It would be interesting to know how much time we spend each week attending to our clothing requirements in terms of trying, buying, preening, storing, washing and perhaps sewing, resewing or mending.

Over Easter I had a spring clean of my wool wear with southern winter approaching and was pleased to find most in good order and only two moth/silverfish munches to be found.

With Fashion Revolution Day April 24 asking Who Made Your Clothes? it is particularly interesting to look closely at the labels and reflect on who originally made the clothes I’m now upcycling.

The upcycle I’ve chosen as Sew 112 is a wool history skirt which I made last year from eight panels cut out of various reject jumpers and sewn together as a gored circle skirt. The waistband is formed from the bottom of a coral-coloured skivvy. To the remaining top part of that skivvy, I added the bottom of another skivvy whose sleeves then become a scarf. I mended a small hole that had developed in the skirt over summer by zigzagging another piece of lacy-knit wool on top of it. The photos below show some of that process, but a workshop is the best way to learn about making history skirts. If you live in the Biloela Queensland area, you can join our workshop there in June 14-15.