see myself wearing this regularly now. I can even pair the flare skirt with another blouse.

So without further ado, let's get right into the making process

Materials Used

• Cord lace

• matching colored thread

• Silk fabric

Cutting And Sewing Process

• First, I divided my waist circumference by 3.14, which is the formula used when cutting a half circle; the answer I got will be the radius of the flare.

• Moving on, I folded the wrapper in two folds first, before folding it again in bias or rectangular form , then I cut out the flare radius and the desired length

• Cord lace is known to have delicate and fine ends, known as trimming by some. I wanted my flare skirt to have that fine hemline, so I cut out the hem from the lace fabric

• Then sewed it to complete the length of my skirt

• Then, using the silk fabric, I made a waistband out of it,

• Finally, I fold the other end of the flare and also sew in a zipper, and that completes the making process of my flare skirt.

I rocked it beautifully to church and received beautiful compliments as well.

All images used in this post are mine

Thank you for reading.❤❤