Bijna 4 jaar oud is mijn Mondriaan T-shirt. Veel gedragen waardoor het mooie er wel van af was. Tijd voor een vervanging. Een T-shirt versie met ingezette mouwtjes van de beroemde YSL Mondriaan jurk uit 1965 stond al lang op mijn verlanglijstje. Het Rood Donkerblauw Mondriaan Tshirt is gemaakt van de rode cocktail jurk waarin bij de de hals en mouwzomen kleine gaatjes ontstaan door de steentjes aan en afgedankt donkerblauw T-shirt.

Almost 4 years old is my Mondriaan T-shirt but sadly it was time to say goodbye. It had seen better days so time for a replacement. On my wish list was a T-shirt version with set-in sleeves. My red cocktail dress had some small holes at the places of the stones. Together with a discarded blue T-shirt it would perfect to make a colourful Mondriaan Tshirt.

Occasionally I make useful things like a tunnel scarf or stuffed toys like this T-shirt bunny of used and discarded clothing. My latest refashion is this T-shirt. In the past my mother put old clothes into a rag bag. On regular times the rag man came along to buy the discarded clothes. My mother also had a spring balance scale and sometimes she weighted the bag to see if there was enough in the bag for the rag man. The spring balance scale now hangs in my kitchen as a remembrance of old times. When my sister and I went to primary school we made each year a new pen wiper from the discarded clothes from the rag bag. Carefully we choose selected the designs we wanted to use and drafted cirkels around a dish and cut them out with a pinking shears. The cut-out cirkels were then stacked on each other and sewed together with thread and a needle and on top came a button. My mother used to have a large box with all kinds of buttons.

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