Decorating With Sequins

Once in a while I take a good look at the clothes I have in my drawers and cupboards. Often I'm surprised with what I find ,things long forgotten about appear before my eyes! A few years back I found a T-shirt in the bottom of a drawer of which I liked the colour but didn't like the cut. It was quite short so I couldn't tuck it into anything and quite wide at the bottom so it looked as if I didn't have a waist. As I stood holding it I had an idee! I could embellish it with sequins! I had bought some sequins with birthday money I had received so this was a good chance to use them.
I attach the sequins as follows. I stick the needle through the material en then through the hole in the sequin and then through a small bead and then back though the sequin and material. To do this I use the smallest quilting needle I can find. These are so thin that they will go through the hole in the bead easily. After this I make a small knot in the thread on the back of the material. Without cutting the thread I start on sewing on the next sequin a little bit further on. I started by attaching about two rows at once and continue to add rows till I think there are enough or I've had enough whichever comes first ;-)
Here's a close up photo

By attaching them in this way you don't see the thread they are sewen on with, unless you use a contrasting colour.
It looks like a lot of work but you can do it while watching the t.v. and you'll be finished before you know it!

This is the finished result

Perhaps you are now thinking, "you can attach al the sequins you want but that won't change the fact that it is too short and too wide".
Well, I have a long very thin cardigen and I wear the T-shirt under that when I go out to places where sequins are appropriate.

When my daughter was to get married a few years back she and her boyfriend had set the date for October the 1st. I had bought a very summery floral dress with short sleeves thinking I could just pull it off as the weather can still be very nice at the end of September, and beginning of October. But around that time the grandfather of my son inlaw died and they ended up going to a funeral instead of getting married and the wedding was postponed untill the end of October. Noway could I wear the dress I had bought so I went to look for something else.
I found a simple block coloured dress which I liked but because I bought it in a chainstore I was afraid that one of the guests would have exactly the same dress as I had. So I sewed a string of sequins a round the neckline which I cut off after the wedding. That way I could wear the dress during everyday life without looking as if I was going to the Oscars!