How I Upcycle Kmart Mustard Jumper into a Dress

Winter is a season that drives me to procrastinate.

And if you are from VIC Australia, or at least visited here during the winter season, you’ll know exactly what I meant.

However, it isn’t good to be indoors and do nothing, or spend my colder days bingeing 20+ episodes of drama… might as well do something useful – like upcycling my old clothes.

I have this Kmart mustard-colored jumper that I bought 2 years ago (I was thrilled with it because I got it from the kid’s section), and I realized that I don’t enjoy its original fit anymore. Using many old, and secondhand textiles I’ve collected, adding with the cotton yarn that I’ve unraveled from my previous crochet project, it is safe to say that somehow, I made this project work. It took me a while to finish it, perhaps over a month of trial-and-error, mix-and-matching the textile that could work together, and the right color palette.

But in the end, it was fun. And I’m satisfied with the result.

It was a unique piece of sustainable fashion that I am proud of.

@blair.villanueva This is how I upcycled my old Kmart mustard-jumper into a dress using different kinds of textile materials. This project is very mindful and intentional, very cutesy, very demure as well while saving textile materials, and advocate creative slow fashion. #winteroutfits #sustainablemaximalism #upcycledfashion #sustainablefashion #slowfashion #madewithlove #whimsical #australiatiktok #australianfashion ♬ Life is Beautiful - Deep Music