Fabric is fabric, but sometimes it’s inconveniently packaged as old curtains or a dress in your closet that you wore a decade ago. Learn how to upcycle clothes, get upcycling sewing ideas for clothes refashioning, upcycle sewing patterns and start practicing upcycling sewing with these upcycling sewing projects. You’ll be amazed at what refashioning will teach you about sewing.
This diy lion hoodie and Very Shannon Sally dress are two of the projects I’ve made for my kids of late. The dress was for Easter, though I’m just getting around to writing it up now, and the lion hoodie is the result of a challenge a sewing friend gave me. DIY Lion Hoodie One […]
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When Portia Lawrie of Makery announced that this years #Refashioners2016 challenge was denim, I couldn’t not participate in the community challenge. Between my catalog of my own jeans I’ve made and the wide variety of details collected on my Altered Denim board, it should be clear that when in comes to denim, I’m very serious
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This lace mixed media tank is one of the projects I’ve made in the past couple months post baby that I haven’t got around to writing about. It’s part refashion, part working with available materials, and a whole lotta pattern hacking in between. The inspiration for this one was this Anthropologie tank: I love how
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Every time I come across a shrunken sweater, I simultaneously die a little and do a happy dance. See, a sweater that gets destroyed in the wash is a little ball of upcycle potential. There’s so many things you can make with cast off sweaters from sweater hats to fingerless gloves, and even sweater shrugs.
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