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.
As the year draws to a close, I’ve been thinking about my general work habits a lot. It seems my projects are either things that can be done at breakneck speed or slow, methodical affairs that take planning, precision, and ample time. I wonder what projects in the middle of the road would look like! …
Summer still lingers here so I’m catching up on writing up the last of my summer projects before I move on into my fall makes. Earlier in the summer, I picked up a few t-shirts at the thrift store for refashions. One of them, you already saw me re-make in my Split Flutter Sleeve hack …
I’ve been waiting for Patternreview’s Upcycle Contest. It’s no secret that I love to work with upcycled materials, so I jumped on the idea of this challenge post haste. My original idea was a bomber jacket with hood for my oldest son, but it seems like a better project for fall. I went to the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In my household, we’re Giants’ fans. Though I had no allegiances to any sports teams when I got married, my husband has convinced me that baseball is a worthy thing to root for. After sitting through hundreds of hours, it finally clicked for me that I was invested in this sport and this team. It …
I think most who sew would agree that whenever good fabric presents itself in whatever form it might currently be in, it’s hard to turn away. Such was the case with this funky vintage oblong tablecloth I picked up at the thrift store for $2.50 a couple of weeks ago. As a collector of vintage …
I’m back! I can’t say that I intended to take a full 6 months away from writing here, but it happened. My family and I have been through a lot of changes in that time that’s taken time away from creative ventures. Everyone is okay now and now that I’ve been able to find some …
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. …
